Poetry is the P in N-P-K

content, dear one---in these gems I leave you the promise of sun to come again..."

 

I accepted that Winter was fast approaching now however, and I reluctantly...

 

... as it may that your heart desires fruits of endless Summer, there is a time for Stillness, and Sleep, and Death." I...

 

know all too well the perils of youth, in my reminiscences of days gone by...

 

... I glutted on Life and paid a heavy price. So

 

now the startling reality of my wasted years, brings me to a place...

 

of rest--as must the flowers, as must the leaves. A cyclic structure of ...

 

death and rebirth, ever~changing, like the seasons of my life.

 

And so I wait. My banana seed sleeps dormant in my...

 

little pot, and with hopeful anticipation, I imagine

 

that my wasted years were not wasted, but enriched the soil of my soul, making me understand that now

 

I am better than I was ~ always moving forward...

 

and so Fall is come, and Winter to follow, but Spring will return; the banana seed that

 

that I sowed with love, will bring the promise of Spring and new hope...

 

A "limick"
Spotting "Community Shuffle" on the UCB website, I thought,
"Wonderful! All zombies welcome!"
I saw it was shuttle,
But in swift rebuttal,
I prefer "Community Shuffle!"

 

oooou, limericks! let's see if I can do one...


In a sforzando rage at the Jones
I grew some bamboo last year.
Delight now shoots through my bones
with bamboo growing out of my ears!

 

ok, don't know if that made any sense to anyone but me!!! I will need some practice with this. ;0

 

It is poetry, but it is not a limerick.

 

I grew some bamboo last year.
which in Vancouver costs very dear.
It enraged the Jones,
which delighted my ol' bones
And now I have bamboo growing out of my ears

 

Hello Togata57,

Yes, you're right. It ain't a limerick. So I looked it up and fixed it. :)

 

So, where do we go from here?


: )

 

Thanks to Ann B's limerick, I'd like to start a collaborative limerick.

Ok, since I just learnt the rules of limercks myself, let me lay them down:

1. only 5 llines
2. last word of lines 1,2 and 5 must rhyme
3. last work of lines 3 and 5 must rhyme

Line 1: Start by introducing character/story, etc
Line 2:Then elaborate
Line 3 and 4: Pose a problem/challenge/dilemma/conflic
Line 5: resolve it (usually it's funny and/or witty and/or sillly)

 

Better! Limericks traditionally begin with a reference to a person/place, e.g.: 'There once was a plumber from Pittsburgh...' However, it would be contradictory to the spirit of a limerick to disallow some flexibility, eh?
I am quite fond of the double-dactyl, as well.

 

Allright fellow garderners, here's the first attempt at our collaborative limerick:

There was once a frog in my pond,

 

With princess did yearn to abscond.