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David Plantinga Apr 2024
Suitors
A spinster from Flint once opined
In her day the suitors were kind.  
Though sister was gone,
They didn’t stay long.  
An overfull parlor can grind.
#courtship #parlors #awkward #limerick #humor
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David Plantinga Apr 2024
Soggy Vegetables
A vegetable sufficiently boiled
And buttered and salted and oiled
Can taste just like meat
Off a parakeet
Or platypus flambéed then broiled.
#butter #salt #vegetables #limerick #rhyme
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David Plantinga Apr 2024
Flea Circus
A huckster from Huxby displayed
His circus of fleas to any who paid.
A bug on a trapeze
Can soar with such ease
And for wages takes marmalade.
#fleas #circuses #impresarios #limerick #humor
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David Plantinga Mar 2024
Fairways and Felt
Though cue-***** are glossy and smooth
The felt has been rough since my youth.
Some dimples assist
When fairways resist
But putting on tables is uncouth.
#pool #billiards #golf #limerick #humor
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David Plantinga Mar 2024
Tenants
In welcome old Fido is barking
But cats are too haughty for marking
If tenants are home,
Or off on a roam.  
A shut-in gets cranky and carking.
#cats #dogs #pets #limerick #rhyme #humor
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David Plantinga Mar 2024
Houseboat
It’s lovely to live on a boat
So mobile a dwelling and remote,
But beaching in sand
To dock on dry land,
Is nicer than bobbing afloat.
In homage to the Peggotty family
#houseboat #limerick #beach #rhyme #humor
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David Plantinga Mar 2024
Sticky
A matron of Memphis poured toffee
In water and orange juice and coffee.  
Her drinks were so sweet
She thought them a treat,
But a sleeve, if rested, ripped off me.
#toffee #sweets #limerick #rhyme #humor
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David Plantinga Mar 2024
Meowing
Impatient, a lion will roar
And kitty’s meowing at the door,
Because paws are fumbling;
At doorknobs it’s grumbling.
Once launching a robin can soar.
Just a limerick about how cats will meow at the front door.
#limerick #cats #pets #humor #rhyme
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Àŧùl Dec 2023
A sure day in future
My cute young daughter named Shatakshi
Asks, "Daddy-daddy what's this thingy?"
I, the caring father, with a gasp
Reply, "It is a fire ant that you grasp
And you hold where it has its stingy!"
A limerick for my future daughter, Shatakshi.

Another humorous poem. Another limerick.

HP Poem #1210
©Atul Kaushal
#future #is #daughter #limerick #sting #named #shatakshi
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Sarah Mulqueen Sep 2023
Innocence
Magic use to be fairies I'm sure
Anticipation we try to lure
Playing make believe
Oh to be young and naive
A world full of magical mystery
A Limerick about magic. The first thing I thought of when thinking about magic was my childhood, being determined to see a fairy. I wish that feeling of innocence never left us as we aged.
#limerick #magic #innocence #childhood
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