Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:
CHATGPT
This week’s deadline has gotten too tight.
Can you write me a limerick tonight,
With a joke or a pun –
What? You’re already done?
Say, that sounds like a limerick I’d write.
From the archive
THE LIMERICK
It’s the silliest syllogism
And a metrical mechanism
For amusing a bloke
By telling a joke
Or conveying a witticism.
(2018)
LIME SCHEME
A perfectionist poet was picky
And found writing light verse rather tricky,
So he sought inspiration
From an apt distillation
In a perfectly punny lime rickey.
(2004)
THE LONG & SHORT OF IT
Let iambs and anapests meet,
Dactyls and trochees compete,
But give yourself time
To get to each rhyme
Or you’re bound to trip over your feet.
(2002)
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Did this limerick just appear?
Was this limerick always here?
Surely you know it
Betokens a poet
Like Duplantier, Nash, or Lear.
(2001)
INCOMPLETE LIMERICK
You may think that I’m pulling a prank,
But I’m trying my best to be frank:
In my search for a rhyme
I have run out of time,
So you’ll just have to fill in the ___.
(2000)
Last week’s limerick
TEACHER’S PET PEEVE
“I will try to remember your names,
But reject any petulant claims:
What ‘your pronouns’ are
Is a bridge too far
And I won’t play ridiculous games.”