Limericks

By Spencer Ramsey

         Limericks are short and sweet poems that are very popular around the world.  They get their name from a town in Ireland called Limerick, where they were used in Irish Pub songs.  However, limericks have been around for 100’s of years. 

         Edward Lear wrote a book called “The Book of Nonsense” which contained seventy-two limericks.  Sometimes limericks are a little inappropriate for children, but overall they are pretty nice things to learn about, and can be quite funny. 

         Let me read to you a few limericks by Edward Lear:

 

There once was an old man in a tree

Who was horribly bored by a bee

When they said ‘Does it buzz?’

He replied ‘Yes, it does!’

‘It’s a regular brute of a bee.’

 

There was an old man with a beard

Who said ‘It is just as I feared.’

Two owls and a hen

Four larks and a wren

Have all built their nests in my beard

 

These are some limericks I wrote about people I know: 

 

There once was a young boy named Ethan

Whose friends had called him Wheat Thin

He woke up in the night

To find with a fright

That his friends had just started eatin’

 

There once was a girl named Audrey

Whose little brother kept calling her tawdry

She went out for some beads

She found out they were bees

And went screaming all the way to the laundry

 

There once was a girl named Malena    

People kept calling her pain-a

She got really mad

And made everyone sad

And now everyone’s afraid of Malena

 

There was a young lad named Caden

Who people kept trying restrainen’

His mom grabbed his head

Told him ‘It’s time for bed!’

And that’s all we heard about Caden

 

There was a old gnome named Yoda

And people kept giving him soda

He let out a burp

Ate noodles with a slurp

And fainted, that overfed, Yoda