For you limerick lovers..you know who you are ..OEDILF

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:31 pm

emmline wrote:While our Bloomenfeld gladly critiques,
Cynth's verses with nudges or tweaks,
Bloomie lacks the panache
Of a true Ogden Nash,
So I'm not certain wherefore he speaks!

Bloomfield and emmline in rhyme
Do battle from time to time:
"O. Nash you are not!"
"Dear, don't get hot,
Bring me another, shaken with lime."

herbivore12 · Post by **herbivore12** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:32 pm

I haven't got stomach for this:
There's brides fleeing 'fore conjugal bliss!
Michael Jackson is free!
(Don't you watch your TV?)
And now Chiffsters fight, rhyming toward crisis!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:16 pm

Bloomfield wrote:
emmline wrote:While our Bloomenfeld gladly critiques,
Cynth's verses with nudges or tweaks,
Bloomie lacks the panache
Of a true Ogden Nash,
So I'm not certain wherefore he speaks!
Bloomfield and emmline in rhyme
Do battle from time to time:
"O. Nash you are not!"
"Dear, don't get hot,
Bring me another, shaken with lime."

But Bloomie, that's not fair at all,
For to take me alone, you would fall.
I can best twenty foes
If I type with my toes,
So let's make it a C&F BRAWL!

(Oh yes, and as for your lime
I'd be glad to, but haven't the time.
But if you would be sweet
I'd like something to eat,
Chocolate cake would be more than sublime!)

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:32 pm

When Bloom and Emm have a brawl,
No prisoners are taken at all.
She leads with her right,
his brain is his Might
and we are agog one and all.

Slan,
D.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:45 pm

Never I'll take up the glove
Of war, but rather preach love:
Dear Em, an embrace!

(But don't turn your face:
I won't scruple to give you a shove.)

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:58 pm

A shave... a pair of spectacles....yay men.

Slan,
D.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:02 pm

Wow. I drove Bloom to violence. Or not. I'm not sure. Anyone?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:12 pm

It's all down to a post structural interpretation.

Slan,
D.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:30 pm

I know I'm going to regret this, but I must
"Turn to, and put out all [my] strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again."

The limerick is rule-bound apparently.
No syllable wanders round errantly.
Anapestic the beat,
Well-defined as to feet,
In me no such tricks lie inherently!

Note:Main Entry: lim·er·ick
Pronunciation: 'li-m&-rik, 'lim-rik
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?b ... a=limerick

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:22 am

That is just lovely.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:32 am

LoL. Emm, you're good at this.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:38 am

Thank you, emmline. Whew!

I'll take "lovely" with a grain of salt, but I will take that passing grade. I must admit it helped to look up what a limerick actually is.

http://www.sfu.ca/~finley/discussion.html

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:14 am

Cynth, by her art, has now topped me!
My meter and feet are oft sloppy
And my rhymes are no use
Well, the only excuse:
All I write, every day, is prose copy.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:53 am

Thank you, sir. Whew!

I believe my syllables did improve quite a lot and I must say that you did have something to do with my determination to redeem myself if I could.

Your quick wit, however, will never be topped by my slow, laborious efforts. emmline is in charge of wit for the female side.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:52 pm

Bloomfield wrote:Cynth, by her art, has now topped me!

Nicely done, Cynth. Brava!

Bloomfield wrote:....And my rhymes are no use

From whence derives the term 'prodigial'?
It makes an editor feel litigial.