Limerick writing Mark 4 (animal, vegetable and mineral)

The prawn gave them all black coffee.

Drank wine and got high

They ate seaweed pie

And invited a limpet to tea

The scallop lay under the sea

But you need fatty lard to fry it!

The hippo was on a new diet
Walrus said, "Good idea, I'll try it!"
There are only some pilchards
Leeks, onions and chards

There are only some pilchards

Walrus said, "Good idea, I'll try it!"

The hippo was on a new diet.

With a gold ring of filigree lace.

And tiny gold tears

(Go with yours FarNorth you got there first! )

The steel chisel slipped

With hammered gold ears

(sorry error)

Was sculpted by man as a strong face (Line 2)

Was sculpted by man in a cave place

A rock and a stone in a hard place

Then chased girls in 'eels who were blondes.

And play on its harp

It did nothing but carp

(I can't count! We've had a traumatic weekend, so I'm blaming that!)

I think we have all been on the plonk

That was owned by a man called the Fonz

It was line 5.

You didn't count a line 3.

Here is line 1 of a new limerick :

There once was a fish made of bronze