Limerick-Off Monday – Rhyme Word: CHOW or CIAO at the end of Line 1 or 2 or 5

It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick as a comment to this post and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick using either CHOW or CIAO at the end of Line 1 or Line 2 or Line 5. (Homonyms or homophones are fine.)

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

How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)

I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner next Sunday, right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)

Here’s my limerick:

A woman said “Ciao!” to her chow
When she heard it emit a meow.
She was vexed and upset;
Though her vet swore her pet,
Was a canine, that gal had a cow.

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same rhyme word 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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57 Responses to “Limerick-Off Monday – Rhyme Word: CHOW or CIAO at the end of Line 1 or 2 or 5”

  1. Suzanne Heymann says:

    A farmer, done eatin’ his chow
    Hooked Elsie the cow to the plow
    His poor eyesight proved
    Why the ole’ gal ain’t moved
    It’s because he had hooked up the sow!

  2. Suzanne Heymann says:

    My parents would never allow
    Me to try out a bit of dog chow
    But when no one was ’round
    I ate like a hound
    I was young then and dumb as a cow.

    (and that’s what it tasted like, wow!)

  3. Suzanne Heymann says:

    Is “goodbye” in Italy, “ciao”?
    It’s not! It’s “hello.” Really? How?!
    I know it’s absurd
    But I googled the word
    I NEVER knew but I know NOW.

    Oh the controversy of this “ciao”
    Have I lost a few brain cells somehow?
    It’s somewhat amusing
    But very confusing
    Won’t ever use THAT word, I vow!

  4. Suzanne Heymann says:

    My doggy sure loves his dog chow
    He barks for his food, says, “Bow wow!”
    But lately he eats
    All the kitty cat treats
    Now all he can say is “Meow!”

  5. Suzanne Heymann says:

    I’m really a muddlehead. How?
    I just found out you can use “ciao”
    For meeting or parting
    (My brain is still farting)
    So go ahead, just shoot me now!

  6. Suzanne Heymann says:

    Vow not to bow or kowtow
    To the sow or the cow or the chow
    Don’t show them how
    To find freedom now
    You’d allow them to plow with a pow.

    (Ow! You’re a lowbrow, just wow!)

  7. Ian Graham says:

    In the midst of a meeting with Mao,
    The Central Committee said “Ciao.
    We’re all off to munch
    A hot dog for lunch.
    We’re told there’s Great Chow in Macao.”

  8. Suzanne Heymann says:

    Steak and potatoes is how
    Some bad guys prefer as their chow
    But I know a mobster
    Who only eats lobster
    Although he is in the hoosegow.

  9. Judith H. Block says:

    You need help, but I just don’t know how.
    Much that you do, I disavow.
    Too much pain from the past
    I know this won’t last
    So right now I’m telling you, “Ciao!”

  10. Judith H. Block says:

    Au revoir, adios, shalom, ciao,
    Squeak, hiss, woof, arf, chirp. and meow,
    When we say good-bye,
    Sometimes laugh, sometimes cry,
    And sometimes we just don’t know how.

  11. Judith H. Block says:

    There was a broad God did endow
    With looks that made guys just go, WOW!
    But inside she was crass
    She let guys make a pass
    She’d use them, then make a fast ciao.

  12. Judith H. Block says:

    We feasted on some Chinese chow,
    It tasted real good, but not, “wow”
    It wasn’t too pricey
    But it was too spicy
    My tummy don’t like it, no how!

  13. Judith H. Block says:

    When hello or good-bye, we say, “Ciao!”
    But mess up in between, here and now.
    We can’t interact
    Live illusions abstract.
    A mermaid is just a sea cow.

  14. Wanda Psycho says:

    Tiring greatly of waiting for chow
    Though he feared a foot to the brow
    The elder of two brothers
    Gave a boost to the other
    To reach the cookies they were craving right now

    (P.S. I love your limerick! There seems to be great confusion as to the identity of the lady’s beast!)

  15. Johanna Richmond says:

    Middle Aged Mom Makes a Run For it. . .

    When I’m frisky and looking for “wow,”
    Done with “Mom” (Call me “Mama Meow”),
    And a whisker past sane,
    You may hear this refrain
    As I dance out the door, “Chow, chow, CIAO!”

  16. David Reddekopp says:

    I’m going to make this my vow:
    To party for Lent – oh, and how!
    For the fast goes by fast
    When you’re having a blast
    And so now I say “ciao” to my chow.

  17. David Reddekopp says:

    He expected his woman to bow
    To sex him and serve him some chow
    He said “She is shit
    She will not submit
    I can’t get that cow to kowtow.”

  18. Konrad Schwoerke says:

    A farmer who loved his wife’s chow
    Was repulsed ’cause she ate like a sow.
    So he always rejects
    All her offers of sex
    With: “I’ve got me a furrow to plow.”

  19. Diane Groothuis says:

    Lothario warbled a “ciao”
    And giving a very low bow
    Said “signora your hair
    Is so wondrously fair…”
    She replied “not signora but frau”

  20. Cynthia Kennedy says:

    Cassie was a good ole cow.
    She shared her milk with a cat and a sow.
    But when the sow had its grub,
    To Cassie it would snub,
    You will not get any of my chow.

  21. Cynthia Kennedy says:

    In the kisser, the butcher went pow!
    To the man who stole his chow.
    He said, “Get out of my store,”
    “And don’t come back anymore,”
    Unless you want to end up like Mr. Miller’s sow.

  22. Dave Johnson says:

    They served us what they would call “chow”
    At a mess hall – that’s fitting somehow.
    The stuff that we ate
    Wasn’t meant for a plate;
    Purina does market it now.

  23. Dave Johnson says:

    Mad – in line 4 above please change “fit” to “meant”

    That’s what I meant…

    From Mad Kane: Done.

  24. At last my husband said “Caio”
    Certain things I just would not allow
    I need a check-up
    Since I always develop
    A headache that suggests, “Not now”

  25. Konrad Schwoerke says:

    We were told, on our cruise to Macao,
    That some Asians eat dog even now.
    And it’s true, ’cause one day
    At a local café
    Our host asked, “May we bring you some chow?”

  26. Phil Graham says:

    After eating five plates of Kung Pao
    Constipation attacked Chairman Mao
    When to john he would strut
    Only farts would he cut —
    The Chinese term for it’s ‘hung chow.’

  27. Tom Harris says:

    Fat, grouchy Jim inhaled his chow.
    Eating a pig, a horse and cow.
    As sloppy as sin,
    He shoveled it in
    And wiped his mug with a beach towel.

  28. My first dates always end with “Ciao”
    And I always take time to allow
    My hair to look nice
    I shower twice
    Perhaps it’s ’cause I’m built like a cow

  29. Tom Harris says:

    The guy called his girlfriend a cow,
    Then said, “Forgive me,” with a bow,
    “Oh, son of a gun,
    “I have a mean tongue.”
    “True,” said she, “Now let me say ‘ciao!’”

  30. Fred Bortz says:

    At the farm where Santorum lives now,
    He rants about how man-on-cow
    Is unsanitary–
    A queer scary dairy–
    Which the Democrats deign to allow.

    Does he think that he’s fooling the voters
    To elect him to be our next POTUS
    Midst the Iowa corn?
    Take the bull by the horn:
    We’ve exceeded our idiot quotas.

  31. Dave Johnson says:

    With hipster beards popular now,
    Some fellows have figured out how
    To grow ’em real thick
    Like a hair-covered brick;
    It’s handy for storing some chow.

  32. Pat Benedict Campbell says:

    The Medicine Man came in and bowed
    ‘for your baldness, use some of this now’
    but he used every drop
    on his bald shiny top
    next day he turned into a Chow!

  33. David Reddekopp says:

    If I ever write a book of these, this will be my farewell verse:

    In case you don’t know it by now
    I’m leaving, but I don’t know how
    To say it. I’ll try
    I’m no good at goodbye
    So in lieu of “adieu”, I’ll say “Ciao!”

  34. We feed our dachshund his chow
    Doggie sounds imply “WOW!’

    But it’s not enough
    He still wants OUR stuff

    He raises quite a row!

  35. Suzanne Heymann says:

    While making her first wedding vow
    The wife planned their life and here’s how:
    “I can clean, pay the bills
    I have great bedroom skills
    Just don’t ask me to cook any chow.”

  36. Pat Benedict Campbell says:

    There once was a person from Skow
    who had fur growing out of his brow
    it seems long ago
    on the Isle of Moreau
    His grandfather had been a Chow

  37. Tim James says:

    For a call girl she likes simple chow
    But she charges a grand to drop trou
    For a night’s worth of vice.
    Here’s her totaled-up price:
    Jug of wine, loaf of bread, and a thou.

  38. Phil Graham says:

    Three months ago I did allow
    An Italian to bed me, and how!
    She now has lumbago,
    When she remarked, “Prego”
    I jumped in my car and yelled, “Ciao!”

  39. In the province of Shang Chow
    They eat DOGS instead of cow!
    On my whirlwind trip
    I tried to be hip
    Now I can’t help uttering “Bow Wow”

  40. I was more than just ready for chow–
    would’a ate the butt off a bow-wow;
    but the thin turnip soup I got,
    that wasn’t even hot,
    made me crave change right now.

  41. Bjorn says:

    a farmer once behind his plow
    said “what should i later sow,
    wheat or maybe rye
    to make a better pie
    cause I am hungry for some chow”

  42. Phil Graham says:

    Most guard dogs in China allow
    You to buy a sword known as a dao
    But unlike a sharpei,
    It’s a case of Carpe
    Diem when you hear growls from a chow.

  43. Blessed days of bountiful chow..
    years pass farm animals and plow..
    Oh.. how love circles smiles flower
    when tummies are full Love now blows
    tunes more songs of human found smarts..;)

  44. Mama Agata made the world’s best chow
    With mouth’s full the family said “WOW”

    They’re here at the cemetery
    In the section called “Veterinary”

    Dear Mumsy gave them all Mad Cow

  45. Sanaa Rizvi says:

    I refuse to kneel, refuse to bow;
    Trust not your every plea and vow.
    Questions raised on slender brows;
    Guess I ll head off and whisper
    Ciao.

  46. Gayle Walters Rose says:

    I’ve never, ever used the word ciao.
    Because I’ve never, ever really learned how.
    I’m American you see,
    Not an Italian overseas,
    So I’ll just say goodbye here and now!

    Ha…it’s been a while since I wrote a limerick, Madeleine. Yours was great and I enjoy seeing what people come up with.

    Gayle ~

  47. Suzanne Heymann says:

    My restaurant has the best chow
    (And modesty’s lost me somehow)
    Low prices, big platters
    But what really matters:
    Ingredients picked fresher than now.

  48. Suzanne Heymann says:

    Pregnant and barefoot is how
    Some brides in the kitchen cook chow
    A dominant man
    Just ain’t part of the plan
    And not something that you should allow.

    Before I make my wedding vow
    There’s something you need to know now
    If we aren’t equal
    Bad vibes are a sequel
    I’ve got just one word for you – CIAO!

  49. We always give “Chewie” her evening chow
    As much as her vet prescribes to allow
    But then she cries
    Because she tries
    To eat my ear and nose and brow

  50. Pope Francis went to have chow
    with a colleague, then once he said “ciao!”
    Kim Davis gave props,
    claims he told her “Don’t stop!”
    and the Vatican could only say, “Wow…”

  51. The Pope took a break to eat some chow
    When he offered me some, I took a bow
    He said with much poise
    “It would be one of my joys;
    My friend, I am not holier than thou”

  52. Steve Benko says:

    In Rome you need only say “Ciao”
    Where in China the thing’s to kow tow
    But here in my teepee
    I’ll get awfully weepie
    Unless we sit down and pow wow

  53. Tim James says:

    A sailor, ashore for some chow,
    Met a lady who asked him just how
    Swabbies “do it.” He laughed,
    Turned her round, faced her aft,
    And rammed into her stern with his prow.

  54. Allen Wilcox says:

    A serious critic of chow
    Acquired a most miniature plow.
    He thought readers would learn
    More if he seemed stern,
    So he used it to furrow his brow.

  55. Suzanne Heymann says:

    My first verse of limericks with “CHOW”
    Is flawed, I just noticed it now
    The last line you’ll see
    That the “ha” should be “he”
    Could you change it MadKane please, somehow?

    (Thanks)
    (hahaha hehehe!)

    From Mad Kane: Done. :)

  56. Janie Gouge says:

    Auf wiedersehen, adiós, ciao
    Au revoir, hwyl fawr, tot gauw
    Nägemist, aloha
    Do skoro, sayōnara
    I’ll just say goodbye for now

  57. madkane says:

    Thanks so much everyone for another fun week of limericks. And the winner is…

    Congratulations to the Limerick of the Week Winner and the Honorable Mention Winners: Limerick of the Week 233.

    But you can still have lots of limerick fun because a new Limerick-Off has just begun: Limerick-Off Spill.

    (Posted Early. Limerick of the Week “Endnote” explains why. Any further limerick submitted within deadline will be considered for an HM.)