Happy Monday, everyone! Let’s make it a good week 😊
Your new limerick challenge is as follows:
WORRY
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SHORT in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
Ritu:
A short visit, if I may
Because I have something to say
When life’s a bit tough
And you’re feeling rough
Switch off, and have a play.
–
Now I don’t mean like a kid
(Though I wouldn’t blame you, if you did)
I mean, relax, kick back
Somehow find the knack
Of recharging, off the grid.
“Keep your poems short, if you please,”
Said the critic, with a sneeze
“Wadsworth you ain’t
Your vision is faint
Read too much and my mind’ll freeze!”
–
“He’s too short,” she said as she dumped Joe
Funny, as he is the tallest man I know
I won’t pry
About where he’s shy
Perhaps his temper is quick to go.
Lately my patience is short
Nothing good to report
Done with negative things
I wish I had birds’ wings
I’d fly to some topical resort!
Last week I really came up short
Pulled a ligament, am overwrought
Walking now with crutches (two).
I’m in a pickle, can’t wear my shoe.
From an ambulance advice I sought!
When born, they said I’d be short
And my life exceedingly fraught;
But I’ve increased my length
And with it my strength
On a diet of kimchi and port.
–
“Now listen,” my mother’d exhort,
“There’s one lesson that should always be taught.
Don’t pass up the chance,
To pee in advance,
And avoid being caught that bit short.”
There are things that a dwarf can’t be taught
For there’s books that for them can’t be bought
Likewise for an elf
Stuff from the top shelf
Out of reach for a creature so short.
Short is a measurement of height.
It can also show a difference in sight.
But impatient of mind,
I think you will find,
Hotheaded will cause you to fight.
–
To continue a theme that is short,
And I know I should be a good sport.
But words are my thing,
Cuz they won’t let me sing,
Perhaps I will simply abort.
I once knew a child named Short
He served an ace on a tennis court.
The ball went through the wire
And bounced off the church spire,
Which now has steel poles in support.
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Esther Chilton 
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