Operatic Acrostic Limerick
Operatic Acrostic Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Oh that tenor who’s playing the king
Pierces eardrums while trying to sing.
Easy notes he should reach
Really readily screech,
As we grab some bananas to fling.
(Prompted by Acrostic Only)
If you’d like to read the opera-related humor column that won me the 2008 Robert Benchley Society Award For Humor, here’s my Guide For The Opera Impaired.
Tags: Acrostic Poems, Music Humor & Verse, Opera Humor, Singing Humor, Vocalists
this is hilarious! Next time there is a screecher I am bringin’ bananas!
LOL. No tomatoes?
It would be more challenging than the ones I’ve tried. One is a little restricted but that is where the challenge is. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my I must remember banans for the next time at teh opera!
Blessings
Ha Ha – What a fun take on the prompt.
bananas to throw…now why didnt i think of that…lol…fun stuff
Isn’t it awful when they do really struggle like that though. Smiling.
haha bananas could be thrown like a boomerang
Well done! So, after the intermezzo, what’s the 2nd act limerick? ☼
Otello, by Signor Rossini,
provokes ol’ Iago (a meanie.)
Even poor Desdemona
recitives her persona
and Emilia just sips her martini.
So good!
:D
hitching a ride in rusted trails
Love it…nothing like bad opera :)
hahaha this was awesome…!!
just loved it..!!
Oh, here’s to the great coloratura
performing with total bravura:
Elektra by Strauss
right inside the jail house…
and a captive audience, for sura.
hihi – was thinking of a tenor saxophone first…in germany we would throw tomatoes…but bananas are a cool idea..smiles
That’s hilarious!
Thanks so much everyone for your fun comments and kind words. And thanks RJ for your clever acrostic limericks!
You have a fun limerick here in great acrostic style!! You are so perfect in both forms!!