National Limerick Day May 12

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[heterosupremacist]

NATIONAL LIMERICK DAY

Observed annually on May 12, National Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of English artist, illustrator, author and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888). Lear is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry, prose and limericks.

National Limerick Day also celebrates the limerick poem. Limerick poems were popularized by Edward Lear’s book “Book of Nonsense” in 1846.

A limerick is a very short, humorous, nonsense poem. Within a limerick, there are five lines. The first two lines rhyme with the fifth line and the third and fourth line rhyme together.

The Limerick also has a particular rhythm which is officially described as anapestic trimeter.

[blueunicorn6]

Your poem was so beautiful that it made me cry a little bit.

[tumblindice]

I met a lewd nude in Bermuda
Who thought she was shrewd. I was shrewder.
..She thought it quite crude
..To be wooed in the nude —
I pursued her, subdued her and screwed her.

[mc5cents]

There once was a woman named Alice,
who used a dynamite stick for a phallus.
They found her vagina in North Carolina
and bits of her tits down in Dallas.

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, you’re going straight to h e double-hockey-sticks for that one.

[Mr. Lucky]

It’s the thought that counts.

[JaguarXKE]

There once was a journo named Cooper

Who liked sticking things up his pooper

When Mr Wood said

What Mr Wood said

The liberals were all left in a stupor.

[Billthedrill]

From the master, Robert Conquest:

There was an old bastard named Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That's a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
That old bastard Stalin did ten in.

[Savage Beast]

There once was a man from Savannah
Who met his death in a most peculiar manner:
He diddled the hole
In a telephone pole
And electrified his banana.

[skepsel]

The sea captain’s tender young bride
fell into the bay at low tide,
You could tell by her squeals,
that some of the eels
had discovered a good place to hide.

[heterosupremacist]

# 49

skepsel wrote:

The sea captain’s tender young bride
fell into the bay at low tide,
You could tell by her squeals,
that some of the eels
had discovered a good place to hide.

Demented mariners ping! 8O)

[mkleesma]

There once was a woman from Wheeling,
Who claimed she had no sexual feeling.
Until a cynic named Boris
Rubbed her c******is
And she had to be scraped off the ceiling!

[heterosupremacist]

mkleesma wrote:

There once was a woman from Wheeling,
Who claimed she had no sexual feeling.
Until a cynic named Boris
Rubbed her c******is
And she had to be scraped off the ceiling!

tacky, but excellent in its own way...

[going hot]

There was a prez named barack
who thought he was on the right tract
keep the doc he would boast
while he rammed health care down our throat
and the duck kept screaming aflac

[mc5cents]

The bustard's an exquisite fowl,
with minimal reason to growl.
He escapes what would be Illegitimacy
By grace of a fortunate vowel.

[heterosupremacist]

# 54

Brilliant!

[V1Rotate]

He said with a grin,
while wiping his chin......