Happy new week. Here is a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is:
THIGH
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TEAM in it somewhere. You came up with some brilliant limericks:
I jumped at the sound of a scream
Emanating from just up the stream.
It sounded at first
Like a piggy had burst.
Turns out, ’twas the tug-of-war team!
Squirreljan:
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful team
Without doubt, they are the crop of the cream
They have a wonderful tag
Each one’s a beautiful ‘BAG’
Bee Appy Girls will always reign supreme.
Nicola Daly:
As I somersault along the beam
I’m cheered on by my screaming team
So why am I on a slimey log?
In the middle of a cold, wet bog?
Ah, it was all a golden dream.
Joe Schmo had a mighty dream
To star on a football team
Task never to meet
Having two left feet
Frustration caused him to scream.
My life’s a bewildering dream
In which nothing is how it might seem
Are you tired and confused?
Despised and abused?
Then baby, we’re on the same team.
Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:
Working in a team can be a pain
If you’re doing all the work again
You might be judged crazy
If you let others be lazy
And never speak your mind and don’t complain.
The Olympics, the GB team
Got up quite a head of steam
Medalling in hockey
And dressage jockey
Their gold medals all were agleam!
To be on the G.B.team,
Was Marigold’s impossible dream.
On the bars and the vault,
Was it all her fault?
Confirmed when she fell off the beam.
The team got all around gold
A spectacle to behold
But Biles did the best
Having been put to the test
She can retire now before she gets old!
There is no ‘I’ in team, that is true
But there is an ‘M’, an ‘E’ but no ‘U’
Whatever you say
We’ll do it my way
If you don’t like it, you know what to do!
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Esther Chilton 
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