Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy Monday, all! I hope you had a great weekend and this week is a good one.

Your new limerick challenge is:

YAWN

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word GUILT in it somewhere. You produced some fantastic limericks:

Keith Edgar Channing:

Guilt is a feeling quite painful

Unproductive and kind of disdainful.

It can lead to depression,

Low spirits, obsession;

Try doing a job that’s more gainful.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

The builder still felt a great guilt

With RAAC concrete the roof was built

The school was shut down

As the roof made a groan

But luckily no blood had been spilt!

Kim Smyth:

A girl with guilt, had tears that spilt

Down her face and onto her lap

She cried enough

So her nose was stuffed

And a Kleenex pile she built!

Chris Page:

The first time Gerald used RAAC

He thought there was no turning back

And so he felt no guilt

When after it was built

The ceiling started to crack.

TanGental:

With no trace of shame or guilt

Confident Donnie lifted his kilt

But when Annie McCloud

Laughed out loud

Donnie’s resolve began to wilt.

Lance Greenfield:

Someone has spiked the teachers’ tea.

The staffroom was locked, so who has the key?

He emptied his pockets,

So all could see:

“NOT GUILTY!” was Bony Tony’s plea.

Sarian Lady:

It’s Wales versus Scotland,

And I’m riven with guilt.

As we sing Bread of Heaven,

You can hear us in Nefyn.

And my partner rocked up in a kilt.

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23 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. There once was a child named Jim
    Who felt they were a “her” rather than “him”
    Mom’s yawn hit their core
    But she’d heard it before
    Jim had been born as Kim
    *
    I am not making fun of trans people in general, just Kim/Jim, who can’t decide where they fall…

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    1. I like it! Thanks, Trent.

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  2. I woke with a great big yawn
    As I got up this September morn.
    I had to sleep on the sofa
    With a great deal of woe for
    ” can’t get upstairs yet” I’ve sworn!

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    1. I hope you can soon!

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      1. Oh yes! It’s getting cold in the mornings I need my duvet. Yawn

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  3. “I’m bored” said Bobby with a yawn
    Who’s mom worked from dusk to Dawn
    “Don’t tell me that”
    She practically spat,
    “Or I’ll make you go work on the lawn!”

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    1. Very witty, Kim. Thank you.

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      1. Thank you, Esther!

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  4. Jim and I shared a few beers.
    I asked what he thought of his peers.
    “I will not be drawn,”
    He replied with a yawn,
    “Their bickering bores me to tears.”

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    1. That’s a fun one. Thanks, Keith.

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  5. Janice Smith used every sort of yawn
    As a subtle way to warn
    That if Harry said ‘I’ll cook out’
    You should be upon the lookout
    For stale buns and burgers made from quorn

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  7. My agent has set me a deadline,
    I’m writing from dusk until dawn.
    He feels that my book is all rubbish,
    It’s boring, too awful to publish.
    Oh dear, he’s now started to yawn.

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    1. That’s really funny!

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  8. Bony Tony set an elephant trap.
    He hid it well with all sorts of crap.
    It’s placing forgotten,
    For his mind was rotten,
    He fell down deep into his own yawning gap.

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    1. A great use of the word prompt!

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    Awake till early hours of the morning
    It’s no wonder I can’t stop yawning
    I hope tonight
    I can sleep tight
    Right through until next day is dawning

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    1. I love the rhyming to this one 😊

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        SexagenarianScribbler

        Thanks Esther

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