π€£ How have I only just learned there is such a thing as National Bad Poetry Day?!
Today I will write you a limerick if you give me a word of up to four syllables.
Because is there any form more delightfully, satisfyingly terrible than the limerick?
@MLClark "Hopping"
Two syllables! Good luck ^_^
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There once was a hare who went flopping
through a puddle where someone was mopping.
"Should've read the sign!"
the grouchy mopper opined -
but what good were mere words for those hopping?
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I had a great point of inspiration! π #Teamwork
@MLClark
Society
good luck π
I mean, who can top the poetry of the Joker's "We live... in a society" π but okay!
--
There once was school of sobriety
that taught lessons for life in society:
Some can handle a taste,
but if it leaves you red-faced,
best to give up on the project entirely.
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π TERRIBLE - and therefore perfect.
"end up in" - "Honestly, doc, I have no idea what happened here!"
@MLClark
(I know nothing of the Joker, lol)
You get π & a π
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Brouhaha or Bodacious, your choice π
@MLClark "Recidivist." π
ππ»π As per our conversation the other day about the inevitability of imitation...
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There once was a hapless recidivist
with exceptional skill as a plagiarist--
He'd try to go straight
but all too soon replicate
every other writer striving for distinctiveness.
@MLClark I came up with one but, in the grand tradition of limericks, it was far dirtier ...
Back to your paying customers.
π My first thought was to rhyme "recidivist" with "sit on this", so - fair. Do post away! The day is for us all.
Kate met a recidivist
They began a week-long tryst
It was a trap
He had the Clap
She wound up with a cyst
(I warned you ...)
π€£ Okay, for that, you now get my original plan, before I decided to take the higher, more "intellectual" ground:
Once a randy young man made a fist
and told his sweet lover, "Sit on this."
A crime against physics?
Well, I won't get into specifics...
But in time they'd be frequent recidivists.
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@MLClark A new round ... The word is "Organian" ... Me first:
There once was a clever Organian
His ears made him look Vulcanian
When the Klingons attacked
Their passports he hacked
To make them all Canadian. π¨π¦ π€£ π€£ π€£
π That's either a proto-Organian or one on diplomatic mission, on account of its corporeality at all, but fair enough! We accept all ridges and ear-types up north!
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There once was an errant Organian
who longed for the means to feel pain again--
but when push came to shove
in the body it had taken hold of,
it rushed back to its life as a light-ray-dian. :)
@MLClark nefarious
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There once was a man so nefarious
his life left the world more precarious.
But lest you believe
in some brilliant scheme--
No, he inherited the means by which he'd bury us.
@MLClark π
I think we are adequately proving that the limerick is indeed the most delightfully terrible poetic form. π Back to work with me now! Will reply to any further prompts later! π