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  • Limerical reaction to Michael Ryan's "My Young Mother"

    I offer no rewrite of Michael Ryan's poem, just my personal limerical reaction to it. Pinsky's timing is uncanny with the Poem fray having just been alerted to the passing of Martin Greene's mother. Love's expressed not in just what we sayIt's in actions we do night and dayA firm hand, a soft touchLittle things reveal muchFor to love is to ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on January 15, 2008

  • Kevin Young's "Act Now & Save" rewritten as a limerick

    It is almost as if Kevin Young started to write a limerick and then chickened out. The meter on the opening line is perfect. I can't say I like the poem, but having lost one wife through death, (and another through divorce) I understand it all too well. It conveys what the writer means it to, so I can't offer any constructive criticism except ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on January 2, 2008

  • I'm doing something very rare here...

    Hi NoStar I don't put a thumbs-down very often, and I've never done it to you. Here I'm giving a verbal sort of neutral, horizontal hand-wave (meaning ''eh...''), not because the limerick form wouldn't work in bringing across the message of the poem, but because I don't think you hit the bull's-eye in using the form to best advantage for that ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 26, 2007

  • Rosanna Warren's "Aftermath" rewritten as a limerick

    ''Faster! Faster, Bambi! Don't look back! Keep running! Keep running!'' Bambi's mother BANG! double barrelled shotgun It was in that last summer euphoricWhen the chemo was making you feel sickYou looked out on your lawnAnd you saw doe and fawnAs the newborn was cleaned with a tongue lickThen the fawn raised its wobbly headAnd your eyes locked, ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on December 26, 2007

  • Re: ()() I cannot NOT parody this week's poem...

    You're welcome. I needed the break from routine, and this week's Pick provided it. But I was nearly too busy to try. I liked your limericks as much as I liked those of Foobs et al. Here is my response to Foobs. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 20, 2007

  • Re: The Augean Stables of Spoofing...

    An extinct dictionary* (Roget'sOld Thesaurus) provides one with waysOf self-aggrandizing(Or o'er-analyzingWhat comes by the passing of days). *Someone joked that a thesaurus (pulling on the analogy with many genera of dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus) is a dictionary of extinct words. At least I think I am not the first one to come up with that ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 20, 2007

  • ()() I cannot NOT parody this week's poem...

    First, a brief reply to all the limericks (and some few of the serious comments too): Yikes! This week's been all work and no play -So...our poet owes much to Roget?Well, I just read the Pick,And I nearly got sick -Oh, good grief! It's as bad as you say. And I might be able to squeeze in another parody, if I can find the real weak spot in the ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 19, 2007

  • I take the above back...

    The first time I read your limerick, I didn't connect with it very well. Now I connect with it better, after reading Artemesia's review. It is closer to the heart of the poem than I thought -- I suppose the limitation is that there's only so much one can do with one limerick on this poem. wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 11, 2007

  • Re: Beasley's "The World War Speaks" rewritten as a limerick

    NoStar: This unruly child's no prince of peaceAnd once I'm mature peace will cease What is strange I must say My folks raised me this way War is planned; it is not just caprice I take it all back, NoStar. You did hit the nail on the head.
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 11, 2007

  • Re: "The child to end all children..."

    Hi NoStar, The difficulty with putting it into a limerical form (let alone to the even higher form of ''Home on the Range'' ;) ) is finding its heart and hitting it dead-on. And I don't think either you or Denny did that. It's much easier to do so when the heart of the poem is absurd; then it sticks out, and in the memorable words of Christopher ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 11, 2007
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