Limericks

[Jelfish]

Make a limerick! (http://www.ehow.com/how_3332_write-limerick.html)


This evening I'm not quite enjoying
This boredom, to me, is annoying.
So let's pass the time
with lim'ricks sublime
Cause valuable time's for destroying.

[DBXP]

Oh how I love pie
But if I eat anymore, I might die :(
Oh my word
This is absurd
This limerick sucks..i

[Jelfish]

Oh how I love pie
But if I eat anymore, I might die :(
Oh my word
This is absurd
This limerick sucks..i
DBXP, What a shame!
That "limerick"? Incredibly *lame*.
It's cause for concern.
You'd sure better learn.
This isn't just merely a game. :mad:

[DBXP]

DBXP, What a shame!
That "limerick"? Incredibly *lame*.
It's cause for concern.
You'd sure better learn.
This isn't just merely a game. :mad:

WOW! :eek:

[Jelfish]

It's all in the rhythm, you see
Each line must flow musically
Each accent in time
Must line up just fine
It's lots of fun, I guarantee!

[Jelfish]

Is anyone else gunna try?
if not then I might start to cry
This isn't a joke
I'll threaten to croak!
Well, actually that was a lie. :D

(if you need help, try using a rhyming dictionary (http://www.rhymezone.com/) and a thesaurus (http://thesaurus.reference.com/))

[Jelfish]

My stomach is sounding quite rude
It's rumbling, begging for food.
Must find me a snack...
I'll soon be right back!
For pizza, I'm sure in the mood..

[ladyjanewriter]

Note: I have the right to delete any limericks containing the word "Nantucket." *g*

[Jelfish]

I've finished my small midnight meal
and sleepiness now I do feel..
The time's opportune!
I'm hoping that soon
A lim'rick for us you'll reveal


Good night :D

[Jelfish]

Note: I have the right to delete any limericks containing the word "Nantucket." *g*

(ok one more :D )

With subtlety there is an art.
In lim'ricks they sure play their part!
"A man from Nantucket"
will sure run amuck, it
lacks wit and finesse that I <3

:D

[DBXP]

GOD writeing a lim'rick is impossible!!!
But watching Jel, he's unstopable!!!
I can believe it!
Eh, maybe I'll leave it..
I'm gonna go watch Kim Possible...

I swear I have no idea how you guys do it!

[DBXP]

GOD writeing a lim'rick is impossible!!!
But watching Jel, he's unstopable!!!
I can believe it!
Eh, maybe I'll leave it..
I'm gonna go watch Kim Possible...

I swear I have no idea how you guys do it!

I kinda cheated with that one :rolleyes::cool:

[saintlike_ontheoutside]

wow does it just have to rythme i swear i would would give any amount of money to be able to talk like that all the time non stop lol mabe $50 ok a penny but so want i want to really bad

[Jelfish]

The rhythmic pattern is key. After you've read enough of them, you should get a sense of how they flow. The first, second, and 5th lines have either 7 or 8 syllables (the first seven are the same), but those three must have the same exact rhythmic pattern as the first. Listen to the stresses.

la LA la la LA la la LA la
"this EV- 'ning i'm NOT quite en- JOY- ing"
"this BORE- dom to ME is a- NOY- ing"

The third and fourth lines are similar, except they are only half as long in time. If that makes sense, then all you have to do is find words that fit that pattern and construct several lines with a specific rhyming scheme.

Another way to think about it is in musical measures. Each stress is a quarter-measure beat in 12/8 time, except in the third and fourth lines, which are 6/8:

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x86/jelfish85/limerick.jpg

[ladyjanewriter]

To think like this, tho, makes me crazy -
my Dad thought that it was a phase-y.
He hoped I'd be half
as good with my math.
But unfortunately, I'm just lazy.

ThreadBanger's an amazing scene
for making of fashion that's green.
We cut, stitch and sew,
and we knit, purl - and so
we post all our work on a screen.

There was a ol lady from Chi-Town
with fashion she wanted to git down.
She wrestled her bobbin
until she was sobbin'
And her sewin' she began to throw-down.

[Jelfish]

I'm sorry to hear that Miss Jane.
Your father is surely insane.
Well, I think it's great
that you can relate
to lim'rick disease of the brain.

ThreadBanger is simply the best.
Their videos beat all the rest.
Though I'm not so keen
on clothing just green
But then again, I'm not well dressed..

Chicago seems like lots of fun.
The wind, I hear, there is a ton.
But Boston is better
though maybe it's wetter
And still marred by construction "Big Dig" that cost 14 billion dollars and resulted in a leaky tunnel with poorly attached ceiling panels that fell and killed a poor woman and subsequently caused traffic on I-90 east to become insane for weeks! :mad:

[Cacophany_cat]

Not an original limerick, but it's one my mom sings to the grandchildren lol

A boy stood on a burning deck
with a pocket full of crackers
a spark flew up his trouser leg
and blew off both his nackers

[ladyjanewriter]

Chicago seems like lots of fun.
The wind, I hear, there is a ton.
But Boston is better
though maybe it's wetter
And still marred by construction "Big Dig" that cost 14 billion dollars and resulted in a leaky tunnel with poorly attached ceiling panels that fell and killed a poor woman and subsequently caused traffic on I-90 east to become insane for weeks! :mad:

^^^ I think you kind of broke with the rhyme scheme on the last line. :D

Chicago is always quite fun
- at least, for those three days of sun!
Those three days, we're doing
Some great barbecueing
-tho our un-tanned rumps block out the sun.

And "nackers" heheheehehehe

[Jelfish]

GOD writeing a lim'rick is impossible!!!
But watching Jel, he's unstopable!!!
I can believe it!
Eh, maybe I'll leave it..
I'm gonna go watch Kim Possible...

I swear I have no idea how you guys do it!

Your lim'rick skills seem to have gained
Your form sounds less plainly untrained ;)
The rhythm's in thirds.
Try different words
And soon you will sound less restrained.

[Jelfish]

Not an original limerick, but it's one my mom sings to the grandchildren lol

A boy stood on a burning deck
with a pocket full of crackers
a spark flew up his trouser leg
and blew off both his nackers

Hah! I can just imagine an older woman saying this in a stern voice and ending it with "So, children, don't play with recreational pyrotechnics or you will mutilate your genitalia!"

[rexanimatrix]

This thread is really quite crazy,
In fact, It's made my brain hazy.
And my laughter has rung
through the house; far-flung
But my relatives now think me zany!

[Plasma]

It seems jelfish overtakes,
the limericks everyone makes,
So I will cause a stir,
cause my limericks are sure
to give poor jelfish the shakes!

[Plasma]

As you see, others aren't as good,
at rhyming as well as they should
They are only so so,
and their poems do not flow,
So I hope people learn from this limerick I made.

[Jelfish]

I don't mean to sound like a jerk
Those limericks sure are hard work
For me it's a schtick
to act like a *smurf* ;)
Replies to this thread are a perk :)

[Plasma]

I wish for this thread to succeed.
And it's poetry will always lead,
the way for the cats,
who like all the chats,
and fill the art crave that we need.


That made no sense.

[Jelfish]

I won't let this thread go away!
I'll post a new poem everyday!
Unless I am ill
or target for kill,
my limerick thread's here to stay.:)

[Plasma]

I will help in that very fine quest,
to make this thread the best,
I will type, I will feed,
and rhyme til I bleed,
And put others skills to the test~!

[Jelfish]

Thank you, dear Plasma, ol' friend.
For lim'ricks we both comprehend
the incessant need
for rhyming, indeed
insanity we do transcend.

[saintlike_ontheoutside]

You people are really way too good
I hide my shame beneath my own hood
That i did my ownself
Its best for my health
Well this is it, its the best that i could

[Plasma]

Very nice poem saintlike,
You can even do it on a mic,
rhyming is simple,
like popping a pimple,
And can even be done by a tyke!

(as in toddler) (a young tyke)

(Oh, lookit that young tyke!)

[ladyjanewriter]

My frustration surely is mounting
Upon this job I'm really counting.
But my 'rythmetic
skills make me quite sick.
I wish I was good at accounting!

***Thought of another one while heading to the work kitchen. I was able to write this in my head in the time it took to go there and back. It's scary.

I really am in quite a quandary!
Today, I don't wanna do laundry!
I'll put it in a tin,
toss that in Lake Michigan,
And then I'll have to run around naked and then probably get fired from my job for that no that won't work I guess I'd better do my laundry.

[saintlike_ontheoutside]

Thank You plasma so very much
For the very nice words and such
I know im not great
but jeez give me a break
To my rhyming book i still clutch

[miss.green.tea]

i find this thread very amusing
though for some it may seem quite confusing
i just hope that my skill
is not terribly ill
at this rhyming that we are all using

eh i think its okay for 4 hours of sleep...

[Jelfish]

I really am in quite a quandary!
Today, I don't wanna do laundry!
I'll put it in a tin,
toss that in Lake Michigan,
And then I'll have to run around naked and then probably get fired from my job for that no that won't work I guess I'd better do my laundry.

:D

I too have some laundry to do:
a pile that took weeks to accrue ...
I'll just look away
so I can delay
while new thrift-store clothes I'll pursue

[ladyjanewriter]

Guess who is still in a quandary?
And, guess who did not do the laundry?
You may ask "Wha Happen'?"
Before, I was nappin'
And damnit I'm really screwed this stupid laundry's not gonna do itself and now I'm up at 12:51 like a total idiot - Aaaaaa!

***Edit:

A happy young gent name of Pino
Once had himself way too much vino.
He went to the bar,
ordered some Pinot Noir,
And said, "Why? 'Cause it's named after ME-no!"

^^^ I read too much Ogden Nash as a kid.

[zany.gaugh]

urm.... this is creepy.
but so entertaining.lmao

[saintlike_ontheoutside]

Tommorow I'm off to work.
With my face lacking it's smirk.
I'll be oh so weary
And quite possibly dreary.
For I am a unhappy shop clerk.

[lucasfan123]

ooo i made this one last year for school

bob the tomato ate
and never was late
went to school
stinks but cool
and never ate cake!

[Human]

well jelfish I am impressed
you surely are uniquely blessed
you started this post
with limericks utmost
it seems we're all obsessed

[saintlike_ontheoutside]

Well, I really did miss this thread.
Without it I might lose my head.
It made me feel better,
While writing a letter
I might just have toast instead.

WTF? IDK. LOL. LMAO. ROFL. ROFLMAO. OK, that's enough. I get it. I'll stop. Now.

[Kathmonkey]

A limerick, is it? No way!
Here's my contribution today,
I'll rock and I'll rhyme,
'Til I'm covered in slime,
And the aliens take me away...


My daughter's a beauty named Jess,
But, blimey, she makes such a mess,
She covers the floor,
'Til she can't reach the door,
But she's so cute I just say "Aw, bless!"


EDIT: Here's another one, but I didn't write it, I just want to flout the 'Nantucket' rule... :D

There was an old man from Nantucket,
Who kept all his cash in a bucket,
His daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nan took it!

[blueknewtheshoe]

This sure is an interesting thread
Each page I have thoroughly read
Now I try on my own
So one day I might pwn XD
And more will come out of my head!

[ChaosxxCarly]

I hate writing poems that rhyme.
It seems like a big waste of time.
They're boring and lame,
They sound all the same,
And put a big strain on my mind.
(could you tell by that last line??)

[crafty.rebel]

i have so much work to do today
today is a day of all work and no play
although i waste time
i still have time to rhyme
man, i still have a lot to say...

[caitlyn]

my new school is surely not a yawn.
but i've been up at the break of dawn.
its high school you see.
that means more work for me.
but at least this new school has a lawn.


okay sorry. that was horrible.
heres a better one:

there once was a woman from france.
who never learn correctly to dance.
but she twirled round and round.
and jumped all about.
and created the dance of the pants.

(hahaha. i wrote that years ago. =]])

[caitlyn]

i do love a good limerick.
how can it make you all sick?
by the irish it was made,
thanks to all of us it has stayed,
and carried the culture of mick.

hahaha wow oh my gosh.
when it comes to these poems i'm just squash.
but i wanted to say
something bout the Irish cliche
but it didnt sound very posh.