So, it’s nearly the end of the week and time for my new writing challenge. Your three options are:
Option one: Write a limerick with the words HULA HOOP in it somewhere
Option two: Write a poem on the theme of BEAUTY
Option three: Write a ten-word story using all of the following words: MARMALADE, SNICKERSNEE, NINCOMPOOP, SKULLDUGGERY and CORDELIA
Last week option one was to write a limerick with the word TRUMPET featuring in it somewhere. Here are the laugh out loud results:
King of Limericks, Keith Channing delights us first:
A trumpet is oft made of brass
Or silver, if looking for class;
But never pour scorn
On the humble French horn
Or you may well be put out to grass.
Jericho’s walls had to fall
When Joshua gave trumpet call;
To save himself face
He surrounded the place,
So it wouldn’t descend to a brawl.
Some thought Nell Gwynn was a strumpet,
Others a fine bit of crumpet
You’d have to work hard
To beat her ace card
But given a spade, you could trump it.
If you have a big load, you can truck it;
If you’re stuck in a trend, you can buck it.
The gift of a drum
You can pass to a chum,
But a trumpet – you blow it, don’t suck it.
Tessa‘s will make you smile:
I used to know a strumpet
Who loved to play a trumpet.
Her notes were clear.
She was a dear.
But now she’s eating a crumpet.
Graeme Sandford gives you his hilarious version:
An elephant whilst eating a crumpet
Auditioned for ‘Modern-Day Strumpet
His favourite boy-band
In all of the land
And now he has joined them on trombone.
Jason Moody’s two are really funny:
His Father said ‘You need to pump it.’
So Clive blew on it just like a trumpet.
The tire stayed depressed,
His face was a mess
So he knew he just had to lump it.
Elaine was a ditsy old strumpet
Who had a penchant for a crumpet
She also loved jazz
And all the pizzazz
So in addition, she took up the trumpet.
David Harrison has written two fantastic limericks:
Jason has written a very powerful poem on last week’s theme – love:
Chocolates and flowers?
Is that all that I get?
For tolerating you
Now I’m rather upset.
I don’t expect diamonds
We’re not that well off.
But these for court confections
At these I must scoff.
How long is it now?
The years I can’t count
The lines and the wrinkles
They’ve begun to amount.
Now you’ve got a whole year
‘Til it comes by again
If you repeat this
Then YOU’LL end in the bin.
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Your second option was to write a poem on the theme of COLOUR:
Rajiv is first with his poem:
Black and white
Blue and green
I see the light
You know what I mean.
The colours, the tones,
The vibrance, the hues;
From cameras to phones
You have the clues.
My thoughts, my vision
They form my mission
To paint my mindscapes
Of Land and cityscapes.
The world is not drab
The colours make it fab;
You need just a splash
With balance, it’s a smash.
Black and white
Blue and green
I see the light
You know what I mean.
A regular in my Guest Writer Slot, Traci Aina shares her uplifting poem:
Colour me a story and I’ll paint it one by one,
Red is the passion where the writing dream begun,
Yellow is the sunshine that follows wind and rain
Pink is the compassion to wash away the pain
Colour is the story, count it one by one
Follow your dreams, it’s not too late, it’s only just begun.
Les Moriarty has written a beautiful poem:
Rainbow
There is a rainbow in my
world today
The colours of you are
everywhere.
Red for love
Yellow for sun
That’s all I need to get the
day done.
Blue for the ocean
Green for the fields
The thought of these make
my heart yield.
There is a rainbow in my
world today
If you were here we could
run away
Run and find the end of that
rainbow
Find our happiness, our own
pot of gold.
There will be a rainbow
someday soon
I know it
And so do you.
Option three was for you to write a ten-word story using all of the following words: PIZZAZZ, GODFREY, TWITTER and BAFFLED
Sacha Black always crafts a funny ten-worder:
Godfrey, the work idiot, was utterly baffled by twitter’s pizzazz.
Sarah Evans is enjoying the challenge of the mini-story:
Godfrey tried using Twitter. Got baffled, then he disappeared, Pizzazz!
Next up is Jocelyn Barker with a clever story:
Baffled at first, Godfrey now uses Twitter with pizzazz. Wow!
Rajiv‘s is also very witty:
Godfrey thought pizzazz was pizza. Baffled, he could only Twitter!
Jason Moody entertains with four stories:
Godfrey, full of creative pizzazz, took to Twitter, completely baffled.
Twitter baffled Godfrey. Show tunes and pizzazz were his forte.
“Use Twitter? Where’s the pizzazz?” Godfrey gasped, a little baffled.
It baffled Godfrey, the lack of pizzazz on that Twitter.
Here’s David Harrison’s ten-word story to finish:
“Twitter pizzazz!” cried Godfrey, baffled by tweets in the brain.
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Esther Chilton 
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