limerick

Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

"And it's a limerick poem - a five-line poem - which I've written on a pen pot with three crayons in to represent the pastel that Lowry used."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Essentially, raucous processions involving songs and the rattling of cacophonous instruments, the performance of short plays and bawdy limericks, and the burning of effigies occurred outside the homes of the accused.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

For those for whom limericks are too long-form, the Empress brings you the third installment of our Loserly version of haiku:

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021

Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2020

"Well Matilda, I would very much like to hear one of these limericks you say you have written. Could you try to remember one for us?"

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl