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What poetry form would best express your state of mind right now - Limerick or haiku?

Asked by JLoon (8568

) January 9th, 2021
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I can’t decide. Maybe a limmerku…

New winter moon shines
While Loon girl wastes her time
Swimming upstream

The river was full of water
She splashed like a mermaid’s daughter
They asked “Are you nude?”
She said “Don’t be rude!”
“I’m a very well trained skin diver.”

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Probably free verse, which is more often my chosen style, but if you make me choose between the two you have given I’d go with a limerick.

JLeslie (65419

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Sadly I’m not that interested in poetry. I’m not good at poetry either. I express myself better with free style writing which I do a lot, and any rhyme is just coincidence.

Mimishu1995 (23628

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There was a man from Nantucket, whose d…never mind, mixed company here.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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While the painters strive in vain, the shit house poet strikes again. I’m a poet and don’t know it.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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I got to cut lose tonight to get my mind off the Nazi scum suckers. Before I lose my mind.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@JLeslie – Sing your story!
@Mimishu1995 – Not rhymes with lot…but you knew that.
@Nomore_lockout – All things will pass, even that limerick ;)

JLoon (8568

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And the Nazis will too..And I’ll be happy to send them off.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore
He knows he is going to die.
But he isn’t going down without a fight.
He knows he is going to lose.
But this will be the least a honorable soldier can do.

In other word, don’t hesitate to call a bad person out :p

Mimishu1995 (23628

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I usually prefer haiku, but today I heard this lymerick

A lymerick by Lindsey Horner

A mob of the MAGA persuasion
Conducted a Capitol invasion
Though possibly armed
They parted unharmed
And that’s how you know they’re Caucasian

filmfann (52226

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A So Cal-style abbreviated haiku (4,5,4), will have to do for now:

I and my cat
Just lying around,
Gathering fat! ;-p

Brian1946 (32275

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@filmfann – Instant classic!
@Brian1946 – It’s the meaning of life ;)

JLoon (8568

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A cat getting fat is the meaning of life? Whould’a thunk it?

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore_lockout – Yess! Now you know :D

JLoon (8568

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I’ll be ding dang. I would have thought it was a yapping ass dog?

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore_lockout – That’s why we’ve all been lost for so long.

JLoon (8568

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Well stop the world, I want to get off.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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chicken chicken hi
how are you doing chicken
cockle doodle dooooo

rebbel (35549

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@rebbel – Perfect zen. Or maybe you just like eggs…?

JLoon (8568

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Here I sit waiting for a vaccine.
The hopeful answer to this bad dream.
It’s not my turn yet.
When it is I am set.
I‘ll see friends, family, the whole team.

JLeslie (65419

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@JLeslie – Masterpiece! And absolutely relatable.

JLoon (8568

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@JLoon I like me some poultry; haiku or limerick.

rebbel (35549

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@Nomore_lockout “I’m a poet and don’t know it.”

But your feet show it… they’re long fellows.

smudges (10724

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@rebbel – Inspiration you can eat!
@smudges – I see what you did there ;)

JLoon (8568

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You shouldn’tt end a line in a poem in English with orange . . . . .

”What rhymes with orange?
Orange rhymes with Blorenge (a mountain in Wales) and sporange (a technical word for a sac where spores are made). Of course, if you want to write a rhyming poem about oranges, the scientific or geographic research involved might be a little tough.”

Tropical_Willie (31125

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@Tropical_Willie – It’s strange the range you hinge on orange. It makes George so forlorn, and this porridge isn’t warm.

JLoon (8568

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Say what? I’ve entered an alternate reality..oh well, at least it’s clear of Trumpers.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore_lockout – I’m just “thanking myself”, again ;)

JLoon (8568

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For strange rangers and forlorn porridge? Backs away, slowly. Take two Tylenol and call me in the morning. Scratch that…think
I’ll drink two six-packs, and sleep in the morning.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore_lockout – Quitter.

JLoon (8568

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Lol cold blooded!

Nomore_lockout (7592

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This stuff is too heavy for me..Can’t rap my old skull around it. : (

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore_lockout – It’s not you, it’s me ;)

JLoon (8568

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@Nomore now you are making me worried. Yesterday I thought you were just blowing some steam, hence my post. Are you ok?

Mimishu1995 (23628

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@Mimishu1995 LOL I’m fine Mimi, thank you the concern. I was just blowing off steam last night, something I saw on Facebook about neo Nazis in Auschwitz t shirts. Plus I was bored silly at work. But all good : ) Just been a nerve wracking week, both politics wise and on the work front.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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Really I’m fine, Cup of bleach? Mind if I do? : )

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore ok I see :) That would make my blood boil too.

Mimishu1995 (23628

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@Mimishu1995 Exactly. But guess I’ll calm down and trust our politicians to do the right thing. Hope my trust is not misplaced.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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@Nomore if all fails, you can at least fall back on my previous post. It was a small part of a mini story I wrote about a soldier making a last stand. It’s better than to do nothing :)

Mimishu1995 (23628

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https://youtu.be/Bg1di8sGxWc LOL here ya go Mimi now you’ll really think I’m nuts.

Nomore_lockout (7592

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At one time they called me a hippie,
And I said “You bet your sweet bippie!”
Then they called out a pig
For the President’s gig
And the hippie turned into a YIPpie!

Strauss (23624

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@Tropical_Willie _”What rhymes with orange?..”

A Limerick Ending With “Orange”

He wobbles like he was a sporenge,
Do you think he’ll relocate to Blorenge?
The Welsh would not like it,
Were he even to spike it.
For his hair is exceedingly orange!

Strauss (23624

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