I have, I confess, NEVER once tried a limerick. I know some people who’re very good at it, and are funny to boot. I tried to be funny, but alas, ’twas not to be! Still, I had a lot of fun making these up. I DO like a challenge. Today’s challenge was to write a limerick about a flaw, using enjambment. Well … I know I did not achieve all three in the first one, so, stubbornly, I went and tried it again. And again. And again. Now, I’m done. If I am to improve, I should read more limericks. I shall do so, but not forthwith!
This Limerick!
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There’s a form of versing I know
Which doesn’t come quite in a flow
It’s, just as you guessed,
My lim’rick, depressed,
Sloth-like, it moves oh, so slow!
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Bad Boy
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There are those who might call you a fool,
Say you’re wasting their time at school
It sure would be nice
If you took their advice
But that would mean being too cool.
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Imaginary Bear
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There was a young puppy today
Who went to the woods to play
He saw a big bear who
Caused quite a scare; You-
Know-Who went yelping away.
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Rumpelstiltskin
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There once was a lovely young maiden
Whose king shut the door; she stayed in
With help, she spun straw
Into gold, but she saw
‘Twas but dross that she had been paid in.
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