Poetry competition CLOSED 8th August 2011 1:21am
WINNER
Darkbee (DB)
Darkbee (DB)
RUNNERS-UP:
jolais
and Bonang
limericks :
Poetry Contest Description
write a limerick
[color=Green]Limerick Poetry[/color]
A limerick is a poem with five lines. They are often funny .
How to write a limerick:
The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9). The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6).
Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."
Example of an 8,8,6,6,8 syllable limerick:
There once was a man from Madrass
Who's balls were constructed of brass
When jangled together
They played stormy weather
And lightening shot out of his as[b]s!
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A limerick is a poem with five lines. They are often funny .
How to write a limerick:
The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9). The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6).
Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."
Example of an 8,8,6,6,8 syllable limerick:
There once was a man from Madrass
Who's balls were constructed of brass
When jangled together
They played stormy weather
And lightening shot out of his as[b]s!
[/b]
Not as funny as the one you posted but here goes:
The New Yorker Talker
There once was a man from New York
who was compelled to constantly talk.
When told to be quiet,
he started a riot
then in stunned silence did gawk.
I also managed to slip a limerick into a comment on a poem a while back too... how can you not like Limericks in poem comments!http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/23901/
Update Is it only one entry? I have another if not (otherwise take my first one I guess)
Sailor's Curse
There was a young sailor in port
who did what a good sailor ought;
found a hooker named Sam
who was really a man
so things didn't turn out like he thought.
The New Yorker Talker
There once was a man from New York
who was compelled to constantly talk.
When told to be quiet,
he started a riot
then in stunned silence did gawk.
I also managed to slip a limerick into a comment on a poem a while back too... how can you not like Limericks in poem comments!http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/poems/23901/
Update Is it only one entry? I have another if not (otherwise take my first one I guess)
Sailor's Curse
There was a young sailor in port
who did what a good sailor ought;
found a hooker named Sam
who was really a man
so things didn't turn out like he thought.
There once was a man named viddax
Who's reality was a bit lax
When asked what was certain
He pulled back the curtain
And said not even death and tax.
A shameless plug I know but take it or leave just don't pet it.
There once was a man named machiavelli
Who's taboo ideas belonged on the telly
When he wrote about the 'prince'
His contemporaries did wince
And he ended up dead and rather smelly.
(I'm in an italian mode not much of an excuse but it will please the ribed court.)
Who's reality was a bit lax
When asked what was certain
He pulled back the curtain
And said not even death and tax.
A shameless plug I know but take it or leave just don't pet it.
There once was a man named machiavelli
Who's taboo ideas belonged on the telly
When he wrote about the 'prince'
His contemporaries did wince
And he ended up dead and rather smelly.
(I'm in an italian mode not much of an excuse but it will please the ribed court.)
