January thirteenth I posted The Limerick Game And A Prize.
A limerick is a five line poem with a strict form. Limericks are witty or humorous and sometimes, obscene with humorous intent.
The winning limerick is from Wendy at http://wherefaeriesplay.blogspot.com/ ! Congratulations!
It was hard to decide.
Honorable mentions go to Laughing Orca and Skippy Mom.
Please email me with address so I may mail the prizes.
This was fun!
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The Limerick Game And A Prize
The limerick has been on my mind since four AM. I must stop this! I need sleep. If I slept, blogging would not be a true addiction.
Wickapedia says:
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
The following example of a limerick is of anonymous origin.
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick, as a folk form, is always obscene, and cites[1] similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity. That is to say, from a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function
Now here's the game...We are writing limericks today. My favorite will get a surprise.
My favorite limerick from somewhere, just floats into my mind now and then is:
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Wickapedia says:
A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form, originally popularized in English by Edward Lear. Limericks are witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
The following example of a limerick is of anonymous origin.
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
In space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean,
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Gershon Legman, who compiled the largest and most scholarly anthology, held that the true limerick, as a folk form, is always obscene, and cites[1] similar opinions by Arnold Bennett and George Bernard Shaw, describing the clean limerick as a periodic fad and object of magazine contests, rarely rising above mediocrity. That is to say, from a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its function
Now here's the game...We are writing limericks today. My favorite will get a surprise.
My favorite limerick from somewhere, just floats into my mind now and then is:
*
There was a young lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger!
*
My poor attempt at a limerick:
There was a lady named Gail
Who tried to write poetry and failed
She could not sleep
And could not eat
Now she has no tale(tail)!
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Sick but fun! Care to join me? January 18th will be the dead line. The prize will be picked to fit what I think is related to the winner.
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