limerick
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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
Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023
For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
She donned a green dress, read a self-written limerick to U2 and invited the quartet onstage for an intimate toast of black velvets — Guinness mixed with champagne.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 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
This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
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
Week 1344, limericks featuring “gr-” words: Lady Liberty Her coppery skin has turned green, Her welcoming lamp is still seen, But her engraved invitation To join this great nation?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
He must’ve been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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