Happy new week and for those of you in the UK, happy bank holiday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word this week is:
SNITCH
Last week’s prompt was BEEP. You came up with some fabulous limericks:
Tony:
A flash in the night,
a beating heart of steel,
a tiny call
between two worlds,
BEEP – I’m here.
Nicola Daly:
There once was a bit of a barmy old sheep
At night his bottom used to toot and beep:
‘To aid my digestion
I’ve had the suggestion
Sticking to tatties and neeps will help me sleep!’
The water meter started to beep
As the flood began to seep
Under my door
Onto the floor
Which ended my comfy warm sleep!
There’s a beep in my brain going peep.
It’s annoying. I’d better count sheep.
With that beep in my head
there’s now sheep in my bed.
It’s no wonder I can’t get to sleep.
There once was girl called Bo Peep
With no herding dog for her sheep
She jumped in her Jeep
Gave her horn a good Beep
And chased all the sheep to their keep.
The Roadrunner sped with a beep,
While Wile E. plotted and leaped.
With gadgets and schemes,
And Acme-built dreams,
He always fell flat in a heap!
Beep beep, beep beep,
Keeping me from sleep,
An annoying sound
Comes from all around
My language is now a BLEEP!
Olaf Sturlasson’s Poetry Corner:
There was an old man fast asleep
As he opened his eye
He thought where am I
Whilst driving an old Willy’s Jeep.
A robot who just couldn’t sleep,
Kept dreaming of goats in a jeep.
He’d toss, turn, and leap,
Then let out a beep!
And scare all the sheep with his peep!
Cherish the noise of the beep
Of alarms that wake you from sleep
They could save your life
Or your kids and your wife
Make sure in them fresh batteries you keep!
The yellow chick says, “peep,”
To little bo-peep,
To the black sheep,
To Felipe, who always sleeps,
to the musk sheep who says “beep.”
There once was an old man named Trump
His speeches belonged in a dump
Hosts wanted to push beep
So his hate words they could bleep
But they needed a bigger sump.
beep, cheap, cheep, reap, deep, creep, heap, jeep, keep, leap, peep, steep, weep,
***
There’s lots of words that rhyme with beep
To list them all would be a heap
But that’s what I did
And nothing was hid
Does that really make me a creep?
***
The roadrunner went beep beep
As he drove around in his jeep
But the coyote was sly
As roadrunner drove by
He yelled, “Listen bird, read ’em and weep.”
Jester the adventurous jeep:
There once was a jeep named Jester,
Who loved to explore and to test her.
One day with a beep,
It caused quite a leap,
As he zoomed past a bright yellow jester.
There once was a driver named Lou,
Whose horn made a cranky “Beep-Ooh!”
When folks got in his way,
He would angrily say,
“Move your arse, you bloomin’ yahoo!”
As I tried to descend into sleep,
I could hear a continuous beep,
Before I was mesmerised,
Very slowly I realized
Someone was trying to make off with my Jeep.
***
Esther Chilton 
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