How was your weekend? For those of you in England, it’s a bank holiday today. I hope you’re enjoying it. Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your Monday whether you’re off work or toiling away.
Your new word is:
DRAMA
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word ZOOM in it somewhere. You came up with some very funny limericks:
I sat all alone in my room
Addressing my workmates on Zoom.
The whole of the meeting
Was ever so fleeting
From beginning to end… va-va-voom!
I once had a car that went vroom!
In fact that thing could really zoom!
But soon had to sell it
My hubby it never fit
Now, I might as well just drive a broom!
The modern world makes me sick
For everything occurs too quick!
Zooming here
Tweeting there
Everything is “now” at a click.
There was an old man from Khartoum,
Who invented machines in his room.
When once he was asked
His most difficult task
Said: “a 5-speed Sudan Chair with ‘zoom’.”
I zoomed up the motorway
To go to Wales for a stay
I went to Pwllheli
Which was very very
Beautifully sunny today.
Nicola Daly:
Remember the witch from Carlisle?
Well, today she had a big toothy smile
She showed them on zoom
How to fly on her broom
And in the most fabulous style!
‘Your task,’ said the chairman, on Zoom,
‘Was to trigger a holiday boom.
Instead, it’s a shock,
To find you sell rock,
In the shape of the Nude Bather of Frome.’
Carol Miers:
I wish to be never apart
The clock on the wall cannot start
The buzz of the bee
The hop of the flea
The zoom of the tick of your heart.
When anyone suggests I use zoom,
I have a sinking feeling of doom.
I am way past sixty,
My brain not so nifty,
Prefer to speak or meet in a room.
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Esther Chilton 
Some thought Marsha quite stern
Her glare could scorch and burn
No prima donna
Ignoring all drama
Yet human kindness she did yearn
**
Richard starred in the play
A drama by Danny Kaye
A comedy to some
To others quite dumb
It was a farce of the world today
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Danny Kaye was a great comedian of the 1950s (give or take). I am sure a drama by him would be scathing yet hilarious…
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I’m sure it would be! Thank you for these two gems.
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I have no doubt. Thanks, Esther!
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Don’t try too hard
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Sometimes they are birthed like Athena, whole and straight from my head, but other times it is a bit of a stretch…
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Driving out with my oldest friend, Bruce,
Realised we were dead low on juice.
After filling was done,
Money? Seems I had none.
Anyway, that is still my excuse!
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A very funny acrostic. Thank you, Keith.
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(Is this technically a true limerick? It just came to me in flash, so I’ve run with it.)
A politician called Starmer caused a terrible drama
When giving his speech today.
He used terrible grammar, then started to stammer
And f-forgot what he was t-trying to s-say.
**DISCLAIMER**
I’m not trying to influence the election in any way and the rhyme was made without fear or favour – it’s just that the words Sunak and Davey don’t lend themselves quite so handily. 😉 😀
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It’s not quite a limerick, but I love it so it’ll go in!
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Thank you, Esther. I know it breaks the ‘5 line and rhythm’ rule, but once it entered my head, I couldn’t override it no matter how much I tried. 😂
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😂
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There once was an old drama queen
Caused chaos wherever she’d been
Whether a concert or party
Afternoon tea or karate
The fallout was always obscene
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Hilarious! Thanks, Janice.
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With kids drama always occurs
Life with just two is less worse
You have one another
No drama, no bother
Well mostly, but that’s not a curse!
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Nice one, Kim!
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Thanks!
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Oh you can’t imagine the drama
When I went on a day trip to Palma!
I got stuck behind a tree
When I went for a pee
And then spat on by a cross llama!
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Very witty, Nicola!
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😂🤣
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My hubby was really into drama
He wad good at playing a farmer
In any old play
About yesterday
His knowledge of tractors? A, llama
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Ha, ha. Very good, Christine 😆
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I wanted to say alarming but it didn’t fit!
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I had no intention to harm her
No plan to induce such a drama
But my attempt to be charming
She found so alarming
That she bit me and claimed it was karma
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That made me laugh out loud. Thank you!
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Thank you Esther!
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Excuse me Richard, that last comment was meant for Esther! Not sure how that happened!! Loved your ‘Drama’ Limerick!
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With an election weeks away
Who will triumph, no one can say
Sunak or Starmer?
Ignore all the drama
Just make your vote count on the day
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With an election weeks away
Who will triumph, no one can say
Sunak or Starmer?
Ignore all the drama
Just make your vote count on the day
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In times of heightened drama
we may turn to the Dalai Lama
who says: ‘early to bed’
and ‘eat less bread’
which is sure to make us all calmer
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I’ll have to try it!
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There was a girl called Pamela
Who lived in Panama
She was so dizzy
Was always in a tizzy,
Oh, the drama when she lost her bra!
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That last line is so good!
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Thank you Esther!
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At RADA a kind of a drama
Shiva and Vishnu and Brahma
Went into a dance
Got stuck in a trance
Then God was reborn as a farmer
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I don’t want to alarm her,
The last thing I need is a drama.
But I did see her Barry,
Kissing her best friend ,Carrie.
Was it fate or maybe just karma.
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That’s an excellent one, Sheila.
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