A Conversation for Limericks
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
Vandervecken Started conversation Jun 12, 2001
I'd like to submit one of mine for your reading pleasure. I wrote it a few years back, and even got it published on the Web under the title "Rickelim" (not my idea) by one of those "We'll publish it, you might want to pay for a bound copy" schemes; not a great accolade, but Ho Hum...
Anyway, where was I? Ah yes:
A Limerick-writer perverse,
When asked how he wrote,
Said "I learned by rote,
But from upside-down books, what a curse!
Now my poetry scans in reverse!"
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
Sick Bob. (Most recent incarnation of the Dark Lord Cyclops. Still lord and master of the Anti Squirrel League and Keeper of c Posted Jun 13, 2001
Shouldn't it be called Kciremil then?
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
Vandervecken Posted Jun 13, 2001
I can see where you're coming from. But actually, thinking about it, if it were called "Kciremil", you might expect all the words to be written backwards too. I reckon "Rickelim" perfectly conveys the idea that the words are forwards but the structure is backwards.
Damn! Now you've made me like the title, and it's too late, I've already said that I didn't name it...
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 26, 2001
Or perhaps the words could be normal, but
the lines would be in reverse order, as in:
If they are, you just call the MD's."
And make sure they're not dead.
You just pop them in bed,
Who said, "Caring for kids is a breeze.
A nanny whose name was Louise
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
Vandervecken Posted Jun 26, 2001
Blimey, someone who's more surreal than I am! Congratulations... I think.
A Limerick rebellion to ponder
Sirona ( 1x7-4+(7x6)-(sqrt9) = 42 ) Posted Apr 22, 2002
i think it's better the first way. Because if you read it backwards first, it spoils the ending, but if you read it the right way the ending and the poem accentuate one another quite nicely.
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A Limerick rebellion to ponder
- 1: Vandervecken (Jun 12, 2001)
- 2: Sick Bob. (Most recent incarnation of the Dark Lord Cyclops. Still lord and master of the Anti Squirrel League and Keeper of c (Jun 13, 2001)
- 3: Vandervecken (Jun 13, 2001)
- 4: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jun 26, 2001)
- 5: Vandervecken (Jun 26, 2001)
- 6: Sirona ( 1x7-4+(7x6)-(sqrt9) = 42 ) (Apr 22, 2002)
- 7: Lingamish (Jul 15, 2003)
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