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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Limericks!

Whoops!  I didn't post yesterday!  To make up for it, I'm going to do two posts today.  This is the first one.

Have any of you ever written a limerick?  It's a type of poem that I particularly enjoy.  Limericks are usually silly or nonsensical in some way, but they don't have to be.  Here is an example of a well-known limerick:
A flea and a fly in the flue
Were trapped, so what could they do?
"Let us fly," said the flea.
"Let us flee," said the fly,
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.


The rhyme scheme is simple and easy to follow.  The first two lines must rhyme with the last line, and the third and fourth lines usually rhyme, but in this case, they don't.

Here are some limericks I wrote:

This skeleton is nothing but bone
That never talks, but will groan
He must run from a pup
Or it'll eat his bones up
And that skeleton will then be unknown.


There once was a pizza named Fred
"I won't get eaten," he said.
But a boy went *much*
And his sister went *crunch*
To two children poor Fred had been fed.


Now, my readers, I challenge you!  I want to see your limericks!  Post them in the comments and I'll read them.  Looking forward to some funny poems!

--SwimmerGirl



1 comment:

  1. This is a limerick I wrote in 5th grade. I was bored - and hungry :)
    There once was a warm apple pie
    Whose dearest dream was to fly
    So he made two small wings
    And he jumped with a fling
    And splattered and started to cry.

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