Friday, November 13, 2009

Limericks from class today

Popcorn always makes me happy

Girlfriends can make me feel snappy

And sometimes it’s true

She makes me feel blue

And so I became slaphappy

~

There was a young man with a boot

Who really could not give a hoot

His feet were still dry

Megan makes me cry

He sat and enjoyed his loot

~

A black rhino named Arthur

Who refrained from meeting his father

Skipped to the zoo

To see what he could do

And proceeded to meet his illegitimate daughter

~

I go to the moon after dark

I kill them all like larks

They all bleed green it makes me keen

I enjoy the sounds of the park?

~

There once was a boat out to sea

Full of lads and lasses drunk on tea

They laughed and they sang

And shotguns “Bang! Bang! Bang!”

The party roared above the sea

~

I once met a man who was yellow

He was quite the odd fellow

He drank only tangelo

While playing the cello

So at least his music was mellow

~

The unicorn went to the park

And sniffed at all the bark

It smelled pretty bad

And it made him quite sad

So instead he sniffed glue in the dark

~

I thought that it had been bought

Now I’m stuck with what I got

I threw up my hands

And set to the sands

And found all I had sought

~

My Grandma once said “Listen Boy,

So I sat up and put down my toy,

Eat up some sweets lad

And don’t dare be bad

Or Santa won’t bring you no joy”

~

There once was a young man named Huy,

Who turned into a tall, stripy tree

He kicked and he cried

He wept and he tried

So a lumberjack let him go free

~

There was a poor lady in London

On her foot there was once quite a bunion

She wasn’t a witch

But her foot had an itch

So she had several onions

~

A cat sat upon a tall wall

And made a long delectable call

No one answered him

He felt quite grim

A rat sat in a small hall

~

A protestant man from New York

Flew fast away on a stork

In Dallas its said

He wore on his head

So many poked him with a fork

~

Up on an apple tree limb

A robin and squirrel so prim

Began first to squirm

Harassed by a work

The poem was written on a whim

~

If people were thinking of cheese

They would happily fall on their knees

To grab their keys

As if they were bees

And to all, “cheese please”

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