A Limerick Bite (Limerick-Off Monday)

It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.

The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here’s last week’s Limerick Of The Week Winner plus the Honorable Mentions.)

How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, and cleverness. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, you can find some helpful resources listed here.)

I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse.

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:

A guy in the mood for a bite…

or

A gal in the mood for a bite…

Here’s mine:

A Limerick Bite
By Madeleine Begun Kane

A guy in the mood for a bite
Was upset — not one rest’rant in sight.
All he found was a deli
Whose odor was smelly.
Did he live through his meal there? Not quite.

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.

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49 Responses to “A Limerick Bite (Limerick-Off Monday)”

  1. Rinkly Rimes says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite,
    Felt he fancied some Turkish Delight.
    But the harem appalled him
    As all the girls mauled him,
    And the Sultan just laughed at his plight!
    *

  2. Thom says:

    A guy in a mood for a bite,,,
    Had dentures that were truly a sight.
    They had sparkle and glitter!
    When he chewed he was a spitter…
    Anorexia was truly his plight!

  3. kaykuala says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite…
    Met a guy who wants something light
    They got going
    For a light fling
    But it got right through a raucous night

  4. Pat Hatt says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Had searched all day and night
    Finally finding Louie
    For some ratatouille
    And it tasted just right

  5. Karin says:

    The Hungry Nurse Limerick

    A gal in a mood for a bite
    Can’t eat out coz the schedule is tight
    Stuck with new resident
    And two patients in vent
    She’s unsure if he’d care for them right

  6. hansi says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    Couldn’t find anyone to ease her plight
    So she bought a gun
    To have some fun
    And at a NRA convention, found Mr Right.

  7. Jesse Levy says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Felt something wasn’t quite right
    His lap band, you see
    squeezed his large tummy
    It had gotten too tight in the night.

  8. Linda Moss says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Though his breeches were already tight,
    At the drive thru he said
    “Super-size it instead”,
    Yet he wonders about all his plights.

  9. A vamp in the mood for a bite
    Wanted to ensure it was right
    Convention she flounted
    It was calories she counted
    When she supped in the mist of Twilite.

  10. Veralynne says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Stepped out, in a cape, for the night
    It was foggy and gray
    WOW! He LOVED it that way!
    Let’s see now…whose neck’s the right height?

  11. Veralynne says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    Was alone on a Saturday night
    So she called up her mom
    And Mom’s boyfriend, Tom.
    They hit ‘Tonio’s bar–just right!

    Very few singles on Saturday
    But enough for her liking, anyway.
    She danc’d the tarantella
    With a hot, handsome fella
    But the penne was only “eh,” okay.

    So Tom took her mom and went home.
    Her new beau, a poet, read a tome.
    By a quarter to one,
    They were havin’ some fun
    On the beach, the waves slapped ’em with foam.

  12. Mark Kane says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite,
    Found Eric, in Shreveport, one night.
    While losing her will,
    To just stay with Bill,
    She spied Pam and then quickly took flight.

  13. ‘Twas a guy in the mood for a bite.
    Blood was this vampire’s delight.
    He’d wait until dark.
    Then lurk in the park.
    Giving young women such fright!

  14. Lee Magilow says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    Told her waiter, “Suggest something light.”
    He felt if he answered her
    question “Lets discuss your
    restraint,” it wouldn’t be right.

  15. madkane says:

    Thanks so much everyone for your fun limericks, and please keep them coming!

  16. Ann says:

    a gal in the mood for a bite
    wasnt looking for fat free or lite
    she said super size it
    shake, fries, the whole gamut
    washed it down with a large diet sprite

  17. Bodhirose says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Swept his cape aside and went for the site
    But the girl in his clutches
    Was hobbling on crutches
    They both tripped and he gave up the fight

  18. A guy in a mood for a bite
    Ate a candle and half a flashlight
    “I’m on a new diet,
    I urge you to try it
    Now I’m lighter but not very bright.”

  19. A guy in the mood for a bite
    Asked a girl if she’d stay for the night.
    She said “I won’t quibble,
    Whether a bite or a nibble,
    But that’s all you be getting tonight.”

  20. A guy in the mood for a bite
    Was in for a terrible fright
    As he lunged for her throat
    She grabbed onto his scroat
    And squeezed ‘til the stars shone quite bright

  21. Elisa says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite,
    needed to take some respite,
    But Vampires don’t sleep
    nor do they pray
    especially when it’s so late at night.

  22. A gal in the mood for a bite
    Dined out on a Jewish Moms’ Night;
    When time came to retire,
    Chef approached to enquire,
    “Ladies, was ANYthing all right?!”

  23. Kathleen Cole says:

    Vampire Desire
    A gal in the mood for a bite
    issued a most cordial invite.
    But she failed to surmise
    her approaching demise,
    as she snacked ’til first light.

  24. haha – enjoyed all the different bite mood poems…now i’m getting hungry..smiles

  25. haha – enjoyed all the different bite mood poems…now i’m getting hungry..smiles

  26. scott says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite,
    was craving a box lunch tonight.
    Some breast and some thigh,
    topped off with hot pie.
    A true culinary delight.

  27. A guy in the mood for a bite
    Wears a cape and travels by night.
    There’s a cave where he hangs
    And polishes his fangs
    While dreaming of necks that excite.

  28. RJ Clarken says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    got stuck at a long traffic light.
    When the pangs he did feel
    he ate his steering wheel.
    Now he cannot turn left or turn right.

  29. RJ Clarken says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    gets a call for a dinner invite.
    Andrew Zimmern’s her date:
    bizarre food’s on the plate.
    Change of mood. She says, “Fasting tonight.”

  30. RJ Clarken says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    of an omelette made out of egg white
    said, “I’d rather French toast
    but then I couldn’t boast
    that I wear my jeans in a size ‘slight.’

  31. Patricia says:

    Once Bitten

    a gal in the mood for a bite
    came out of her coffin last night
    stood alone in the dark
    near the dog walking park
    flaming in the first morning light

  32. Mark Megson says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Found one during his flight
    The air hostess’s rear
    Was deliciously near
    He gave the poor girl quite a fright

  33. RJ Clarken says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    meets this girl and it’s love at first sight.
    Then a werewolf adores her
    but the vampire scores her.
    In a nutshell, the series ‘Twilight.’

  34. Mark Megson says:

    A slight tweak to my limerick –

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Found a tasty one during his flight
    The air hostess’s rear
    Was deliciously near
    He gave the poor girl quite a fright

  35. shammi says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Went out in a mood rather uptight.
    He took a gander
    At a man called Evander
    And took a chunk from his ear in a fight.

  36. scott says:

    A gal in a mood for a bite,
    but wanting to keep her mood light,
    put to test an old theorem,
    to skip negative serum.
    It’s B-positive for her tonight.

  37. brian says:

    a guy in the mood for a bite
    went out on the town for a night
    til by a vamp he was found
    left dry on the ground
    oh what a ghastly sight…

  38. Granny Smith says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    Did fear that her weight was not right
    So she ate tiny nibbles
    And drank tiny dribbles
    Was HUNGRY and woke in the night.

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  40. Granny Smith says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Desired to seem erudite.
    So he feasted on brains
    And imaged some drains
    Of stupidity, now put to flight.

  41. J Sardo says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Had a meal that was quite a delight
    When he looked at the check
    He said what the heck
    And complained to the cook out of spite.

    A gal in the mood for a bite
    Ate a meal for a queen late one night
    When the waiter said honey
    It’s time for the money
    She promised instead a night of delight.

  42. Anu says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    somehow got entangled in a food fight
    not a morsel did he eat
    not even a silver of meat
    though it lasted all through the night.

  43. John Richter says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite,
    flapped his wings and took off in flight.
    He seduced a young gal,
    sunk his teeth in her jowl,
    and was easily done before light.

  44. kez says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite
    Took a stroll on halloween night
    He sunk into a young gals neck
    she said blimey what the heck
    I think you and I could get on alright !

  45. Pari says:

    A guy in the mood for a bite,
    Was enrapt by a limerick website.
    Through his hunger, he bet,
    He’d just eat INTERNET!
    ‘Cause for each eight bits he’d get a byte!

  46. Pari says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite,
    Thought she’d thaw something out for that night.
    When she opened the freezer,
    The sight didn’t please her,
    In fact she lost all appetite.

    When the stench from the box hit the air,
    She thought she saw something like hair!
    A whole body dismembered, but then she remembered,
    She’d bought Dahmer’s old Frigidaire!

  47. madkane says:

    Thanks again for all your delightful limericks! This Limerick-Off is officially over and you can find out who won here: Limerick of the Week 30.

    But there’s a brand new limerick writing challenge already awaiting you: A Case Of Limericks.

  48. Johanna Richmond says:

    A gal in the mood for a bite,
    Something weeny, well-relished, just right,
    Met the hotdog cart man
    In the back of his van
    Where they reveled in foot long delight.