Friday, December 18, 2020

A Fondness for Limericks

I’ve always had a fondness for the Limerick form of poetry. It’s quite simple to do in five lines with usually an AABBA rhyme scheme. Often times they are raunchy, (like the one beginning, “There once was a man from Nantucket…) but for a family forum, they certainly don’t have to be. 



Such a year 2020 has been,

A lot of tempers worn mighty thin

We had an election,

One suffered ejection,

And now the Russians have gone and hacked in!

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