Limerick Game

[Thistle]

It's a thread that I hope will delight.
Pairs of verses you type as you might;
Leave the finishing three
To another, you see,
Who another beginner will write.

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So then, to perchance break the ice,
This couple of lines would be nice?

[DakotaF.]

It's a thread that I hope will delight.
Pairs of verses you type as you might;
Leave the finishing three
To another, you see;
Then another beginner he'll write.

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So then, to perchance break the ice,
This couple of lines would be nice?

For to write a limerick takes skill,
and a certain strength of will,
to not write something that would get you killed! 
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There once was a group called Celtic Woman,
whose members were constantly moving,

[Thistle]

from the States to Japan
and to every fine land
their all-around loveliness proving.


Oh someday when I reach the sand
Of sweet Caledonia land,

[fireyred09]

The beauty of the land o'er there
will cause a multitude to stare,
Now, wouldn't that be grand!


I saw an old fellow walking;
he was wearing only one stocking!

[Mierna]

He couldn't afford
To speak one word
For he knows the way of mocking!

I know of a lady named Lynn
She is graceful with her big grin!

[KiernanKate]

Which reaches across her chin
I surely would like to win
A chance to someday meet Lynn


There is another few girls
Who are wonderful at twirls

[Thistle]

spins, axles, & leaps,
chirps, grace notes, & peeps,
and wonderous laser-light swirls.


A fiddler whose name was Mairead
leapt all 'round the stage as she played...

[fireyred09]

Light as the air,
as she danced everywhere,
Ah, such a sweet sound she made!

Take me away to a place
that's encircled with beauty and grace...

[Méav_4EVER]

Where we can see Méav's face
and cure ailments of the human race,
with the pure sound of her voice!

On the way over there,
I met a woman that gave me a stare...

[Kimberly AJ]

Chloe is so romantic to me.
She sings my favorite rhapsody
That I really always know.

I have her in my heart
And I hope she will not break apart.

[Mierna]

A harp Orla played
And the way she swayed
She is truly an angel from the start.

Someone came to us.
It was Lisa on a bus!

[fireyred09]

Starbucks in hand,
she was really quite grand,
Seeing her there was a plus!

Musical, rhythmic beats
from Ray and Nick are quite a treat...

[OldFatGuy]

Off topic, but only slightly.

Okay, gang, I admit to being a little anal about poetry.  And yes, even the limerick qualifies as poetry.  If you're going to write them, you might as well do it right.  A limerick is typically a humorous, rhymed poem of five lines, using the rhyme scheme A-A-B-B-A.  Example:

I love to see the morning sun,
that's how I tell the day's begun.
Birds all singing a happy song,
it is the place where I belong.
Far from school, without the nun.

Carry on.   

[Thistle]

Well, the first "A"s in anapests go
(In triameter, just so you know ),
Then two more for the B
And two others, y'see,
Then three anapests more, just like so.


Now a couple of verses I'll throw
So this game may continue to grow...

[OldFatGuy]

Don't know where it's leading,
Or if it's succeeding.
But onward and upward we go.

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She's so homely you'd think she would smother,
And her back view is just like her brother;