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LIMERICK
This five-line rhyming poem is often silly, funny or bawdy. Limericks have a waltzing rhythm (anapestic) and a rhyme scheme of AABBA. The third and fourth lines are shorter with 5 or 6 syllables, while all other lines are around 8 or 9 syllables (but sometime up to 12).
Limericks were made popular by Nonsense Poet
I’m fully into soccer –
a real enthusiast.
I like to watch. I like to play –
to give the game my best.
It’s something teachers praise us for-
enthusiasm’s great!
But in the eighteenth century
it simply didn’t rate.
Enthusiasts were crazy folk
who’d somehow lost th...
How awful
that awful
means awful,
when once it meant
full of awe!
How silly
that silly
means silly,
when once it meant
happy and blessed!
It’s awfully silly
how meanings have changed,
and what we say now
has to be re-arrange...
Eyes now closed,
here I lie
imagining things
within my mind’s eye.
A giant glass marble
with aqua swirls
that turns into
our tiny world
against a backdrop
of deep-dark space …
then next appears
your smiling face!
And guess what’s even crazier?
A thing called aphantasia.
Some people, even though ...
Eee-ew!
Ishy, squishy tomato reeney;
Splat!
Right on my face.
Oohey, gooey tomato rooney
All over the place.
Tomato gunge in my hair,
Dangling off my shoe.
Up my nose,
Behind my ears.
What can I do?
Slushy, mushy tomato pulp
Flying through the air.
La Tomatina in full swing
This means TOMATO WARFARE!