Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a good weekend.

Your new limerick challenge is as follows:

BARK

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word DRIVE in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:

Christine Mallband-Brown:

On Sunday last we went for a drive
We made good time, and soon did arrive
At a lovely city
It was so pretty
Then set back home at five to five.

Kim Smyth:

Twenty one when she learned how to drive
Had a kid when she turned twenty-five
Driving too fast
She surely would crash
It’s a wonder that she’s still alive!

Keith Edgar Channing:

Does this feel like being alive,
Replaying last Thursday’s whist drive?
I want to destroy
Vicarious joy
Except with a doggy called Clive!

TanGental:

When asked why he’d demolished his hive
The bee said, ‘I was told I needed more drive.
It wasn’t for money
Nor extra honey.
I was stung, more dead than alive.’

‘It’s easy,’ said murderer Clive,
‘Once my victims are no longer alive.
I grind them to mincemeat,
Cover them in concrete
And roll them flat, as part of my drive.’

Ruth Scribbles:

There once was a dull assistant
Who was very inconsistent
She took a long drive
And drove to a dive
Now the help is nonexistent.

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17 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. “Come on then,” she said, “for a lark,
    I want you to make that dog bark.”
    I cocked up one knee,
    Pretended to pee,
    Then went for a run round the park.

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    1. I’d like to see that 😂😂

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  2. There once was a tree in this spot
    Whose bark began to rot
    At the end of a lead
    A barking dog peed
    And ruined the wood, that sot!

    *
    A little dog was in a fight
    Against one twice his height
    Without a blow
    He won that row
    For his bark was much worse than the bite

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    1. These are good fun. I really like how you’ve managed to get the two different uses of ‘bark’ in there!

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      1. Thanks, Esther! My first thought was to try to get the two meanings in the first. The second one was 100% just for fun 🙂

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  3. I fell and barked my shin
    I also hurt my chin
    My head it hurt
    Got blood on my shirt
    A fight that I didn’t win!

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    1. Very good use of the prompt!

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  4. Brandy would bark at the sight
    Of cats running round in the night
    She’d hop like a bunny
    Which we thought was funny
    And not too much caused her fright!

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    1. Ha, ha! Dogs do that!

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      1. I made it up, but she did do that!

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  5. I once heard a bark in the park
    And wondered aloud in the dark
    “Could that be a dog?”
    “Or maybe a frog?”
    It was someone having a lark!

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    1. Very witty, Ruth 😊

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      1. Thank you. 🙇🏻‍♀️

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  6. When my dog lost his sweet bark
    I saw a young vet called Mark
    ‘It might seem absurb
    He thinks he’s a bird
    With a beak and the song of a lark.’

    Of the problems that emerged on the Ark
    The worst was when the dogs lost their bark
    Noah called the Almighty
    Who just said ‘Oh crikey’
    Try prayer with a portion of snark’

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    1. Thanks for these two 😊

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