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+Steven Curtis Lance
How About a Limerick?

(Here are two lines, with which to begin...)

There once was a girl from Pawtucket
Who got her head stuck in a bucket

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angelroze
It wouldnt come out,
So she gave a loud shout,
And to any one around she said FUCKIT]

haha i thought it was kidna funy
+Steven Curtis Lance
Hooray!  A successful outcome!  

Would you like to propose some lines for strings, ROze?

Any ideas from anybody are most welcome; we just started this forum today.

;D
angelroze
lol noo im stupid lol i wouldnt be able to tihnk of anything lol but yea i can finish things ussually.. ROze

BUT HEY anyone got anymore??lets go start one! uh?
+Steven Curtis Lance
Well, like that silly one above, a limerick is a single quintet rhyming AABBA and written in anapestic measures.  Accentual-syllabic...  a limerick always rattles along in this characteristic way... the A lines are long and the B lines are short, and the thing ends up where it began, so to speak, with that last line rhyming with the first.  There's a sense of conclusion, of arrival.  I like limericks to be saucy, as well, and they usually are.  Sometimes the last line, line five, is but a modified repetition of the first.  I just wanted to get somebody to say "fuck it" in that example above, little bastard which I am!  And they did.  Had to.  All my loving greetings to all.
+Steven Curtis Lance
Oh yes, please do join in here and everywhere; I am delighted you have come to be among us here.  You are truly welcome and appreciated.  My sister Dara and I were both so pleased when you came to join us.  Just our sort of person you are.  Welcome once again and merry meet, my friend.
lover_with_wingz
haha good deal! I love to write but I am so bad with structure and I never heard of a limerick!? ??? nice job Rooze you rule!

yes welcome still trying! You are a strong and wonderful person!


Love yas,
Chrissy
screamingdreamer
i thought that i'd try for a limerick
but sadly, i just cannot finish it...
rhymer
i thought that i'd try for a limerick
but sadly, i just cannot finish it...
What should come next,
what can I write?
I let someone else do the tricky bit!
+Steven Curtis Lance
There once was a girl in Illinois
Who down deep in her heart was a boy
And so she arranged
To have her sex changed
That dear little boy in Illinois

+Steven Curtis Lance, Copyright 2003

Forgive me for this, my friends and fellow poets; I just wanted to quickly sketch out a sort of "demo" limerick, for reference purposes.  
rhymer
There once was a limerick writer
who wanted to link his words tighter.
memmers
There once was a limerick writer
who wanted to link his words tighter.
With thoughts running through his mind,
getting crossed and leaving everyone behind.
Who is this limerickering writer and why can't I make his words tighter?
screamingdreamer
i once knew a man from nantucket
whose d*ck was so long he could s*ck it
he said with a grin, as he wiped off his chin,
"if me ear were a c*nt, i would f*ck it!!"

hehe...

sorry...but i just think that's funny...

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Dennis
Here is one I wrote a while back. Perhaps you will have fun with it. It is not as naughty though.

"But, your my friend"

I met a young lady named Lydia,
Who liked to dabble in trivia.

She was quite wise, and soon she surmised
An education she was seeking.

So with fire and zest she started her quest.
Not knowing where it would lead her.

As her studies progressed and she became a success

She met a young man named Dennis who thought himself a menace.

But she thought he was nice, full of sugar and spice.

Who had a young boy who brought great joy
Whenever he played with a toy.

One day she said he was romantic,
And Dennis well, became frantic.

Oh, what a silly man he is.

So with a glass of wine she took some time
To drop this young man a line.

But he was no fool he was just trying to be cool.

So with a glass of beer and a hearty good cheer he said
"But you’re my friend!”
Dennis
Ha Ha I posted this before I registered now can't correct the last line that became corrupted oh well
Dennis
I didn't want to stop this line. Just wanted to give an example of a longer softer style. A limrick does not have to be short and naughty. Just a rhyming fast pace.  It is a fun style.
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