Lymerick

:)

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?