Happy Happy Limerick Day!

"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
~Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"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."
~ Edward Lear

"They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon."
~ Edward Lear


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Today is Limerick Day!.. Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of Writer Edward Lear (1812-1888). It also celebrates the creation of Limerick poems. Limericks were popularized by Lear in his "Book of Nonsense".

This is a day to read and enjoy silly Limerick poems. I have decided to Celebrate Limerick Day in style by writing a Limerick or two of my own. You might enjoy them more if you search the Internet for and read a few humorous Limericks by other folks.. Though mine were written at a moments notice.. I still hope they make you smile!

A Limerick is a humorous verse or poem. It is five lines long. It's name comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland. The first two lines rhyme with each other and with the fifth line. The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other but not with the other lines..


That's Nat

an ugly old woman named Nat
wore pants on her head for a hat

with her skirt upside down
she pranced through the town

while we asked of each other "What's THAT?"

Written BY Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2010


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Wet Feet

there once was a child from the city
who grew up in fear.. what a pity

she cried millions of tears
and was ignored fifty years

now in a puddle she scribbles this ditty

Written By: Patricia Sawyer
5-12-2010


I hope you have enjoyed my silly and hopefully funny Limericks.. Have a wonderful Night!
Patsy