Forsaking Limericks for Ballads — getting away from the AABBA
Limerick(s) of the Week for a Year!
That limerick of the week I'm to write
Should not be so unique it's alright
That it comes later than
Every seven days can
Such that my readers up'n'left, downright
.
After a year I've fallen behind
Gone out of sight and out of mind
It's just that I'm so sick
Of writing the limerick
I hereby up and resign
.
Where did they all get me?
Awash in kinky debauchery?
Maybe on paper
But not with my neighbor
Off the record they all rejected me
.
Though for a year I've gone the distance
In weekly consistent persistence
Doing Irish jigs
And rhyming the gigs
I think I'll just free-verse, perchance
.
A sonnet a week, a haiku a day
The other paths I could as easily sway
With wordsmithing well played
More likely I'll get laid
'Cause a ballad makes powerful foreplay
.
Sure I'll miss double entendres
Innuendos alluding sexual congress
But rhyming dirty
Just ain't as flirty
As my assonance with a sexy accomplice
.
Size doesn't matter
Hyperbole makes organs no fatter
But slip in a spondee
With some fricative and you'll see
That poetry makes her wildcatter
___________________
This is #54, so it's a wee bit more than a whole year. Consider it two extra, just for luck. Sadly, I may be all Limerick'd out! Retiring here a Limerick Writer Emeritus.
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
Keep reading
More stories from Gerard DiLeo and writers in Poets and other communities.
The steps to losing a child
Step One: Lose a child. Not what anyone wants to happen and nothing you can do to change it, but you can go through steps to becoming happy again. You can go through steps to loving again. You can go through steps to become a new you because after losing a child you will never be the same person you once were.
By Tabitha Hinkley6 days ago in Fiction
Comments (4)
Loved this, Gerard!
I had no idea that your Limerick every week was a one-year challenge! Congratulations on completing it! You rock!
Congratulations on completing a bold undertaking! I still find myself writing limericks constantly, even if only in my head. I haven't published many on Vocal since the Ludicrous Limerick challenge, but they're still one of my favorites.
Did I miss something? You've been writing limericks for a year? Di Leo, a poet extreme, Did decide on a challenge supreme. Every week he'd devote To a poem he wrote, Made of words never previously seen.