Healthy Complaint
Healthy Complaint (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dark choc’late, caffeine, and red wine
Might harm us, or may be just fine.
Ev’ry news item muddies
My mind with new studies.
Please make up your mind: What’s benign?
(Prompted by We Write Poems, which encouraged poets to use two prompts at once. I used health and chocolate.)
You might also enjoy my Are Health Studies Making Us Sick? and Margarine Is Good For You. Oops — Never Mind!
Tags: Caffeine Humor, Chocolate Poem, Diet Humor, Food Verse, Health & Medical Humor, Health Studies, Wine Humor
Well said. that reminds me of some lyrics to a blues song:
If ya dig, don’t do it
If ya like, better leave it alone.
oh they are good, just too good…smiles…and dont help my waistline…
I hate how the news changes daily. I decided to stop listening :)
Ha! I agree, so confusing! Oh well, I’m guilty of consuming all three!
I love them all :)
Ha! so true…I’m going with fine
Oh this is soooo true
They can’t make up their mind what they do
May as well say screw it and do what you want
As we’re going to die anyway so why listen to them taunt
Everything in moderation me thinks!
The red wine’s good. So’s the chocolate. What are of no use whatsoever are those silly studies.
It’s always something, isn’t it Mad? :-)
hahaha.. well said, Madeleine! And so true!! Which is why I simply indulge in whatever it is that tempts me :)
Chocolate is something I crave
despite the high calorie wave
healthy or not
I eat it a lot
my waistline just will not behave
So very good, Madeleine. :) And true about the variances but then what is true when the experts cannot agree?
To dark chocolate I’m addicted
Red wine nightly I’m afflicted
Half decaf for me
Behalf my kidney
Be what be it’s all conflicted
I like your limericks and I like trying them. The meter bothers me some but I try to get the majority right.
Your ‘COURT’ accrostic limerick is great. I should enter one. I missed making Acrostics Only entries last month.
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BTW, I’m a retired attorney also. I keep current because at my age the bar dues are waived. My employment was teaching Business Law in a community college.
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Forgot to say thank you for peeking in on my tribute to a fallen friend. And thank you for your nice comment.
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Thanks so much everyone for your enthusiastic words and your verse!
LOL How true Mad… love this !!
Madeleine, you’ve said so well what I’ve often thought. I also love your title. Thanks.
Richard
Absolutely! I vent my exasperation with the whole thing to my husband in dinner conversation at every conflicting report. How clever of you to highlight in your limerick. Great!
Very well said! I hate how they’re always switching if coffee, chocolate, etc. are good or bad for you.
Mad Kane, enjoying all of your limericks today! This one is particular, is my favorite. I so love dark chocolate, and have decided that it MUST be a health food! :)
Thanks so much everyone for your lovely comments!