And so it begins....
Expose more Expose all
Projoy - May I revise as I think you put a glow worm in the limericks (and vice versa)
I play in the Morniverse games
Raak - Wearing gold-plated spectacle frames
Chalky - But have noticed of late
Projoy - That they're losing their plate
KagomeShuko - So I guess it's time for new frames.
Projoy - Be young and be foolish, he said.
Rosie - So do it now, before you are dead (Pj) Yeah, funny stuff, alcohol. A small molecule that goes round the brain pulling out a few plugs.
muttleee - Because once you're deceased
goldfinch - Turns out everything's leased
Projoy - Sink your gold in a cask lined with lead.
CdM - O! Were it not for my vanity
Raak - I'd eschew this vexatious insanity
goldfinch - I’d cast off my qualms
Projoy - Call out saws; sing out psalms
Software - I'd live in total inanity
goldfinch - Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth[1]
Software - 'cos for now they just need a wreath
Projoy - All the toffees I chewed
penelope - And the plaque I accrued
muttleee - Means they're not even fit to bequeath To some lucky relative, obvs. :-)
CdM - On the day that the music ceased living
Radox The Green - I remember that I was then giving
Projoy - Out newspapers, news
goldfinch - Of the dry levee blues
Chalky - And such heartbreak went deep like a shivving
Software - While rooting around in my shed
Rosie - Up with which I soon got fed
CdM - Then off with which pissedreveal
Projoy - I was - you - grabbed my wrist (pass the parse-l)
Chalky - Which down balloon went like a lead
Projoy - The legs that I grow in my garden
Chalky - Need concrete and sun for to harden
Rosie - And when they are done
CdM - With concrete and sun
Rosie - I'll be stuck; can't move; beg pardon.
Projoy - I'm refined: I drink sherry and port.
Simons Mith - A mixture my grandmother taught
Tuj - Though she'd also opine
Raak - That strawberry wine
Rosie - Was poison, and lands you in court.
Projoy - Be awatch, for the tigers may come
Software - Sneak up and bite on your bum
Simons Mith - If they come from the side
goldfinch - You’ll be swiftly de-thighed
Chalky - Leaving one buttock startlingly numb
CdM - The most perfect example of karma
Chalky - Occurs if one unmasks a llama
Simons Mith - When their cover is blown
Raak - They despairingly moan
Software - They love to make it a drama
Simons Mith - Alpacas are much more relaxed
Rosie - E'en when their patience is taxed
Projoy - Can I suggest a tweak?:
Though their patience must sorely be taxed
By the wool in their eyes
CdM - And so it's no surprise
muttleee - That they're calmest when recently waxed
Pablo - So may we now welcome the spring?
Raak - Or is it but premature bling?
CdM - Should we really focus
Bismarck - On tulips and crocus
Projoy - Late April, O where wert thy schwing?
CdM - Although last month was awfully cruel
CdM - Often I come back and re-read these lines, and find the scansion/stress in my head is less clear on the page. :(

Although last month was awfully cruel
Software - So cold it used up my fuel
Raak - ("...all my fuel"?)
The forecast's Set Fair
Projoy - For somewhen; for somewhere
Chalky - So will now head south-east to Kitzbühel
Bismarck - Take one pound of self-raising flour
Projoy - And some free range eggs into the shower.
Chalky - Add dandruff shampoo
goldfinch - And a bath bomb or two
CdM - Then bake Gas Mark 4 for an hour
Projoy - I unwisely deployed a molossus
Rosie - A poetical speed-bump to boss us (Pj) That was difficult
Bismarck - The confounded thing
Chalky - Took an almighty swing
Projoy - And impacted my smarting probscis
When it's Friday you don't seem to know it
Chalky - Then you're told it's the Day Of The Poet
Rosie - But most say "Thank God"
Software - This verse is not cod Invoking polari
Raak - But the lim'rick's a cramped space to show it.
Projoy - The bin round has started and, phew,
Chalky - Now diesel fuel's refused - who knew?
Why not take a stand?
B I P HR