Friday, June 1, 2018

Poetry Friday: A Trio of Limericks

For easy, breezy June, our poetry assignment was to write three limericks, all about birds/bees.  I chose no birds and all bees.  (And also, apparently, no depth and all funny. What can I say? This is my brain on Limericks.)







“B”

There once was a robust letter B
Who chafed at his spot next to C
So he cut back on his belly
And watched way less telly
And now he’s no more than a P.




Paul Gross
"Slings and Arrows"
 (best TV show about Shakespeare ever)

“Be”

There once was a prince who said “To be”
But negated that thought immediately
Then he picked up a skull,
Asked if life was meaningful...
“For a few more scenes,” said Yorick, dryly.






“Bee”

There once wazzz a wood-crazzzy carpenter bee
Who vizzzited sawtooth clamzzz by the zzzea
But alazzz! that "log" had incizzzors
He wazzz a hammerhead’zzz appetizzzer
And that wazzz all the zzzea he would zzzee.

---Sara Lewis Holmes (all rights reserved)



You can find my fellow poets' limericks here, including some lovely and lyrical poems which prove this form can do more than twist words into grins.

Tricia
Kelly
Tanita
Laura
Liz

Poetry Friday is hosted today at Buffy's Blog.


16 comments:

  1. Sara... You funny, funny, clever poet you... I love all three Bs, the final Buzzzzzzy one especially!

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    1. I think I got more out of control as I went. Good thing I stopped at three!

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  2. Oops, my connection went down (not at home this morning), and I'm not sure my comment went through. I adore how much fun you had with wordplay, and I'm STILL singing "Letter B" a la Sesame Street. :>)

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    1. Thanks, Laura! I was kind of grumpy when I started this assignment, and not feeling it....but wow, limericks must be like caffeine because this form was a jolt of fun.

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  3. Your first two are my favorites -- I love that you looked at "bee" as B and "to be." But even your straight-on bee poem wazz not straight-on!

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    1. Sometimes I think that I *never* look at anything straight-on...but limericks definitely add zzzzaniness to my point of view, hahha.

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  4. Alas, for poor Yorick! He got caught with a poet and tried to argue that he wasn't in a comedy...

    You crack me up.

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    1. Yeah, come on...talking to a skull is funny, right? And then if the skull talks back...hmmm...well...I guess it depends.

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  5. I love funny! Thank you for sharing these.

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    1. Thank you. I love funny too, and any kind of word play.

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  6. I love the way your mind works. These are all so different and fun, but the first one is my favorite.

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    1. It's bad when you laugh at your own jokes but I guffawed when that first one rolled out of the gate.

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  8. I agree with Tricia--all three are fun, and the first one made me laugh out loud.

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    1. Thanks, Bufffy...and thank you for hosting Poetry Friday!

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  9. These are all funny, but my favorite is the Hamlet one! He probably could have used a good limerick or two!

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