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Limerick writing Mark 2 alphabetical !

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NanKate Tue 06-May-14 11:52:29

Hi all your Limerick writers. Now we have passed 1000 on our previous thread are you ready to up the stakes and try to write an alphabetical Limerick ?

papaoscar Wed 18-Jun-14 19:16:26

Beaks sharp as an arrow

MiniMouse Wed 18-Jun-14 20:01:13

(Think Bs been . . . ermmm . . . discombobulated?? Moving on to C)

Creating a new line of verse

NanKate Wed 18-Jun-14 20:13:22

Can often be quite perverse.

AlieOxon Wed 18-Jun-14 20:24:36

Could be so good

MiniMouse Wed 18-Jun-14 20:40:47

Crumbs! By now it should

papaoscar Wed 18-Jun-14 20:53:39

Cor! Can it get any worse?

Ana Wed 18-Jun-14 20:55:47

Cos previous efforts were worse!

AlieOxon Wed 18-Jun-14 21:40:30

Don't let us run it all down...

papaoscar Wed 18-Jun-14 21:46:48

Doing it banishes a frown

MiniMouse Wed 18-Jun-14 21:55:24

Daily we all try

Ana Wed 18-Jun-14 22:03:23

Despite those who sigh

papaoscar Wed 18-Jun-14 22:38:08

Drollery helps for a clown

MiniMouse Wed 18-Jun-14 22:58:10

Every day we try really hard

Oldgreymare Thu 19-Jun-14 09:02:16

Emoting the Stratford Bard

Oldgreymare Thu 19-Jun-14 09:04:03

Mini please could we subsitute each for every?

Oldgreymare Thu 19-Jun-14 09:04:25

substitute.... sorry

MiniMouse Thu 19-Jun-14 09:57:18

OGM By all means!

AlieOxon Thu 19-Jun-14 12:53:23

(I don't understand 'emoting'?)

papaoscar Thu 19-Jun-14 13:05:18

(Emulating, perhaps?)

papaoscar Thu 19-Jun-14 13:06:58

Erudite, our pentameters

AlieOxon Thu 19-Jun-14 15:15:40

Exceeding the diameters

AlieOxon Thu 19-Jun-14 15:46:29

(NO)
Exceeding the parameters

MiniMouse Fri 20-Jun-14 10:30:25

Even the poetic verses jarred.

AlieOxon Fri 20-Jun-14 13:00:58

(no they didn't)

(I am not misquotingsmile
Far from the maddening crowd

AlieOxon Fri 20-Jun-14 13:01:37

(Dunno how that smiley got in)