Limerick’s Feud Renewed
National Limerick Day is Today, May 12
The limerick wrote a soliloquy
In which he explained his hostility
About forms that look down
Lyric form called him “clown”
Then, pastoral questioned his virility
See the limerick caused quite an outrage
Approached a young haiku on the Hub’s page
“Your syllables tempting.”
Her response preempting,
“Only seventeen — I’m just underage.”
Lim’rick scoffs, then I’ll French a nonét.
Nonet rhymes with “ette”, not with “OK”
She’s a cat with nine lines.
And your five so confines,
Plus your humor is yet too risqué
The lim’rick fell in love with the sonnet
The sonnet wore nothing but a bonnet
The lim’rick also nude
Hogged the whole bench — how rude
But he offered to let her sit on it
Next, the limerick said, “I’m agnostic,
But I note your religion’s acrostic.
The first letter each line
Spells your title, that’s fine,
But spellcheckers have made…
