Laughing Along With A Limerick

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

Your new limerick challenge is:

GRAVE

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

Keith Edgar Channing:

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.”

Trent’s World:

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.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

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!

Kim Smyth:

“I’m bored,” said Bobby with a yawn

Whose Mom worked from dusk to dawn

“Don’t tell me that,”

She practically spat,

“Or I’ll make you go work on the lawn!”

TanGental:

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.

Treehugger:

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.

Lance Greenfield:

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.

Val Fish:

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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28 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. As the bandit leapt from the grave
    Stealing nothing but what he could save
    The cops were there
    Said, “Hand over the ware”
    Putting an end to the robber’s crime wave.

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    1. That’s a fun one 😂

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      1. Thanks, I was pretty proud of that one! Thanks for keeping us in practice!

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      2. You’re welcome 🤗

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  2. The story is really quite grave
    They were washed out to sea on a wave
    Then a whale came along
    And gave them a song
    Plus a ride back to shore them it gave

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    1. That’s great fun, Christine 😁

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  3. There was a grave lass named Sue
    Who was part of a dismal crew
    No laughs or smiles
    Only frowns and trials
    An early grave is in her view
    *
    At Halloween we had a scare
    Ghouls and spirits and things we fear
    Graves wide open
    There’s no more hopin’
    Spooks are in the air

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    1. I enjoyed both – felt sorry for Sue and loved the open graves in limerick number two!

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      1. Maybe I should have called “Sue” “Wednesday”, because that is the type of character I had in mind… Thanks!

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  4. (I entitle this one, ‘Life – a summary’)

    We work and we scrimp and we save
    We behave how we’re s’posed to behave
    Obedient fools
    We just follow the rules
    Then politely march off to the grave

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    1. That’s very true! Thank you for this.

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  5. When Bob Death revealed his grave
    Including an ornate architrave,
    There was some conjecture 
    Whether this architecture 
    Was simply mad or very brave.

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    1. An apt name. Reminds me of your very good short story collection.

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      1. You’re too too kind!!

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  6. Grave news,” said my manservant, Bob
    Roberto has got a new job.”
    Away then,” I cried,
    Very good, Sir,” he sighed,
    Expecting a smack in the gob!

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    1. That’s very funny. Thanks, Keith.

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  7. The boys agreed to be brave
    And set up the gym for a rave.
    This reading and writing
    Is not so exciting.
    But the Head overheard and looked grave.

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    1. That’s very witty. Thank you 😊

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  8. With a tinkling of bones he arose
    From his grave, but minus his toes.
    Danse Macabtre was heard,
    But it sounded absurd.
    Bony Tony was missing some tones.

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    1. I always love a Bony Tony limerick 😊

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      1. Where did that intrusive ‘t’ come from?!
        Must have been my twitchy finger on my dog-walk.

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      2. It’s so easy to do!

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  9. […] trite remarks about other people’s posts. But I repeat one here, because it came from a post from Esther encouraging limericks featuring some reference to the word ‘grave’ and limericks, of course, […]

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  10. […] week’s #limerick prompt is […]

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  11. Sorry if I’m too late but I couldn’t resist…

    The look on his face was grave,
    A decision on whether to cave.
    But with a silly old grin,
    And a wipe of his chin,
    The button he pushed was save!

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    1. You’re not too late! Glad you couldn’t resist 😊

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