Laughing Along With A Limerick

How was your weekend? Cold, if you live here in the UK! Here’s an apt new limerick challenge for the start to this week:

SNOW

Least week’s prompt was CHANGE. You came up with some great limericks:

Trent:

There once was a man from Boston

With a house big enough to get lost in

The change in his couch

Could fill a pouch

And dress half the world in Halston


After we decked the hall

And watched the dropping of new year’s ball

I wish most sincere

As we start the new year

Is for peace and love to all. 

Kim Smyth:

The girl set her goals within range

She knew it was time for a change

She tried to lose weight

Which turned out really great

Now she’s skinny but strange.

John W. Howell:

There once was a man from La Grange,

Who felt victim of a severe shortchange.

He shouldered an arm

And threaten to harm

Those who ordered his clock to change.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Change the bulb, came the cry

From the downstairs flat guy

No I said, it’s your turn

I did it last time, got a burn!

So he did and I saw his hair fry!

Annette Rochelle Aben:

Change into the right clothes

Because heaven knows

If you arrive dressed

Not wearing your best

In your face, doors close.

Frank Hubeny:

Our words work to force through a change.

Witlessly lives rearrange.

Though one truth can be true

while the false ones won’t do

our true words grow deceptively strange.

Sexagenarian Scribbler:

‘Please, doctor, tell me it’s not true

It’s just the change I’m going through.’

‘There’s no doubt,’ he replied

I just sat there and cried

I’m expecting at fifty-two!

Squirreljan:

There once was a time we embraced change

And were true to ourselves, with no range.

It’s much harder these days

As we’re set in our ways

This year, let’s let out our inner strange!

Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:

There was a young man who could sing

His vocals a wondrous thing

He had quite the range

And his voice he could change

To sound like the rock ‘n’ roll king.

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39 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. It’s no joke said the garage guy
    The snow is too thick, that’s why
    You can’t test drive it
    You won’t survive in it!
    Come in, keep warm, and stay dry!

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    1. That works very nicely 😊

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      1. Using a different rhyming first word is fun, then I slot the challenge word in a different place. X

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  2. There once was a town under snow
    Who were warmed from their fires aglow
    Soon it was melting away
    And they all knelt to pray
    For the sunshine and dry air to blow.

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    1. I really enjoyed that, Kim.

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  3. Stay inside all you please
    Shivering shoulders and shaking knees
    But when there’s snow
    Well, off I go
    To the mountains with boots and skis!

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    1. Love that, Trent!

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      1. Thanks, Esther!

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  4. Hello to the man made of snow.

    He appears in the garden, don’t you know.

    With coal black eyes, and a carrot nose,

    With twiggy arms he strikes a pose .

    Remembering a childhood long ago.

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    1. That’s really lovely 😊

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    squirreljan

    I braved the cold and snowfall yesterday
    And made a snowman on my balcony
    ‘It’s an alien,’ said my niece
    I agreed to keep the peace
    As it melted to a planet faraway
    Eek!!!

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      squirreljan

      I have a photo of said alien but I can’t work out how to share it. It’s truly amazing, ha ha!

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    2. Wow! That’s great, Janice. Really funny and different.🥰

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    squirreljan

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    Here is my alien snowman, Esther. I don’t do snow as you can see!

    Janice

    Janice Johnson

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    1. I couldn’t see the image. Not sure why, but I’m very intrigued!

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    Linkingpeople2003

    Once a penguin in winter attire in a town where the cold winds blow,

    Slipped on ice, oh dear, what a spire, where fell a blanket of pure white snow!

    He danced and he twirled and the kids laughed in delight,

    On the snow, he swirled till he stopped by the warm fire while building snowmen till night,

    Underneath the moon’s gentle glow!

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    1. Thank you for joining in this week 😊

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  8. These are great, Esther. Here’s my addition:

    There once was a goose with cold feet
    From standing outside in the sleet
    He hated the snow
    To the south he would go
    But the farmer was set on white meat

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      1. Lol. Sorry. It’s a rather grim poem, but I needed a rhyme for feet.

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      2. I’ll forgive you 😆

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      3. Thank you. I’ll try to be kinder with my rhymes going forward. 😀

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      4. But it was a very good rhyme 😊

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  9. Thanks, these gave me a chuckle on this wet cool morning

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    1. I’m glad it did, Joanne.

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    1. I’m so glad you joined in 😊

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  11. It is white. It is bright. It is snow.
    Down the street, if I’m forced to, I’d go.
    But I’m not, so I won’t.
    You ask, why? Well, I don’t
    really know and that’s all that I know.

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    1. Ha ha, very funny, Frank. Thank you.

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  12. […] fun little limerick for this week’s Laughing Along with a Limerick with Esther, with the prompt word of ‘snow’ […]

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    1. It’s great to see you back on the limericks, Ruth.

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    1. Thank you so much, Carol anne

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  13. I’m not one to moan, as you know

    But it comes as a bit of a blow

    That my journey’s curtailed

    When my train is derailed

    By the fall of the wrong sort of snow  

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    1. You’re so right! I think we can all relate to that excuse!

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