Laughing Along With A Limerick

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

Your new limerick challenge is as follows:

SPIN

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

Christine Mallband-Brown:

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!

Trent’s World:

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.

Kim Smyth:

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!

Keith Edgar Channing:

“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.

TanGental:

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.”

Ruth Scribbles:

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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21 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. I’m in a spin today
    I don’t know if I’ll stay
    My mood is low
    And I want to go
    For an ice cream on the way

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    1. I’ll have one too please!

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  2. Here’s my somewhat tasteless contribution… 🙂

    Gutted…

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    1. I see why you created a separate post for that one! 🤣

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    2. It’s great! Thanks, Ruth.

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  3. We took a spin and stayed at the inn
    Where the linens were scrawny and thin
    Multiple bites
    From the bed mites
    We set fire to the place for a win

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    1. Very good, Ruth. Thank you.

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  4. I took my man for a spin
    After drinks at the local inn
    He was too woozy
    From getting too boozy
    From now on he’ll think before drinking that gin!

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    1. Let’s hope he does 😂

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      1. Totally fictional, but I would hope so!

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  5. Oh the trouble I’ve got myself in
    My head’s in a terrible spin
    Should I resist his charms
    Or with open arms
    Let my heart rule my head and give in.

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    1. Decisions, decisions!

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  6. Clare Chaste, having necked some rough gin,

    Felt her head continually spin.

    ‘The floor’s on the ceiling
    
And I’ve a terrible feeling

    My yang has spilt from my yin.’



    I was told, ‘Always avoid a cheap djinn,

    Because once he’s got under your skin

    He’ll spin you some pish 

    About making a wish

    Which is when your troubles begin.’

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    1. Really enjoyed both of these. Thanks, Geoff.

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  7. I once wooed a maiden called Jenny.
    She could spin some fine yarn for a penny.
    I felt such a twit
    Till I learned how to knit.
    Now we make warm clothes for the many.

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    1. Sooo funny. Thanks, Lance 😊

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      1. Couldn’t pass on your prompt without a tribute to Spinning Jenny!

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