Mornings…?

Posted on November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Challenge, Fun, Humour, lark, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Rhyme, Words, WritingLeave a comment

I try and write a limerick for Esther Chiltons blog on a Monday. Someone puts a prompt word up and people respond.

I usually forget to copy my limerick for myself but I did today. Its a bit clumsy, the lines are quite long, but it does have the structure of a limerick. That is the first two lines have the last word rhyming, the next two lines rhyme with each other and then the final fifth line rhymes with the first two.

Here it is, the prompt word was ‘lark’ which can appear anywhere in the limerick, not necessarily at the end of a line.

I’m very rarely up with the lark
Early attendance I get a black mark
Just goes to show staying up late
Does not myself an early bird make
I get up so late, its already gone dark!

This mornings limerick

Posted on November 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Hope, Humour, Limerick, Pain, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Recovery, Relief, Tired, WritingLeave a comment

I usually write a limerick for Esther Chilton Blog on a Monday. Last night I suddenly had a pain in my back. Why? I do not know but I don’t want it!

I wrote this in response to the word HOPE which is what the days prompt was.

I hope my back will be alright
It started hurting in the night
I took a pill
And hope it will
Be better by the morning light!

I hope it feels better soon. Its one thing after another!

Limericks

Posted on October 7, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged altar, Dolphin, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Married, Poem, Poetry, Sea, silly verse, WhaleLeave a comment

I love limericks… I keep writing them!

There was a young whale from Gibraltar
Who married a young dolphins daughter
They went to a church
But started to lurch
And squashed the vicar on the altar!

Very random and silly I know, it’s sometimes hard to find a rhyme.

Limerick

Posted on October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged can you write?, Challenge, Esther's challenge, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, WritingLeave a comment

I just completed a fellow bloggers challenge to write a limerick. The word we had to use was Lie. The trick is that you can use the word anywhere in the limerick, you don’t need to use it as a word at the end of a line.

Limericks are five line rhymes, made famous I think by Edward Lear the poet. The format is two longer lines that rhyme at the end… Mine were Joe and Toe today, then two shorter lines. I ended mine with blame and lame. Then a final, fifth line that rhymes with the ends of the first two lines, where I used the word Know.

Sometimes limericks don’t rhyme because the last words look similar but don’t sound similar, you have to know the pronunciation.

Mow Cop limerick

Posted on February 22, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cheshire, Drawing, folly, Fun, Life, Limerick, mow cop castle, mow cop hill, Poem, Poetry, Sketch, Staffordshire, ViewsLeave a comment

There is a prompt set by Esther Chilton to write a limerick using a particular word. This week it was Mop, which was good because I’d just drawn Mow Cop at Five am this morning.

Mow Cop is a folly of a castle near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, and stands above the Cheshire plain with views of Jodrell Bank Observatory and beyond.

Moon limerick

Posted on October 12, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Doom, Limerick, Loom, Moon, Odd, Poetry, Rhyme, Short poem, SillyLeave a comment

There once was a man in the moon

Who wove a big rug on a loom

With stars and with craters

Where he planted his ‘taters

In moon dust they met their doom!

Limerick about hair

Posted on September 28, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Humour, Limerick, Limerick Monday, Poem, Poetry, Prompt, Random, WritingLeave a comment

I write silly limericks each week on a friend’, Esther Chilton’s, blog. I don’t usually share them here but I thought I would with the one I wrote on her blog last week. I hadn’t been feeling well and I forgot I had written this. I can’t remember the word that we had to base the limerick on, I think it was State, you have a one word prompt. It does not have to be the word you rhyme with, it can sit anywhere within the limerick:

Just look at the state of my hair!

This lockdowns been really unfair

My mane has extended

Far more than intended

From the top to the foot of the stairs!

I hope it made you chuckle. Limericks have a two, two, one pattern, the first two and last line should rhyme and lines three and four are often shorter and have a different pattern to their rhymes.

Monday limerick

Posted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Ester Chilton blog, Fun, Funny, Happy, Humour, Laugh, Limerick, Poem, Poetry, Writing, ZoomLeave a comment

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On Mondays we write limericks at Esther Chiltons blog here.

Her prompt for us today was Zoom.

I decided to zoom past the obvious usage of the world and wrote this:

The telescope was set on Zoom
He could see the man in the moon
I’ll get in my rocket
With some cheese in my pocket
To feed old moony real soon!

A limerick to creativity

Posted on August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Does it rhyme, Funny, Humour, Limerick, Micro poetry, Photodirector app, Poem, Poetry, Silly, What is a limerickLeave a comment

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With this app I will play

Make new images every day

Make my whiskers go all spikey

Make your love much more likely

Art is fun, is what I say!

Not sure if I’ve got the limerick right, it rhymes the same for the first two lines and the last line, and the third and fourth rhyme too. But I’m not sure it fits the rhythm of a limerick…

Da da dah da dah da da dadada (lines one, two and five)

and – Da da da dah da (lines three and four).

For instance, this is more recognisably a limerick:

There once was a cat had a fishery

It ate all the perch and the chicory,

It hadn’t a clue

What it needed to do

So it went into debt and to bankruptcy?

Although it doesn’t make much sense! But then again limericks don’t have to, they are often nonsense verse. For instance Lewis Carrol whose real name was Charles Dodson. Anyway strange post I guess…

Limerick challenge…

Posted on June 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Fun, Humour, Life, Limerick, Nose, Poem, Poetry, Random, RhymeLeave a comment

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I just wrote this at Easter Chiltons blog, where the prompt was to use the word nose on some part of the limerick…

I hope you think this is funny! 😂

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Tag: Limerick