Re:Knightmare Limericks
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But then retired to put things their locker
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We know 'cause we saw it on telly
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Motley called a girl Smelly Melly
We know 'cause we saw it on telly
She wasn't best pleased
As she was constantly teased
And so they had a fight in some Jelly!
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Found himself laying in some hay
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He had a fight with Hordriss,
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[I know this is a fun thread, but there are guidelines for writing limericks; not just about rhyme, but about rhythm as well; and if a rhythmic pattern isn't maintained, it does get more difficult to keep the poem itself (and therefore the fun) going. Which is perhaps why this one had ground to a halt.]
Then let out a bored hiss
[One more line, and this becomes the thread's 64th completed limerick! (Unless I've miscounted.)]
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He just had nothing left to say.
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While Lillith sat counting her sweeties
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A Goblin pinched one of her Cheeksies
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I know this thread is for fun, but using a word that doesn't really rhyme, nor really exist, takes away the element of challenge, which for me is part of the fun. So could I please suggest changing 'Cheeks's' to 'treaties'?
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I know this thread is for fun, but using a word that doesn't really rhyme, nor really exist, takes away the element of challenge, which for me is part of the fun. So could I please suggest changing 'Cheeks's' to 'treaties'?
Bzzzzzarp! Hitting the English language with a sledgehammer is all part of the fun. I seem to remember one day at school in a Latin lesson (Brother Mace would be impressed...) our task was to write poetry (in English - Latin would be far too hard) about some bloke called Horatius who beat an entire army single-handed - or something like that. I seem to remember a couple of lines of my effort read something like this:
*And so the knights used their axes
To make the bridge fall down in stackses...*
And I thought that was a stroke of genius. What else rhymes with "axes" anyway?
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In my view, the poem must rhyme and scan properly, and the English language may be mutilated in the alteration of words stress, spelling and/or pronunciation to see that it does. Examples:
"Her English is too good," he said, "which clearly indicates that she is foreign.
Whereas others are instructed in their native language, English people aren'."
- Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er,
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatara.
- Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate
It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices all goods from cough mixtures to cables
(Which tickled the sailors), by treating retailers as though they were all vegetables.
- W. S. Gilbert, Iolanthe
Anyway:
Said Lillith, "Good gracious!"
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And of course, the Frosties jingle:
"They're gonna taste gray-ate with Tony your may-ate,
Everyone knows Frosties tay-aste gray-ate,
Even ladies who way-ate, or a pi-ray-ate."
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To continue this thread, I've picked the more compelling option. Mainly 'cos the fact that I've left it in inverted commas implies something smutty!
While Lillith sat counting her sweeties,
A Goblin pinched one of her 'treaties'
She tugged on her lever...
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