Laughing Along With A Limerick

I hope you had a lovely weekend. It’s now time for a new limerick challenge. Your word this week is:

HOUSE

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word WORST in it somewhere. You came up with some very amusing limericks:

John W. Howell:

There once was a man from Pine Hurst,

Who’s piano playing is labelled the worst.

He pounds on the keys,

Even using his knees.

Till every eardrum in the place is burst.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

One time I visited a house flood

It gushed through the door wood

What made it the worst?

It was from a frozen burst!

Water made a lake in the neighbourhood!

The Bag Lady:

Joe wasn’t the last, he was first

To taste his wife’s homemade bratwurst

Afterwards he was sick

Described it in word “ick”

Couldn’t believe it was the worst!

Annette Rochelle Aben:

She baked an awful pie

Although, she’d always try

Even her friends would run

When she’d offer them one

The worst! They could not lie.

Frank Hubeny:

He was woke. He was broke. He was cursed

By some demons who got to him first

Then a witch (maybe two)

Then that wizard who knew

That a wizard’s most likely the worst.

Kim Smyth:

There once was a man who was cursed

Because his behavior was the worst

So the witch cursed his name

He then fell from fame

Now the curse will be lifted on the first.

Richmond Road:

They rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed

But the play seemed incurably cursed

Nothing went right

On opening night

And each subsequent night was the worst.

TanGental:

The Devil smiled: ‘I’m well versed

In the best of ways to leave you cursed.

I could make you a lifelong vegan,

Or a leading light in Team Meagan.

You choose: which is the worst?’

Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:

This poem may not be my best

It may not be as good as the rest

It’s not my first

And it may be my worst

But it’s mine; if you haven’t guessed.

Treehugger:

I can’t think of anything worst,

Waiting for a boil on my backside to burst

I can’t sit still.

I feel so ill.

I do believe I’ve been cursed.


And now for a couple of excellent non-limericks on the prompt:

baldacchinodiperla:

When the worst happens

it is never shared

perhaps because it makes no sense

to do a nice gesture with care

towards someone that never came

poetessadeilibri:

Listening to a song from a timid guy

is like trying to call his voice with denial hun

every time his talent comes near

all the worst comes out as sex appeal

he is the precious kind is never done

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32 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. I have no limerick today
    I’ve nothing clever to say
    My “house” has a light
    But there is no one in sight
    My thoughts are as fluid as clay

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    1. I’m glad you have no limerick today, Trent!

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      1. lol, thanks, glad you liked my lack of limerick.

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  2. on the house

    free oh the mytery

    of why

    does not even come close

    to decry

    the sound of mice stirring

    machines destroying and whirring

    crash boom bang

    score

    and whats

    more sugar sweet

    and flat salt

    trampled under my sodden feet!

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    1. Thank you so much for this.

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  3. i left out an s. oh gosh. it was so fast and my mind manic and crashed!

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  4. Thank you for the mention 📝✨

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  5. […] Laughing Along With A Limerick […]

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  6. There once was a man and his spouse
    and a demon who haunted their house.
    They said, “Demon! You go!”
    And the demon said, “NOOOOOO!”
    But it went being more like a mouse.

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    1. That’s really funny. Thanks, Frank.

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  7. House! Shouted a woman, so loud
    You could hear her outside in the road
    She’d got all the numbers
    That the bingo callers
    Had announced and had won a load!

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    1. That is excellent! 😍

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      1. Wanted to do a happy one x

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  8. She searched up and down through the house
    Twenty years after losing her spouse
    Of him thoughts referring
    To Christmas occurring
    But nothing stirring, not even a mouse.

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    1. That’s excellent. Thank you 😊

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  9. These did give me a good laugh

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    1. Thank you, Joanne. It’s great to know you enjoyed them.

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  10. Thanks for the link. Here is the next.

    There once was a man with no spouse,

    They say he was a bit of a souse.

    I can’t say to you,

    That the label is true,

    I’ve never been to his house.

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    1. Hilarious! I really enjoyed that. Thanks, John.

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      1. Thank you, Esther. These are so much fun.😁

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  11. The hose posed no prospect to douse
    The flames then engulfing the house
    To this day she remembers
    The screams through the embers
    And the smell of her barbecued spouse

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    1. What a different second limerick! Very dark but very good.

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  12. My house there is calling me every time,
    I need to finish my tasks to be there again with new agility.
    Finding everything peaceful and lovable there again.

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    1. That’s love;y. Thank you for sharing.

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      1. Pleasure Esther ❤️

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  13. However far-fetched it may sound,
    Olfactory traces abound.
    Unless there’s a mouse
    Spreading smells through the house,
    Evil pongs from yours truly abound!

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    1. That’s hilarious! Well done on another entertaining acrostic.

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    The old house is haunted, it’s said

    And voices are heard from the dead

    So stare if you dare

    But better beware

    A ghost at the foot of your bed

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  15. She lives in a creaky old house.

    Having long ejected her spouse.

    They play chasing games,

    She shouts out their names ,

    Herself,the cat and the mouse .

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    1. Ooh, I like that. Thanks, Sheila.

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