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Nice limericks, tailor and Sancho!
Esther Chilton's prompt this week is "rock": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/08/...cription_popup
The old clock’s now as hard as a rock.
It is timelessly ticking each tock.
It still hangs on the wall
since it’s pretty and all,
but it’s not of much use as a clock.
Enjoyed :)
Will try back a bit later...
rock limerick #x
tailor really liked his rock
and his eclecticism included Bach
but he toed the line at the Eagles
Tom Petty and some Flock of Seagulls
and Elvis... he never could grok
8/11/2025 r. 8/12/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
There was a young fellow named Jacques
Who tried for a rhyme with rock
It was absurd
Could not find a word
While suffering a case of writer’s block
Nice limericks, tailor and Sancho!
Esther Chilton's word this week is "just": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/08/...cription_popup
Well, I just want to say I don’t trust
all the news that I hear, but I must
let the dust settle, too.
It’s the least I can do –
and the most – since I can’t control dust.
Nice
Hmmm, thinking of one…
There once a chap named Gus
Who searched for place that was just
Looked far and wide
But could not abide
And in the end he just cussed
Good ones... will try to come up with something :)
just bear with me
something was niggling on my mind
fleshing it out was undefined
had I taken my meds
before reading these threads
just bear with me as I rewind
8/18/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Nice limericks!
Esther Chilton's prompt this week is "weigh": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
The new scale she bought yesterday
has said what she feared it would say.
She should lose one or two
maybe more than a few
of the pounds that it said she might weigh.
:)
Weigh the Anchor!
"Weigh the floggin' anchor!"
Jack Ketch bellicosely spat with rancor
"Hoist the Jolly Roger into the blue!
A hogshead of grog each when we're through.
Now avast! ye slovenly scrimshankers!!!"
9/8/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Arggg!
Bah-hahaha!
Good one, Tailor
I once knew a gal named Faye-Faye
I asked her — How much you weigh, Faye?
Shook her head and snorted
And then she retorted
Not with an answer, but only a neigh-neigh
(She’s about 1200 lbs on 4 hooves)
:)
Lol... some love for the equine :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I wouldn't want to carry Faye-Faye over the threshold and it sounds like its party time on the Jolly Roger.
Esther Chilton's prompt this week is "funny": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...-limerick-249/
It is funny how nightmares don't seem
quite so spooky when in a daydream.
In the night, light is dark.
In the day, wolves don't bark.
So relax. Wait till night comes to scream.
Lol... Enjoyed :)
Challenge excepted:
An Unfortunate Man Named Danvours
He laughed and characteristically snorted
"Funny you should ask" waving a cane he oft sported
Then related to me the ontogeny of the butterfly
Just prior to taking wing waving "goodbye"
You see he had merged with the bug when last transported
9/15/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Haha, wolves don't bark, but seals do. Had my dog down at Tacoma Narrows Park the other day and she got into a barking contest with a seal. They seemed to understand each other.
On with Esther's challenge:
Every Good Boy Does Fine
(A heckler's lament)
There once was a young comic
Who’s memory crutch was mnemonic
I yelled a complaint:
Aye! Funny you ain’t
When he joked up on stage he bombed it
Lol :)
Good point about wolves not barking, Sancho. :) And good warning about being transported with a bug, tailor.
Esther Chilton's word this week is "shower": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
As I thought and I thought and I thought
in a shower of thoughts I got caught.
I had hoped to get clean
not stay dirty and mean,
but I still do not do what I ought.
Thanx :)
Enjoyed... transient thoughts are the worst.
Toribund
Toribund was a great sprite of power
Who in searching for the perfect flower
Said the rose looked too parched
And the lotus too starched
Caused the heavens to darken then shower
9/24/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Those flowers sound like they needed a shower. :)
Esther Chilton offers "built" for this week's limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/09/...cription_popup
As a tank it was built for success.
It succeeded in making a mess.
It was stopped one fine day
when it went out to play
by a tank built to cause more distress.
Was off the grid last week. Gotta double up this week:
There was a young fellow named Mauer
Who worked like a fiend by the hour
His clothes they were soiled
The sweat while he toiled
Fell from his brow like a shower
Now Mauer toiled and worked without guilt
Did not regret the sweat he had spilt
Knew what he wanted
His effort undaunted
Stood back to admire what he’d built
Mauer don’t need no stinking labor union.
Enjoyed all three :)
"The House of the Lord"
Temples well built as the axiom extols
Oft perched upon peaceful leavened knolls
Beckon the covenant children of God
Who've fully embraced the iron rod
To perform ordinances for the saving of souls
9/30/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Nice ones about working without a labor union, Sancho, and good point about the house of the Lord, Tailor!
Esther Chilton offers "crazy" for this week's limericks: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...cription_popup
"That is crazy!" I thought though it's true
like the fact that the blue sky is blue
like a gift from above
like a message of love
like an answer just waiting for you.
^Those are celestial ideas. But rather than the loftiness of good works, my lymerick goes with just plain old work. Here’s the continuation the saga of Mauer the working man. In this episode Mauer reconsiders his position on labor unions.
Fraternally:
Now Mauer worked on without sleep
His theory on unions not deep
The thinking was hazy
It bordered on crazy
That labor was bought on the cheap
Power to the people, baby. Power to the people.
Mauer’s power is in the collective.
Enjoyed both :) ... will go crazy a bit later.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
crazy... ars limerick
crazy is as limericks go ofttimes
rhythmically they commit few crimes
alliteration useful within a rhyme scheme
zany, sometimes bawdy to the extreme
you can even make an acrostic betimes
10/7/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Nice acrostic, Tailor, and I hope Mauer gets his well-deserved raise, Sancho!
This week Esther Chilton offers "follow" to be used in a limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...cription_popup
When I followed you said follow through,
but I followed. What more should I do?
"Well, I gave you a map."
Like a rat in a trap,
yes, I followed, but why didn't you?
The Tears of the Washerwomen
'Dia das Bruxas' in fashionable São Paulo
or 'Saci Da' as some may prefer to follow
is likened to a festive Halloween party
where ghouls, witches, and pirates hearty
dance to see the washerwomen chororó
10/15/2025
• https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/hallo...ns-what-to-do/
• https://www.connectbrazil.com/halloween-in-brazil/
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Those were great links, Tailor! I especially liked the song Saci by Astrud Gilberto.
This week Esther Chilton offers "bread" to be used in a limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...cription_popup
Although some say the moon's made of cheese,
is there wine and fresh bread with that, please?
Are there olives as well
and soft moonbeams to tell
of that night with the soft light through trees?
Thanks for those wonderful links about Halloween in São Paulo and a Saci song I didn't know yet. I only saw the links now as I rarely visit this thread thanks to YesNo's comment.
One more link with Saci Perere legends in English: https://fabulahub.com/en/story/the-l...klore/sid-2402
Thanx :) Delightful Saci link with his lore of wisdom :)
Wonderful 'bread' limerick :) ... hope to revisit with an offering soon.
... and here it is:
Haight
A gaunt hippy once asked me for bread
Who bore signs of the Grateful Dead
Being socially inept
Inwardly I wept
And shared my submarine sandwich instead
10/20/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Enjoyed the poem!
Thanks for the challenge, Y/N.
Nice, Tailor.
I’m getting Wharf Rat vibes from that one.
Wharf Rat, Grateful Dead:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/wha...07?i=311069640
Along those lines:
There was a beggar named August West
Asked for a dime as a bequest
Or a crust of bread
It’s been days, he said
Thank you, good sir, and please, be blessed
Also found it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqifssXIuw for non-apple people
Great tune... Jerry and Bob and * inspired me to be comfortable with my voice :)
Enjoyed your poem Sancho, goes great with the song :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks for the additional information on the Saci Perere legends, Danik. Nice poems on sharing bread (or a submarine sandwich), Sancho and Tailor!
This week Esther Chilton offers "dust" to be used in a limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/10/...-limerick-255/
So much dust! Can a sneezer now trust
all the dust that a sneezer now must?
When I sneeze I will say
to the dust: Blow away!
But it stayed since it's just dusty dust.
Sneezers, lol... Enjoyed :)
Dust to Dust
So much to vacuum, so much to dust
Wood into woodstove, fails to combust
Rainwater drips when it rains into buckets
Lord how I wish to hear sweet clarion tuckets
Heralding Him I seek, in Him I trust
10/27/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Haha! It’s not so much the dust as the pollen, eh, Y/N? I grew up SC and I remember the entire place being covered with an inch-thick layer of yellow pine pollen in the spring. Achoo! It’s not as bad up here in the PNW, but we do get a fair amount of fir pollen.
Tailor, I had to look up “clarion tuckets.” Well done.
Pretty little lies we tell ourselves just to get through the day:
There once a wharf rat named August
His clothing and hair dirty and mussed
Loved Pearly Baker
Questioned his maker
The dreams of a good life turned to dust
Ya know, when I first heard that tune I got a strong visual of an actual beggar I’d come across in San Fran’s Fisherman’s back in the early 80s. I wondered if Robert Hunter had come across the same guy, or a similar one. I also tend picture Hunter as the narrator, maybe on one of his more down-and-out days.
Woo! Depressing. I feel the need to get back to limericks where the protagonist is from Nantucket.
There was a young guy from Nantucket
Jamming to sweet clarion tuckets
He had a big gong
And then in the song
He just wound up and struck it
Those protagonists from Nantucket LOL!
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I agree with "in Him I trust", Tailor. And I agree that the inch-thick pollen is far, far worse than the dust in SC, Sancho.
The word this week is "litter" for Esther Chilton's Laughing Along With A Limerick prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/11/...-limerick-256/
Be not bitter. Don’t litter away
all the moments, those nows, when you play,
since those nows are one now.
There’s just one anyhow
and that one wondrous now is today.
Who is this Esther Chilton gal anyway?
I’m not going to Esther. You Esther.
Anyway, on with Esther’s challenge. What can I say? I’ve still got game 7 on the brain.
Ode to Yoshinobu Yamamoto:
Up to the plate stepped the pinch hitter
Yelled at the mound, “don’t throw me no litter.”
Expected a four seamer
A real fastball screamer
But instead got the off-speed splitter
Whoosh.
Enjoyed both limericks of special moments... How about them bums !
All That Glitters...
Festive candy wrappers all aglitter
From tiny hands aflitter
Make their way to windblown streets
During trick or treats
Add to fallen leaves' susurrus as litter
11/3/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I don't know much about Esther, Sancho. She has published collections of stories and a children's book. Her posts are often writing prompts or book reviews. I have seen such glitter on windblown streets, Tailor. I wondered what it was until I realized it was just litter.
The word this week is "snacks" for Esther Chilton's Laughing Along With A Limerick prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/11/...-limerick-257/
All the snickety snacks in my pack
are quite tasty and none of them lack
a smart crunch. One or two
might sound odd, but a few
sound delightful when crunch leads to crack.