Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows:
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Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPROUT in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
A well-to-do farmer from Brussels
Had two little doggies – Jack Russells;
After they’d eaten sprouts
He knew their whereabouts
By the fragrance from their bottom muscles.
I don’t know what she’s talking about
“Sow thy seeds and they will sprout.”
I tossed some here
I threw some there
And not a one came out.
How will you get your plants to sprout?
There’s frost and snow and ice about.
I’ll put them in a heated shed
Make quite sure that they are fed
To grow big sprouts and that’s no doubt!
She waited for her plant sprout
“Oh, when will it ever pop out?”
But nothing is done,
Or in one minute won,
After two she discharged her pout.
There once was a girl named “Sprout”
Because she was short and stout
But then she grew up
Into a willowy pup
And Dad won’t dare let her go out!
Once, an old man from Leeds
Said he only would ever ‘grow’ weeds.
He hated all sprouts,
Reeds, leaves; sauerkraut.
In short, he just hated his greens.
I wanted that baby to sprout
He did, and he started going out
He quickly learned words
Not uttered by birds
He’s a puzzle, of that, there’s no doubt.
Raw sprouts are Bony Tony’s thing.
They’re crunchy and peppery and full of zing.
But boiled, they’re mushy
And smelly and yeuchy,
And, for Tony, they’re only fit for the bin.
When choosing explosives, one stands out a mile
Though it’s never found in any missile.
While gunpowder, plastics are in with a shout
Nothing quite beats the humblest sprout
Which combined with my gut is truly fissile.
Linking People 2003:
Sprout germination of seed, edible,
Stored form of Solar Energy, incredible!
Leaves are Solar panels for biosynthesis,
Receiving Sun rays for photosynthesis,
H2O and CO2 into fruit and vegetable.
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Esther Chilton 
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