Category Archives: limericks

Christmas/New Year Limericks #poetry

Posted on Dec 26, 2020 by TanGental

As parents we parrot the mantra ‘Be good or you’ll miss out on Santa’. But they know we’ll regret Making good on our threat By morphing from angel to gangster. * Annually we solemnly resolveOur past crimes to try and … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Limerick

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 by TanGental

Courtesy of Esther Chilton’s prompt (this week ‘zoom’) With zoom, we’ve begun to obsess,on the question of how we should dress.Do we wear full regalia?Or bare genitalia?Face to face, there was never this stress. And for Dog lovers…

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Poetry? A limerick? Does That Count?

Posted on Jul 28, 2020 by TanGental

Esther Chilton prompts limericks on her blog, here. This week’s prompt was moan and this is what occurred… Make of it what you will… After an epic Kardashian moan,The devil turned Kim’s buttocks to stone.Being no longer callipygous*She became quiet … Continue reading →

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Do-gooders? Pah! #limerick

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 by TanGental

‘My life’s so dull,’ said Sir Galahad,‘Being seen as good is driving me mad.’‘All of this adulation,’‘Has given me constipation.’‘In future I will present as a cad.’

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Lockdown Limericks #poem #poetry

Posted on May 25, 2020 by TanGental

A doctor called Frederick Lee Tried sex at his desk with nurse Fi. It wasn’t successful And made them quite fretful Till she dressed in her full PPE. Or… George was a confident chap Who’d woo nurses with banter and … Continue reading →

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Hoarding…. #limericks

Posted on Mar 16, 2020 by TanGental

‘It‘s a risk,’ said the serial hoarder, ‘That I may cause civil disorder By buying up Frosties And making you crossties So I’ll probably stick to cornflakes…’ Or To hoard takes three things: there’s pluck And a significant dollop of … Continue reading →

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A to Z: A is for Aberystwyth

Posted on Mar 21, 2015 by TanGental

  I signed up for the A to Z blogging challenge for April, to see if I had the discipline. Here is the link and the rules. So I need a theme (well, it’s not strictly necessary but it does … Continue reading →

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