Happy Monday! I hope you all had a good weekend.
Your new limerick challenge is as follows:
COUGH
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word CROSS in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
There was a fine lady upon a white horse.
Who rode like the wind to Banbury Cross
She’d heard a Knight was going that way
So excited was she to see him that day
But he never arrived and her heart felt the loss!
I bought a cross to hang on the wall
My husband secured it so it would not fall
The cross contains ashes
Memorializing Dad’s passing
Now it stays permanently in my hall.
Some awful awful Eurovision singers
Had started with crossed fingers
Still, they confess
The show was a mess
And their screeches still lingers.
Can you believe it? My boss
Repeatedly comes to work cross.
One day, after lunch,
She said, “I’ve a hunch
Some joker has stolen my floss!”
I’ve been described as quasi posh
Which has been known to make me cross.
It’s time to put this thing to bed
And reinstate my lost street cred.
‘I’ve lost the title and sold the hoss.’
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When I was accused of penning dross
I have to admit, it made me cross.
I might have eased my consternation
Had I asked for an explanation.
But, being frank, I couldn’t give a toss.
I can’t help but get cross with my Fred
His latest habit has made me see red.
I shouldn’t moan
Each to their own
But must he really do it in bed?
Suella’s a girl who thinks that she’s tough.
But, really, she’s very like Billy Goat Gruff.
“Thou shalt not cross!
Even if ALL you have lost.”
Soon, the voters will tell her, “Enough is enough!”
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Esther Chilton 
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