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Re: Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
Well, NoStar, I guess when my parody gene's stuck in the ditch, all I have to do is read one of your limerical rewrites and it gets pushed back on the road. Stand by for a full-throttle HOTR parody! wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
This week's poem is hard for me to get a handle on. While poetry can distill, refine and give meaning to life and help us understand it, sometimes all a poem does (or needs to do) is reflect it. Adolescence is filled with as much misunderstanding as understanding. As a transitional phase, it is without clearly defined meaning. It is the search ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 21, 2009
Limerick for MaryAnn--Denny made me do it.
This limerick's about MaryAnn,Academic-type poetry fan.''I just read, but don't write them;It's fun to recite them.Don't ask me to change my game-plan.''
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 16, 2009
Re: Congratulations - Mary Ann
Hey, very cool, Denny and NoStar. I'd like to see that awarded limerick, if you don't mind tipping me off when it's presented. Congratulations from my end also, MaryAnn. I just looked up NoStar's limericks on the OEDILF...at least the ones deemed worthy of a general audience! Hmm... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Blog: The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
In belated formal kudos to NoStar for his Centurion status on the OEDILF (and to the OEDILF itself), I have composed this entry on my blog. I think that if you click on this link, you'll see some of his entries. I can. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Re: Sophie Cabot Black's "Biopsy" as a limerick
I haven't read ''Biopsy'' itself yet, but I agree: this is top-notch as a chain limerick, certainly the best I have ever seen you do. Perhaps ironically, it is driven not by your usual sense of parody, but of pathos -- even in your introduction to it. Kudos to you as well. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009
Sophie Cabot Black's "Biopsy" as a limerick
Kudos to Robert Pinsky for this week's selection.Sophie Cabot Black's descriptions of the examination room and the demeanor of the ''People dressed in the exact clothing of each other'' is dehumanizingly spot on. ''Biopsy'' triggered many different memories for me: Taking my daughter to have a sliced thumb superglued and not stitched, learning ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 14, 2009
One Poet Laureate...
Collins's ''The Symbol'' reads more like a prose fable than a poem.And why do the mirrors live unhappily ever after, besides that Collins tells us they do.One thing is for sure, a limerical treatment can't help but improve this stinker. There is a lot of potential symbolism here. Too bad Collins fumbled. Mirror breakage is said to cause seven ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 7, 2009
Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities
The perfect limerick is all anapestic. da da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DUM da da DUM So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of ''Maria'' and ''urea'' with ''dysuria''. Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 5, 2009
Shades of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"...
Hi guys, NoStar informed me of his Centurion status and his upcoming wedding in an e-mail last night. Congratulations all around! Of course, whenever one or both of you TAPs start congratulating each other on how peerless you are, I get cheerfully reminded, if not of a famous Dr. Seuss book, then of a famous Charlie Daniels song: When the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 4, 2009

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