Archive for the ‘Celebrations Poetry’ Category
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
I was astonished to learned that today is “National Mark Day.” Apparently, it’s celebrated each year on October 18th. Who knew?
It’s “National Mark Day,” they say.
Is it marked on your calendar? Nay?
Since my Mark’s a great gent,
It’s a daily event
In our home. Only ONE day? No way!
Tags: Husband Humor, Husband Limerick, Mark Day, Marriage Humor, Marriage Limerick, National Mark Day, October Holidays, Odd Holidays
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Marriage Humor, Odd Holidays | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
Though it’s Anisette Day, I don’t care.
I can’t bear any bev’rage or fare
With a licorice taste.
I would rather chew paste!
Me touch tarragon? Not on a dare!
(For some unfathomable reason, “National Anisette Day” is celebrated on July 2.)
Tags: Anisette, Anisette Day, Beverage Humor, Drink Humor, Drink Limerick, Food Humor, Food Limerick, Herb Humor, Herbs, July Holidays, Licorice Humor, Odd Holidays, Spice Humor, Spice Limerick, Spices, Spices Humor, Tarragon
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Celebrate Anisette Day? Don’t Make Me! (Limerick)
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023
This headline reminded me that today (June 21) is International Day Of Yoga: “International Yoga Day: PM Modi leads celebrations at UN Headquarters in New York”.
So it’s time for yet another yoga-related limerick:
I used to do yoga most days.
It was more than a health-conscious phase.
But I did it MY way;
Certain moves were a NAY
To avoid setting bad wrists ablaze.
Tags: Exercise Humor, Health Limericks, International Day of Yoga, International Yoga Day, June Holidays, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, PM Modi, Relaxation Humor, Sports Limerick, Stress Humor, United Nations, World Yoga Day, Yoga Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Exercise Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy Yoga Day! (Limerick)
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
If you live in a part of our nation
That creates DST irritation
Via forward or back
Clock adjustments, alack!
Spring ahead for some sleep deprivation!
Tags: Clock Humor, Daylight Saving Time, Daylight Savings Time, DST Humor, DST Limerick, Insomnia Humor, Insomnia Limerick, March Holidays, Sleep Humor, Sleep Limerick, SpringForward, SpringForwardDay, Time Humor, Time Verse
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Seasons Humor, Sleep & Insomnia Humor, Time Humor | Comments Off on Limerick Ode To DST
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
Someone dared me to write a latke limerick. (No need to check your calendars. Hanukkah’s still in December.)
A latke debate has emerged:
“Eat latkes with sugar,” Mark urged.
“Using sugar sounds weird,”
Sev’ral said. Others cheered.
As for me, latkes ought to be purged.
Tags: Chanukah, December Holidays, Festival Of Lights, Food Humor, Food Limerick, Food Poem, Hanukkah, Holiday Limerick, Jewish Humor, Latke Humor, Latke Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Humor, Religion Verse, Seasons Humor | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
It’s your birthday, dear brother, so try
To have fun. (Maybe even get high.)
And I also must say
On this wonderful day:
How dare you be younger than I!
Tags: Arthur Begun, Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Humor, Birthday Limerick
Posted in Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Personal | Comments Off on Birthday Limerick For My Dear Brother, Arthur
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
For some inexplicable reason today (March 31) is National Prom Day.
It’s “National Prom Day” today.
Why in March, of all months? Who’s to say?
I’ve heard proms can be fun.
(Not that I’ve been to one.)
But I’m happy to cheer ’em. Hooray!
Tags: Dance Humor, Dance Limerick, March Holidays, National Prom Day, Odd Holidays, Party Humor, Party Limerick, Prom Day, Prom Humor, Prom Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Dance Humor, Dating Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on The Promise of Proms
Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
Today you may celebrate pie;
It’s “National Pie Day.” That’s why.
But pies never tempt me,
So kindly exempt me.
Choc’late layer cake? THAT I would buy.
National Pie Day is celebrated on January 23.
Tags: Celebrations Poetry, Food Humor, Food Limericks, January Holidays, National Pie Day, Odd Holidays, Pie Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on Happy “Pie Day!” (Limerick)
Friday, September 24th, 2021
Punctuation Day
questionable holiday
arrives without bang
Happy National Punctuation Day!
(I decided to provide that bang, after all.)
Tags: Bangs, Exclamation Marks, Grammar Haiku, Grammar Humor, Holiday Haiku, Language Satire, National Punctuation Day, Odd Holidays, Punctuation Haiku, Punctuation Humor, September Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Haiku & Senryu, Holiday Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | Comments Off on Happy National Punctuation Day — September 24 (Haiku)
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
We chipped in; threw a party for Jill.
Her friend Carl held our cash in a till.
Had to twist the man’s arms
And call the gendarmes
To get him to foot the damn bill.
Tags: Celebration Limerick, Idiom Humor, Idiom Limerick, Language Humor, Language Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Party Humor, Party Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor | Comments Off on Party Snafu (Limerick)
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
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(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
I hope you’ll join me in writing limericks using MAIN or MANE or MAINE or DOMAIN at the end of any one line. (Homonyms or homophones are fine.)
The best submission will be crowned Limerick-Off Award Winner. (Here’s last week’s Limerick-Off Award Winner.)
Additionally, you may write themed limericks related to BILLS, using any rhyme word. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best BILLS-related limerick.
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 winners on February 14, 2021, right before I post the next Limerick-Off. So that gives you two full weeks to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my MAIN/MANE/MAINE/DOMAIN-rhyme limerick:
A wicked young woman from Maine
Had a mane that was dyed “pink champagne.”
Her name was Rosé
“No not ‘Rose,'” she would say
With disdain, being prickly and vain.
And here’s my BILLS-themed limerick:
The hall had a lovely array
Of flowers on fragrant display.
But the bride wasn’t pleased,
“I’m allergic,” she wheezed.
“If I’m dead, don’t expect me to pay.”
Please feel free to enter my Limerick-Off by posting your limerick(s) 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.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Allergy Humor, Allergy Limerick, Bills, Bills Humor, Competition Limerick, Flowers, Hair Humor, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Marriage Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Vanity Humor, Wedding Humor, Writing Prompts
Posted in Allergy Humor, Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Contests, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest | 148 Comments »
Monday, December 31st, 2018
Audio Player
New Year’s Toast:
The new year is coming up fast,
As I think of the world’s recent past.
It feels like the brink,
So to hope I shall drink:
Next year’s GOT to be better than last.
*****
Resolution Disclaimer:
Resolutions ain’t sticky, I fear,
Be it sugar, tobacco or beer.
If you’ve broken that pledge,
Please don’t be on edge.
No worries! There’s always NEXT year.
*****
Drunken Limerick:
Can I write silly verse after drinking?
Let’s see. Wait a second — I’m thinking.
Can’t come up with a verse
Or a rhyme. Even worse,
I suspect that this limerick’s stinking.
Tags: Alcoholic Poems, Celebrations Poetry, champagne, December Holidays, Drink Verse, Drinking Limerick, Holiday Limericks, Holiday Poetry, January Holidays, New Year's Eve, New Year's Humor, New Year's Limerick, New Year's Poem, New Year's Resolutions Humor, New Year's Resolutions Verse, Writing Limericks
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Writing & Publishing Humor | Comments Off on New Year’s Eve Limerick Trio
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Help! It’s Sean Connery Day!
Sean Connery’s speech drives me mad
Cuz his diction is fiendishly bad.
Yet he’s worshipped, adored;
Fervid film buffs, un-Moored,
Won’t shush up their Sean-mimicry fad.
Tags: Actor Humor, August Holidays, Celebrity Humor, Diction Humor, Impersonation Humor, Lisp, Mimicry Humor, Odd Holidays, Sean Connery, Sean Connery Day, Speech Humor
Posted in Actors & Actresses, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Help! It’s Sean Connery Day! (Limerick)
Thursday, March 17th, 2016
On St. Patrick’s Day food I’m not keen.
Its corned beef and cabbage cuisine
Makes my stomach feel queer,
And the same goes for beer.
Partake… and I’ll surely turn green.
Tags: Beer, Cabbage, Celebrations Poetry, Food Poem, Holiday Humor, Irish Limerick, Irish Pubs, March Holidays, Seasonal Verse, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick's Day Humor
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Seasons Humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 1st, 2016
At the start of each year, it’s tradition
To draw up a vow-list, the mission
Being clean up one’s act
In some way. But in fact,
Our lapses soon lead to contrition.
Tags: December Holidays, Holiday Humor, January Holidays, New Year's Humor, New Year's Resolutions Verse
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Holiday Humor, Limericks | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 31st, 2015
For her party, she planned lots of glitter,
But forgot; she’s a bit of a flitter.
So nothing was clinquant.
That gal was delinquent…
Also smart; this cut down on the litter.
Tags: Celebrations Poetry, Clinquant, Party Humor, Party Limerick, Word of the Day, WOTD
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Holiday Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on Not So Glittery Party (Limerick)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Limerick Ode To Pandemonium Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Pandemonium Day has arrived,
A fete that sounds rather contrived,
Because chaos surrounds us,
Abounds and confounds us.
So don’t count on it being high-fived.
Tags: Chaos Humor, July Holidays, Odd Holidays, Pandemonium Day
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Limerick Ode To Pandemonium Day
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
The U.N. has decreed June 21 to be International Day Of Yoga … which gives me a handy excuse to post this silly limerick:
A gal doing yoga while dressed
In a toga, when questioned, confessed
That her garb did not work—
Turned her poses berserk.
So instead of relaxed, she was stressed.
Tags: Clothing Humor, Exercise Humor, Health Limericks, International Day of Yoga, International Yoga Day, June Holidays, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Relaxation Humor, Stress Humor, Toga Humor, Yoga Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Clothing Humor, Exercise Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Physical Appearance | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015
My lim’rick obsession’s severe;
I write rhymes night and day ev’ry year.
My addiction is brutal.
Resistance is futile…
And I warrant the fault lies with Lear.
Happy birthday, Edward Lear, and Happy Limerick Day!
Tags: Addiction Humor, Birthday Limerick, Celebrations Poetry, Edward Lear, Holiday Poetry, International Limerick Day, May Holidays, National Limerick Day, Obsession Verse, Odd Holidays, Rhyming Obsession, Writers, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Addiction Humor, Authors & Playwrights, Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Holiday Humor, Light Verse, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | 2 Comments »
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Limerick Ode To “National Orgasm Day” (July 31)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s “National Orgasm Day.”
Just one day? I’m dismayed and say “Nay!”
To limit “Big Os”
Surely cries out for “NOs.”
I propose: Make it daily! Okay?
Tags: Bawdy Humor, Big O Humor, July Holidays, National Orgasm Day, Odd Holidays, Orgasm Humor, Sex Humor
Posted in Battle of the Sexes, Bawdy Limericks, Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 8 Comments »
