The Limerick Challenge - You Can Write Your Own Limerick Here!

According to wikipedia A limerick is a five-line poem in anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which intends to be witty or humorous and sometimes a bit risque.  The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables. The defining "foot" of a limerick's meter is usually the anapaest, (ta-ta-TUM), but limericks can also be considered amphibrachic (ta-TUM-ta).
The first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines.

You too can write a limerick!  I challenge anyone to write your own limerick in the COMMENT Section below, just for fun.  Just Click on the Comment section and submit your own completed limerick.  Remember, 1st, second and 5th lines rhyme, and the third & fourth rhyme with each other.  Don't forget to sign it as your own!  Let's see how many variations we can get.  Please refrain from submission f you have a tendency to be quite nasty .....

See My Own Limerick Below as an Example:

The Liar's Limerick

"Poem: The Liar's Limerick"

There Once was a Man Deemed a Liar.
The Words from His Mouth Would Draw Fire.
He'd Tell You a Story,
Some Outrageous, Some Gory,
(All Embellished with Glory)
But Mostly of Muck and of Mire.
Cheryl E Gordon
5/20/10

(Yes, I know this is 6 lines; not the Traditional Limerick, But I like it this Way)

Jonathan Swift: Helter Skelter or "The Hue and Cry After the Attorneys..."

"Helter Skelter" or
"The Hue and Cry After the Attorneys
Going to Ride the Circuit"

Now the active young attorneys

Briskly travel on their journeys,

Looking big as any giants,

On the horses of their clients;

Like so many little Marses

With their tilters at their arses,

Brazen-hilted, lately burnish'd,

And with harness-buckles furnish'd,

And with whips and spurs so neat,

And with jockey-coats complete,

And with boots so very greasy,

And with saddles eke so easy,

And with bridles fine and gay,

Bridles borrow'd for a day,

Bridles destined far to roam,

Ah! never, never to come home.

And with hats so very big, sir,

And with powder'd caps and wigs, sir,

And with ruffles to be shown,

Cambric ruffles not their own;

And with Holland shirts so white,

Shirts becoming to the sight,

Shirts bewrought with different letters,

As belonging to their betters.

With their pretty tinsel'd boxes,

Gotten from their dainty doxies,

And with rings so very trim,

Lately taken out of lim--[1]

And with very little pence,

 And as very little sense;

With some law, but little justice,

Having stolen from my hostess,

From the barber and the cutler,

Like the soldier from the sutler;

From the vintner and the tailor,

Like the felon from the jailor;

Into this and t'other county,

Living on the public bounty;

Thorough town and thorough village,

All to plunder, all to pillage:

Thorough mountains, thorough valleys,

Thorough stinking lanes and alleys,

Some to--kiss with farmers' spouses,

And make merry in their houses;

Some to tumble country wenches

On their rushy beds and benches;

And if they begin a fray,

Draw their swords, and----run away;

All to murder equity,

And to take a double fee;

Till the people are all quiet,

And forget to broil and riot,

Low in pocket,

cow'd in courage,

Safely glad to sup their porridge --then,

Hey, for London town again.

[Footnote 1: Limbo, any place of misery and restraint.

"For he no sooner was at large, But Trulla straight brought on the charge,

And in the selfsame Limbo put The knight and squire where he was shut."

--Hudibras, Part i, canto iii, 1,000.

Here abbreviated by Swift as a cant term for a pawn shop.--W. E. B

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