Happy Monday! Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week.
Your new word is:
TEACH
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word LUCK in it somewhere. You came up with some amusing limericks:
When Robin Hood met Friar Tuck
He thought, “Who’s this overfed schmuck?”
When he saw Tuck was carryin’
The gorgeous Maid Marion
He could tell Tuck the schmuck brought him luck.
Trevor Belshaw:
On the sofa with my girl Karen Buckie
Things were getting decidedly mucky
She’d just pulled down her frock
When we heard a light knock
And her mum walked, Christ! That was lucky.
There once was a lass from Bagdad
Whose luck was nothing but bad
Limericks thus stated
Are usually X-rated
So I will keep her family-friendly, if sad.
I won’t pretend to be a great bard
Writing poems is quite hard!
If my poem is good
It’s understood
I must have drawn a lucky card.
Graham Bell:
A limerick challenge with luck
In which you have to use the word luck
I’ll write luck once more
Then luck to make it four
And I’ll finish this rhyme with a fifth luck.
Finally I have had some good luck,
I found lots of gold in a truck,
It was hidden away,
In an old parking bay,
At the home of the pirate called “Hook”!
Nicola Daly:
The robber was clean out of luck
When he drove off in my favourite truck
He hadn’t a clue
In the back were my crew
Who would all give him a nasty left hook.
Some guys have all the luck
They can buy the biggest truck
But money isn’t all there is
To have a life that leads to pure bliss
Love of God will have you awestruck!
Just my luck to get caught in the rain
Without brolly or coat – what a pain
So I’ll just have to wait
In my wet soggy state
Till my soaked-through clothes dry out again.
Said the Duke, while shooting, ‘I’m struck.
That one needs, when explaining, some luck,
To avoid being befuddled,
And getting murds wuddled,
As one descibes the perfect pheasant pluck.’
First in to bat but no luck.
To my plan I religiously stuck.
The bowler, formidable,
My batting, abominable.
My innings were out for a duck.
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Esther Chilton 
The day that I started to teach,
Every rule I proceeded to breach.
An inspector from Essen
Cut short my first lesson.
How on earth is that not over-reach?
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You are so good at these!!
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You really are too kind, Kim 😁🙏
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That’s super! Well done, Keith.
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Thanks, Esther. 😁🙏
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The students I thought I could reach
About language were so hard to teach
Their lessons they ignore
Or were too hard to score
I wished I was now at the beach!
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At the beach? In this weather? You jest, surely! 😎
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I don’t blame you 😆
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I don’t know where you live, but if I were in Texas instead of Colorado, id be at the beach, lol!
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Not so good in the north of England. Max temp today (mid-June, remember) is 14°C, that’s 57°F
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Yuck! I’m sorry! Its summer time here, but so cool in Colorado that it’s hard to tell.
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With a hoot and a honk and a screech
The flamingo took off from the beach
‘It’s time to fly
If I stay I’ll cry
Cos those youngsters I just don’t want to teach!’
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Great stuff. Thanks, Nicola.
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So a doctor decided to teach
A young surgeon how to use a leech
But instead of attaching
It to a muscle, head latching..
Into the patients wallet, did breach!
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That’s funny. Thanks, Christine.
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Thanks Esther
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I couldn’t get the lyric “teach your children well” out of my mind but nothing went with it quite right. Oh well:
An anti-war story to tell
Graham Nash said “Teach your children well”
Feed them dreams
Where love beams
Perhaps they’ll avoid their parent’s hell
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It’s so hard when you can’t get something out of your mind, but that means you have to go with it. Thanks for this, Trent 😊
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There once was a dog who could walk
And a cat who could eat with a fork
She did very well
To cast such a spell
To teach a young frog how to walk
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Whoops
There once was a dog who could talk
and a cat who could eat with a fork
She did very well
to cast such a spell
to teach a young frog how to walk
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Very, very good. Thank you. Carol 😊
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My daughter loved to teach
Her pupils down on the beach.
They’d sit in the dunes
And sing out loud tunes.
To encourage the sun ,she would preach.
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That’s got a great limerick rhythm to it.
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Thankyou
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