Friday, February 4, 2005

Limerick Practice Comments

Rating: 4.0

In the jungle the lion is king.
To placate him the birds all do sing.
But watch out for the leopard
and his guardian, the shepherd.
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Herbert Nehrlich
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Lingru 09 August 2020

Hi! I still don’t understand how do you make a limerick poem. It’s very confusing as a kid to understand this stuff.

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Pradeep Dhavakumar 04 February 2005

That was funny.thank you.

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Herbert Nehrlich1 04 February 2005

This was written as all the little limericks were in response to Michael Shepherds Limerick tonight. All within minutes before he escaped... H

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Daniel Ramirez 04 February 2005

Hey! Two more thoughts. Who's practicing the limerick? You or the protaganist's in the poem (whoever they may be) , and when was this written; I see it has a number that goes back? Oh, by the way, I noticed you share youinger sisters birthday. Very neat. A little Karma maybe?

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Daniel Ramirez 04 February 2005

Nice rhythm and meter. Also a bit dark in a very humorous way. Or is that just my sneaky little head. Should I get the coffee? I especially like the brevity. It takes some talent to be brief yet pungent. Nice poem Herbert.

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Robert Rorabeck 04 February 2005

liked this one very much

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