Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #23 and #24

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alee_grrl

Congratulations to untonuggan who won Challenge #21, the labor movement themed poem challenge. untonuggan would have also won Challenge #22, the readers' challenge as she was the only entrant. However challenge rule prohibit the winner of the writers' challenge from winning the readers' challenge.

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For Writers:
Challege #23: primeideal opened last week with some hilariously fun limericks. This weeks challenge is to write a limerick. Challenge responses may be posted directly in the comments, or you may post your response on your journal and post a link in the comments.


For Readers:
Challenge #24: Share your favorite limericks with others. Is there a reason they are your favorites? If so share a bit about those reasons. Answers do not have to be long and may be posted directly in the comments, or posted on your journal with a link provided in the comments.

This week's prizes:
Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice) by alee_grrl.

The winner for each week’s writing challenge will be chosen by a rotating volunteer from the community. (This week’s volunteer judge is untonuggan.) The winner for the reader’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: this week’s judge (ineligible for Challenge #23; eligible for Challenge #24); last week’s winners (ineligible for whichever challenge they won last week); the winner of Challenge #23 (ineligible for winning Challenge #24); and the POETREE admins, jjhunter & alee_grrl (ineligible for both challenges).


Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Friday, October 5, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced that Sunday.

Comments

a favorite limerick

[zirconium]

I'm fond of the young man from Dijon. Here's a post that provides the text, a translation, and a gloss: http://saintclementsblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/the-holy-pigeon/

An attempt at limerick

[snowynight]

From the radio comes a song,
"With you here I'll be strong."
The voice loud and clear,
leads to my big tear,
For I lost you singing along.

[gramina]

One of my own that might be TMI, but... well, it's that time of life:

The period that's called perimenopause
exasperates me beyond any cause
One month, there is nothing,
the next, such an upswing
I feel like an ER that's short of gauze.

And someone else's I quite like:

A poet who always wrote limericks
Was known as a terrible cleverdick.
They said that her verse
Was sarcastic and terse
Or silly and smart-arsed - you take your pick!
(Janice Windle)

[bookblather]

For all of us out there who can't just rattle these off.

A limerick's not hard to do
That's what they all tell me is true
To those clever blokes
Who got up my hopes,
I've one thing to say; screw you.

For Challenge #23 (not eligible to win because admin)

[jjhunter]

I originally wrote this limerick this week for aldersprig as part of the latest iteration of my 'Poem For Your Thoughts?' project ('Poem For Your Thoughts?': Special US Voter Registration Edition).

PATRIOT, OR I DO NOT THINK THAT WORD MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS

there once was a freedom of speech
that teachers their students did teach
but then came an Act
like a Big Brother pact
that acted on freedom like bleach