I’m on the mend after having surgery, as many of you know, so I’ve scheduled your new word prompt for this week. I’d love to read your limericks while I’m recuperating and I’ll be publishing your gems from last week and this week when I’m feeling better.
Your prompt is: WINK
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When I see a pretty girl wink
It seldom means quite what I think.
I fear if I smile,
A reaction hostile
Is likely to drive me to drink
you don’t need to be a deep thinker
to realise that old man is a stinker
when he leers at a girl
and makes her hair curl;
he’s not cool, just a bit of a winker.
Young Jack couldn’t help but give winks
Whenever he had a few drinks
Jill thought he was flirtin’
He ended up hurtin’
Now, before winking, he thinks!
This word wink
Has thrown me out of sync
I don’t know what to say
Might leave it for a day
What do you think?
A nod and a wink came my way
That I would get a cake today
I waited and waited
But it was not fated
Instead I got pretzels in hay!
For years, I could never find work
As my wink made everything jerk
But the prescribed medication
Has, to my consternation
Changed the wink to a continuous twerk.
I once sat right down for a think
About a guy who threw me a wink
Was he being coy
Or was I a ploy
To get me to buy him a drink?
Dark-glassèd, my neighbor would shrink;
“She’s crazy,” her friends would all think.
“I’m not lunatic!
“I just have a tic,”
She’d counter, whilst giving a wink.
Hope you’re feeling better each day! Here’s mine: https://breathingshallowpoetry.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/devils-wink-limerick/
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Hope you are on the mend Esther. Here is mine
I once met a boy with a blink.
.Whose affliction caused me to think.
I looked into his eyes and to my pleasant surprise,
This was not a blink, but a wink.
Esther Chilton 
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