LIMERICK CONTEST

2008-01-08T09:15:00.000-08:00

LET’S TRY TO GET A REAL LIMERICK CONTEST STARTED AGAIN HERE ON THE BLOG!

Hello Limerick Lovers,

Thanks to those of you who entered a limerick in www.limerickcontests.com. Like you, I love these funny rhymes and hoped the limerick contest would catch on with creative writers.Many people from all over the world visited the site, but there weren’t enough entrants for Sedric, the Chief Leprechaun, to award the 6 prizes listed. That’s hardly a contest!

I can’t figure out if the $2 entry fee was too much, or the prize not enough, so here’s what I’m going to try:

1.Totally revise the website – probably put it into this “blog” format.

2.Eliminate the entry fee – no cost to enter – limerick writers will be able to post their limericks as “comments” to this blog where anyone with a computer can read it and send links to their friends and families.

3.Replace the cash prizes with ones of literary or artistic merit. (That means books and/or fine art prints.)

4.When there are sufficient entries to make the competition fun, visitors to the website will be asked to vote for their favorites and the prizes awarded based on votes. May even let the winner choose the prize he or she wants, and then second prize chooses and so on.Here are some wonderful limericks by the few writers brave enough to enter the “old” contest on www.limerickcontests.com.They will be in the running for prizes in the “new” contest. Details will be posted here!

The bouquet, though thrown with much grace
Hit the bridesmaid square in the face.
She made this request,
“Next time would be best
If you took it out of the vase.”
Ed Harvey

The hill-billy’s one claim to fame
Was he married a good looking dame.
She left him one day
And to his dismay
She took everything but his “good” name.
Ed Harvey

At the zoo a boy said to his mother
“I heard one monkey ask of another,
‘I can’t see the link,
So, what do you think?
Am I my keeper’s brother?’”
Ed Harvey

Stopped for speeding and D.W.I.
He said, “Officer, please let me by.
It’s not you I’m fleeing
With you I’m agreeing,
But I’m broke and it was my turn to buy.”
Ed Harvey

There once was a vampire named Judd
Whose career was nipped in the bud.
He didn’t mind that
He flew like a bat
But he fainted each time he saw blood.
Ed Harvey

Krystal was good on the ice,
Her skating was better than nice.
It wasn’t her fate
For a great figure eight
So she skated the letter “O” twice!
Beth Shafer

There once was a boy from Peru
Who swore he had nothing to do.
He cursed and he stammered
Looked down and then hammered
A nail in the floor to his shoe.
Wanda Obermeier

As Thanksgiving came rolling around,
Not one blessed turkey was found
They all had absconded,
From being impounded,
And baked, buttered, basted and browned.
Flora Darling

A meeting of turkeys concurred,
Thanksgiving to be quite absurd,
So they made a quick contact,
For a Mafia contract,
To prevent the consumption of bird.
Flora Darling

I think, said the turkey, I’ll pass,
Your Thanksgiving dinner, alas,
For I have no intention,
To believe your abstention,
Of fowl in favor of bass.
Flora Darling

A confab of turkeys held court,
And consuming two bottles of port,
They boycotted Thanksgiving,
By all turkeys living,
And rented a seaside resort.
Flora Darling

If you would like to enter an original limerick, please post yours as a comment here.

As soon as I see if there is enough interest to keep the contest going, I'll post details and prizes right here on this blog!

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