Candorville by Darrin Bell for November 13, 2018

Did Rosencranz say about or ’bout? I don’t see him as the kind of guy who drops syllables.

Yawn.

Building holds two men

Backdrop for their lives it seems

By God’s grace not mine.

Rosencranz apparently pronounces the word “lim-e-ricks.” Don’t most people drop the “e,” a la “limricks?”

See my comment for 10th November, and combine the two..The Poet Foresees His Death in a Drop of Rain

Autumn rain drips,Walking girl slips.Yobs cry “Ha!“Boo!” and “Ya!”—-Foolish quips.

I read the comics/. To rest from the stressful world/. but Hiaku are work!

We speak, we wait, sit

Wondering how time cuts us

Yet no insight gained

Life idle, no work

Begging for coins from workers

Deaf to winters cold

I much prefer Limericks to Haikus

There was an old man from Nantucket…..

Actually stopped over in the town of Limerick in ’68.

To all those who wrote / Comments not in haiku form / Shame lies upon you.

The Real Challenge is writing a Clean Limerick.

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A certain young fellow named Beebee

Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe

“But,” he said, "I must see

What the minister’s fee be,

Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebee."

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Aye-aye-aye-aye,

In China they do it with chili

So sing me another verse

That’s worse than any other verse

Make sure that it’s foolish and silly.