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Not So Splendid Limerick

Sometimes I’m very disobedient when it comes to poetry prompts. For instance, Haiku Heights asks us to use the word splendor in … surprise, surprise … haiku. So what do I do? I use it in a limerick, instead.

Not So Splendid Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane

I wonder what constitutes splendor
And if views of it vary by gender.
Some see it in people
Or art or a steeple.
And others in green legal tender.

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10 Responses to “Not So Splendid Limerick”

  1. jesse levy says:
    February 3, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Love your limerick, Mad. I’ll try:

    When it comes to writing of splendor
    I can only be a pretender.
    …In The Grass – an okay movie
    But the Pekar one’s groovy
    But not The Prisoner of Zenda.

  2. madkane says:
    February 4, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks, Jesse!

  3. Hansi says:
    February 4, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    I’ll tell ya what lacks any splendor
    Tis when some drunk crashes your fender
    Some fool leaving a bar
    Thinkin’ he can still drive his car.
    After being totally impaired from a two week bender.

  4. madkane says:
    February 5, 2011 at 2:26 am

    Hansi, I must agree with you!

  5. Steve Nance says:
    February 5, 2011 at 3:55 am

    Just give me sugar
    For diabetes, no worse
    Than faux-sweet Splenda

    Oh, I’m sorry , did you say “splendor?”

  6. Steve Nance says:
    February 5, 2011 at 4:04 am

    Seriously, though, that is one damned fine limerick, Mad.

    Visualize “splendor”…
    Mountains? Lilies? Seasons? Meh.
    Buttocks! I like senryu…

  7. Steve Nance says:
    February 5, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    I can’t believe I posted a 5-7-6! haiku. Sigh. Okay, maybe amend that last bit to, “And senryu.”

  8. madkane says:
    February 5, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    Thanks, Steve! Whatever the count, I enjoyed your verse.

  9. vivienne Blake says:
    February 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    But it really is a splendid limerick. Great fun.
    ViV

  10. madkane says:
    February 7, 2011 at 2:54 pm

    Thanks so much, Vivienne!