Fancy writing a group limerick ?

They made so much noise

And now one of them is dead.

But the corpse was rapidly revived

And both our characters have now survived

(Neither of these scan......)

(AO, How about kicking off with...) But the corpse sat up and suddenly revived

(OK. Improved.)

But the corpse sat up and suddenly revived
And both our characters have now survived
Our tale has got longer

(Still doesn't quite scan right!)

Both men have got stronger

And their unlikely escape contrived!

They leapt on a pair of scrawny old nags

Who were puffing and sucking on a packet of fags.

(This is absolutely terrible! Hope the next thread's going to be better...)

Who snickered and mumbled

And staggered and stumbled

And coughed like a couple of toe-rags.

(Like Ana, can I appeal to anyone who thinks they are posting lines for a limerick to read them out loud first. It should sound like this:-

There was a young la dy from Eal ing
Who walked upside down on the ceil ing
She fell on her neck
And mur mured "By heck
What a ve ry pe cul iar feel ing"

with the emphasis on the blacker syllables

If you wanna write a limerick, write a limerick
If you wanna write any other style of poem, start you own thread! )

Exactly!

It can have extra unstressed (unemphasised) syllables next to the single unstressed ones, but a limerick does have a shape of its own. That is what it is.

Otherwise it's just doggerel.

(come on GNrs. This is really getting out of any reasonable limerick style. Some discipline is needed here! Pull yourselves together and lay off the gin.)

(Why does it say "view 1000 messages" at the top, when there are only 946 posts?)

Now 947 including this one.

No, it will be 949 with this one.

950

At one line for each poster that makes 5 lines for each limerick and after I post this it will be 49 left. So we could get 9 more limericks and four comments. I think!