Brad - 5/3/09

Oh my god!  Is this the start of another poetry challenge like Graeme's Haiku cage match.  Dare we hope?

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Graeme - 5/3/09

Fingers on nose, squeeze, take a big breath, and jump......

A man named Dave from the 'Cheese'
Thought he could rhyme as he please
But when he talked of Chopin
The rest of us went mo'pin
Always tryin' to tease

PS I am not likely to make it tomorrow - a late work dinner.
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Brad - 5/4/09

Dave began innocently:

a woman named Iris from Paris
was haughty and cool as an aris
but when she read Nietzsche
her voice went all scrietzsche
and shouted things sure to embaris.

Graeme responded rudely:

A man named Dave from the 'Cheese'
Thought he could rhyme as he please
But when he talked of Chopin
The rest of us went mo'pin
Always tryin' to tease

Brad defends sharply!

There was an old doctor named Graeme
Who had more than one wise old say'n
So many in fact
The others made a pact
And for relief his six mates are now a pray'n.
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Dave P - 5/4/09

Dave weighs in -

our happy RACONTEUR named Graeme,
his friends with his jokes he would Slaeme
one friend was ill-starred
and laughed much too harred
and now in the ground we must laeme.
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Angus - 5/4/09

Gus has no idea what's going on but wants to play too ...

There were 7 men from the hood
Who on Mondays got up to no good
They'd talk and they'd fight
They'd argue all night
But couldn't see the trees for the wood

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Ted 5/5/09

And then Ted replied:

Two Davids a Graeme, Brad and Angus,
All limericking while wildly a drinking
Too bad the malted thinking
Couldn't help these lymerics from a ........

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Dave p - 5/26/09

my Goethe limerick..

there once was a poet named Goethe
who said 'if you wanna be shoethe
sleep well and sleep tight
read Faust every night
(and it helps if your bed is a Soethe.)