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Old 09-03-2009, 03:10 PM

Limericks

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A Form of Poetry? Limerick Poems? Limericks the genre?
The form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems have received incredibly bad press and dismissed as not having a rightful place amongst what is seen as 'cultivated poetry'. The reason for this is three-fold:

* The content of many limericks is often of a bawdy and humorous nature.
* A Limerick as a poetry form is by nature simple and short - limericks only have five lines.
* And finally the somewhat dubious history of limericks have contributed to the critics attitudes.

Limericks - The History
Variants of the form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems can be traced back to the fourteenth century English history. Limericks were used in Nursery Rhymes and other poems for children. But as limericks were short, relatively easy to compose and bawdy or sexual in nature they were often repeated by beggars or the working classes in the British pubs and taverns of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventh centuries. The poets who created these limericks were therefore often drunkards! Limericks were also referred to as dirty.

Where does the term 'Limerick' come from?
The word derives from the Irish town of Limerick. Apparently a pub song or tavern chorus based on the refrain "Will you come up to Limerick?" where, of course, such bawdy songs or 'Limericks' were sung.

Limericks - A Defence - Shakespeare even wrote Limericks!
Admittedly the content of Limericks can often verge on the indecent, the dirty, or even the obscene, but they make people laugh! Limericks are easy to remember! Limericks are short and no great talent is necessary to compose one - Limericks are a form of poetry that everyone feels happy to try (especially when inebriated!). Limericks as a form of poetry has survived the test of time dating back for centuries! And whilst the poetic and literary skills of Shakespeare are not necessary for the composition of a limerick the great Bard himself did in fact write limericks which can be found in two of his greatest plays - Othello and King Lear.

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Old 09-03-2009, 03:14 PM

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I'll Send You My Bill

A mechanic on a days trip from Brazil
Ran down a parrot
on the crest of a hill
The beak was asunder, horribly rent
The mechanic swore complete recompense
Fine, said the parrot, I'll send you my bill...


Looking For The Man

The dog at the Saloon door, they saw
Who said in shaking voice, so raw
'I'm looking for the man
Down on the Rio Grande-
I'm looking for the man, that shot my paw.'


Daisy Chain

I know I'll never live, to see a thing so ample
Could be construed, to cause an instant trample:
A nudist camp filled up with bathing dames
That swim in tight formation; a daisy chain
Which of the former cause, is one example.


Obama

The talk of the town's the new Prez
They hang on every word he sez
Though his lineage is historic
And his method, rhetoric
He could do with a stately pince-nez.


Limerick The Endless Torus

Limerick's the endless torus
Which goes round, never to bore us
For we like to engage
With words wise and sage
But not be a know-it-allsaurus.
Ms P Masterman

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Old 09-03-2009, 03:16 PM

Limericks by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense

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There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'

There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
He replied, 'Yes, it does!'
'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'

There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,
Who never had more than a penny;
He spent all that money,
In onions and honey,
That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.

There was an Old Man with a flute,
A sarpint ran into his boot;
But he played day and night,
Till the sarpint took flight,
And avoided that man with a flute.

There was an Old Man of Vienna,
Who lived upon Tincture of Senna;
When that did not agree,
He took Camomile Tea,
That nasty Old Man of Vienna.

There was an Old Person whose habits,
Induced him to feed upon rabbits;
When he'd eaten eighteen,
He turned perfectly green,
Upon which he relinquished those habits.

There was a Young Lady whose eyes,
Were unique as to colour and size;
When she opened them wide,
People all turned aside,
And started away in surprise.

There was an Old Man of the Wrekin
Whose shoes made a horrible creaking
But they said, 'Tell us whether,
Your shoes are of leather,
Or of what, you Old Man of the Wrekin?'

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Old 09-03-2009, 03:17 PM

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The limerick is furtive and mean

You must keep her in close quarantine

Or she sneaks to the slums

And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk and obscene.

Linda Blair with great favour confessed,

She'd been exorcised, thus finding rest,

But alack and alas

Her old demon came back

and now the poor girl's repossessed.


A young man from Timbucktoo

Whose limericks stopped at line two.

A critic refused, as reviewer,

To read the obscene and impure;

He soon left the scene

For the books that were clean,

just kept getting fewer and fewer.
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