poetry

  • Happy Monday. Here’s a new limerick challenge for you. Your new word is FAKE Last week’s word was WEED. Here are your limericks: Squirreljan: The mad old biddy from Bath was looking for funSo she called upon her hippy great-great-grandsonTo come to her at speedWith some cake and some weedFor a smoke, then a sleep, then…

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  • It’s limerick time. Your new word is WEED Last week’s word was TRAIN. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘I’d love to catch a fast trainSip champagne and stare through the paneWatch the world fly byArrive by and by…’‘On Avanti*? Dream on, you’re insane..’ *Avanti is the company that runs the trains up here. It is…

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  • Here is a new limerick challenge for you this fine Monday. Your word is TRAIN Last week’s word was BILLS. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: His icy voice gave me the chillsI wanted to run to the hillsHe put his hand in his pocketAnd pulled out a ‘locket’‘Can I use this to pay off all…

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  • It’s Monday already – the summer is flying by! Here is a new limerick challenge for you. Your word is BILLS Last week’s word was JELLY. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: Remember that witch from Carlisle?Casts spells with glorious styleHaven’t you seen her on the telly?Stirring something that looks like jellyAnd on her face is…

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  • I hope you had a great weekend. Here is a fresh limerick challenge for you. Your word is JELLY Last week’s word was ROAD. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: How dare you ride down this road!Now I’ll have to turn you into a toad!Only I have the notionThat I’ve left the potionIn my safe –…

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  • I hope your week is a good one. Here is a new limerick challenge for you. Your word is ROAD Last week’s word was HEAT. Here are your limericks: Nicola Daly: ‘This heat, makes me think I’m in Crete,’Said Penny to her boy friend Pete.‘I’d love a swim in the seaCalamari for teaThen followed by an…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive. This week’s guest is appearing for the first time on…

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  • It’s been a scorcher of a weekend in the UK, so with that in mind, your prompt word is: HEAT Last week’s word was WARN. Here are your warnings: Nicola Daly: ‘I don’t like to blow my own hornbut you’ll see that I’m built – well,, fair brawn’And with a warning smileHe dropped his kilt…

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  • I’m back from my break and ready to get going again. So let’s kick this Monday off with a new limerick challenge. Your prompt word is: WARN You had two weeks to complete the prompt while I was away. So I gave you two prompt words: CLEAN and PRINCE. You wrote such fun limericks: The…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    If you’d like to be included in this slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great. All I ask is that there’s nothing offensive.  My guest writer this week is appearing on my blog…

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