Happy Christmas! I hope you’re all having a great day. But if you want a break, why not have a go at writing a limerick?
Your new limerick challenge is:
AWARD
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word EARTH in it somewhere. You produced some great limericks:
Ritu:
“What on earth are you wearing?” she said
As she took in the hat on his head
“Santa was sick
I was the next pick,
So this year it’ll be me wearing red!”
On Enterprise young Captain Kirk
Was trying to get on with work
To Earth they would go
At warp speed you know
Spocks eyebrow started to quirk.
They looked at me with cross eyes
Whispered that I wasn’t wise
Then they found my birth
Was on the planet Earth
So my faults shouldn’t be a surprise…
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Some say it’s a time to feast
I think it’s a time for peace
Earth is small
So please love all
From the great to the very least.
When aliens first visited Earth,
Many things caused much mirth:
How we walk, what we cook;
Our obsession with how we look,
But mostly how we still give birth.
Each time there’s one more human birth,
An extra mouth’s hungry on Earth.
Resource is so tight
That, try as we might,
How can we develop its worth?
A small alien who fell to Earth,
Landed in Scotland’s city of Perth.
Adopted a quaint Highland lilt
Got drunk wearing a kilt,
But was still given a very wide berth.
Oh, the agony of giving birth
I pushed and panted for all my worth
But despite all the pain
I’d go through it again
There’s no other joy like it on Earth.
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Esther Chilton 
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