Out On A Limb Limerick
Out On A Limb Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A show-off is out on a limb,
Having climbed a tall tree with great vim.
He is grim now and sore;
Ev’ry limb hurts full-bore.
Will he awe, thrill, or score? Hopes are dim.
(DiversePoets asks for tree poetry.)
Tags: Climbing Humor, Outdoors Humor, Show-Offs, Tree Climbing, Trees
ha yes climbing can have its ordeals… :-)
He is petrified (aka stuck).
To get this far was nothing but luck.
To jump off or climb down?
Oh, this show-off’s a clown,
He’s a jumper! Look out! What tha ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!!!!
oh i have fallen out of a few trees in my day
i bet he was sore…but sometimes that is what you get
for showing off…
My dad was a tree surgeon when he was a much younger man. He fell out of a tree, but luckily, into deep snow. I imagine his ego was bruised, along with his tailbone!
A show-off’s a bit of a punk
as he desperately clings to a trunk
from so precarious a height
he whines piteously from fright
muttering if only instead I’d spelunked
To loive and grow like a tree, how it would be!!
showing off is just like that…climbing high and waiting for the fall….
What brilliant rhyming! You really do raise the limerick to a new art form. :)
I’m a sucker for rhyme and this was like a vacuum, drawing me in. I love the mirth in your limericks. They are my “drug”.