Happy Monday! Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your week.
Your new word is:
YAWN
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TEACH in it somewhere. You came up with some funny limericks:
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?
Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:
A class a young woman would teach
If they weren’t all at the beach
It wasn’t that far
So she set off by car
To the beach, her students to teach.
An anti-war story to tell
Graham Nash said “Teach your children well”
Feed them dreams
Where love beams
Perhaps they’ll avoid their parents’ hell.
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!
Nicola Daly:
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!’
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!
Carol Miers:
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.
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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Esther Chilton 
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