Poetry competition CLOSED 24th June 2014 9:32am
WINNER
Atakti
Atakti
Limerick fun that needs to be done
Poetry Contest Description
Write a limerick about a fellow DU member.
WHAT IS A LIMERICK? (thank you, Google & copy/paste)
Limericks are one of the most fun and well-known poetic forms. No one knows for sure where the name “limerick” comes from, but most people assume it is related to the county of Limerick, in Ireland.
The reason limericks are so much fun is because they are short, rhyming, funny, and have a bouncy rhythm that makes them easy to memorize.
THE RULES OF LIMERICKS
Limericks, like all poetic forms, have a set of rules that you need to follow. The rules for a limerick are fairly simple:
They are five lines long.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
They have a distinctive rhythm (which I’ll explain shortly)
They are usually funny.
LIMERICK RHYTHM:
Now let’s take a look at the rhythm of the limerick. It goes by the name “anapaestic,” but you don’t need to worry about that. What I want you to notice when you read or recite a limerick is that the first two lines and the last line have three “beats” in them, while the third and fourth lines have two “beats.” In other words, the rhythm of a limerick looks like this:
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
The rhythm doesn’t have to exactly match this, but it needs to be close enough.
Here are a couple of examples:
"A monster who saw an oil tanker
Munched a hole in the side which sank 'er
It ate all the crew
In a minute or two
And then picked its teeth with the anchor"
"There once was a girl named McGill
Who used dynamite sticks for a thrill
They found her vagina
In South Carolina
And bits of her tits in Brazil"
COMPETITION RULES:
You can only write a limerick about a DUP member.
The member you choose to write about MUST be a participant in this competition.
Comment in the thread to let others know you'd like to participate. (you don't need to write one straight away, as long as you come back with one- once your name's in, it's in!)
Keep it friendly.
Intentionally hurtful/racist or otherwise submissions will receive my personal wrath, be caps locked to a pulp leaving only a shit stain where your name should be, then be reported.
It doesn't have to be funny- you can write about something else if you so wish, provided it's about a DUP member/participant.
Enter as many times as you wish, but keep your entries varied.
Hope you enjoy it!
(Here is a website which can be very useful if you get stuck finding words that rhyme... http://www.wordhippo.com/ )
Limericks are one of the most fun and well-known poetic forms. No one knows for sure where the name “limerick” comes from, but most people assume it is related to the county of Limerick, in Ireland.
The reason limericks are so much fun is because they are short, rhyming, funny, and have a bouncy rhythm that makes them easy to memorize.
THE RULES OF LIMERICKS
Limericks, like all poetic forms, have a set of rules that you need to follow. The rules for a limerick are fairly simple:
They are five lines long.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.
They have a distinctive rhythm (which I’ll explain shortly)
They are usually funny.
LIMERICK RHYTHM:
Now let’s take a look at the rhythm of the limerick. It goes by the name “anapaestic,” but you don’t need to worry about that. What I want you to notice when you read or recite a limerick is that the first two lines and the last line have three “beats” in them, while the third and fourth lines have two “beats.” In other words, the rhythm of a limerick looks like this:
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
The rhythm doesn’t have to exactly match this, but it needs to be close enough.
Here are a couple of examples:
"A monster who saw an oil tanker
Munched a hole in the side which sank 'er
It ate all the crew
In a minute or two
And then picked its teeth with the anchor"
"There once was a girl named McGill
Who used dynamite sticks for a thrill
They found her vagina
In South Carolina
And bits of her tits in Brazil"
COMPETITION RULES:
You can only write a limerick about a DUP member.
The member you choose to write about MUST be a participant in this competition.
Comment in the thread to let others know you'd like to participate. (you don't need to write one straight away, as long as you come back with one- once your name's in, it's in!)
Keep it friendly.
Intentionally hurtful/racist or otherwise submissions will receive my personal wrath, be caps locked to a pulp leaving only a shit stain where your name should be, then be reported.
It doesn't have to be funny- you can write about something else if you so wish, provided it's about a DUP member/participant.
Enter as many times as you wish, but keep your entries varied.
Hope you enjoy it!
(Here is a website which can be very useful if you get stuck finding words that rhyme... http://www.wordhippo.com/ )
I'll kick things off, best as I can:
lightbaron
the baron of light is so chilled
his writing saunters through life with skill
watch out for his beard
makes him wise, but weird
when he leaves a comment, I'm thrilled
I guess I'm in too, heh.
lightbaron
the baron of light is so chilled
his writing saunters through life with skill
watch out for his beard
makes him wise, but weird
when he leaves a comment, I'm thrilled
I guess I'm in too, heh.
laceyspacey said:kriticool, anything but critical
sitting in his desk, why so invisible?
words he types, so strong and vast
from his fingers to keyboard he casts
some of my favorite poems in digital.
=].
[right]
Oh once was a laceyspacey
the way her little writes would faze me
from every word that eye caught
feeling all that she’d wrought
each funny taunt gives a thought to amaze me[/right]
sitting in his desk, why so invisible?
words he types, so strong and vast
from his fingers to keyboard he casts
some of my favorite poems in digital.
=].
[right]
Oh once was a laceyspacey the way her little writes would faze me
from every word that eye caught
feeling all that she’d wrought
each funny taunt gives a thought to amaze me[/right]
Uh oh.. 
