Archive for the ‘Celebrations Poetry’ Category
Monday, May 12th, 2014
It’s Limerick Day, in honor of Edward Lear’s birthday on May 12th, and so…
Yet Another Limerick Day Ode to Edward Lear
By Madeleine Begun Kane
On May 12th I must celebrate Lear,
Though he’s mostly to blame, it is clear,
For my rhyming affliction
And lim’rick addiction;
I’m perversely a fan, so I cheer.
Tags: Birthday Limerick, Celebrations Poetry, Edward Lear, Holiday Poetry, May Holidays, National Limerick Day, Odd Holidays, Writers
Posted in Authors & Playwrights, Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Light Verse, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 26th, 2014
Just Deserts (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
“It’s home-made” is just one of those lines
Often used after everyone dines,
And they’re serving dessert.
That’s when guests ought not blurt:
“Tell the truth; it’s a mix — ‘Duncan Hines.'”
Happy birthday to Duncan Hines — author, food critic, and founder of the company that bears his name. (March 26, 1880 – March 15, 1959)
(You might think that I use mixes; I couldn’t possibly comment.)
Tags: Cake Mix, Cakes Humor, Celebrity Birthdays, Dessert Humor, Dining Humor, Duncan Hines, Food Humor, March Holidays
Posted in Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Food & Drink Humor, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Just Deserts (Limerick)
Friday, March 14th, 2014
Happy Pi Day! (The last time I wrote a limerick for Pi Day, I was one day late. But this time I decided to be as precise as Pi.)
Limerick Ode To Pi Day (March 14th)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The math’matical constant called “Pi”
Is Greek to your average guy.
“Transcendental,” some call it,
But most people maul it;
Comprehension is pie in the sky.
Tags: Arithmetic, Celebrations Poetry, Education & School Humor, Greek, March 14th, March Holidays, Math Humor, Mathematics Poem, Odd Holidays, Pi
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Education & School Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 11 Comments »
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Happy National Punctuation Day (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
When you punctuate, please don’t be rash.
Over-use can turn prose into ash.
And a comma misplaced
Lays your writing to waste.
Mark my words … or your readers shall dash.
(National Punctuation Day is celebrated yearly on September 24th.)
Tags: Grammar Humor, Grammar Limerick, Language Satire, National Punctuation Day, Odd Holidays, Punctuation Humor, September Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Suspenseful Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There’s a hitch in today’s celebrations,
But no reason to hold back libations.
Cuz it’s not for the birds
And it’s not just the nerds
Who commemorate Hitchcock’s creations.
Happy National Alfred Hitchcock Day!
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock Humor, Film Limerick, March Holidays, Movie & Play Humor, National Alfred Hitchcock Day, Odd Holidays, The Birds
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Entertainment Humor, Limericks, Movie & Play Humor, Odd Holidays | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 11th, 2013
After I posted a limerick celebrating “Worship Of Tools Day,” a Facebook Friend informed me that March 11th is also National Napping Day. So I must immediately correct this oversight:
Dueling Holidays (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s holiday time on all fronts,
And I’m feeling a bit like a dunce:
Though I recognized Tool Day,
I missed Naps Are Cool Day.
Please don’t nap and use tools all at once.
Tags: Home Repair Humor, March Holidays, Napping Limerick, National Napping Day, Odd Holidays, Sleep & Insomnia Humor, Tools Limerick, Worship Of Tools Day
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Sleep & Insomnia Humor | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
When I wrote my Pie-Eyed Limerick for National Pie Day, I mentioned that I happen to hate pie. This seemed to shock several Facebook friends, who demanded an explanation. Here it is:
Yet Another Pie Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
For those who keep asking me why
I’ve a deep-set aversion to pie,
My antipathy’s based
On its texture and taste.
Change my mind? Sorry, pie in the sky!
Tags: Celebrations Poetry, Food Humor, January Holidays, National Pie Day, Odd Holidays, Pie Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
So, is everyone ready for National Pie Day? It’s celebrated every year on January 23rd. Warning: Do NOT confuse it with Pi Day, which is celebrated annually on March 14th.
I actually hate pie. (Now a good chocolate brownie is another story altogether.) But I wouldn’t let my pie-aversion get in the way of a limerick:
Pie-Eyed Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
“Two holidays often confused
Are Pi Day and Pie Day,” he mused.
“One’s for math-hungry dudes
And dudettes. One’s for foods.
For the former, I need to be boozed.”
Tags: Arithmetic, Celebrations Poetry, Food Humor, January Holidays, March Holidays, Math Humor, Mathematics Poem, National Pie Day, Odd Holidays, Pi, Pi Day, Pie Limerick
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
Ode To Gore Vidal (Limerick Obit)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Gore Vidal was an elegant writer,
So acerbic, prolific, a fighter—
The “Best Man” to make hay
Over foibles — wordplay
Fused with wit — an enlightened igniter.
Tags: Authors & Playwrights, Best Man, Gore Vidal, Limerick Obit, Obit
Posted in Authors & Playwrights, Celebrations Poetry, Limerick Obituary, Limericks | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Limerick Ode To Bastille Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s Bastille Day, Quatorze Juillet,
A time of panache and cachet.
Un jour férié—
La raison: Liberté.
Mon Français clearly sucks. Bonne journée.
(Dverse Poets Pub prompts us to write about Bastille Day.)
Tags: Bastille Day, Celebrations Poetry, DVerse, France Limerick, French Holidays, French Humor, French Limerick, July 14th, July Holidays, Liberty
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Holiday Humor, Limericks | 20 Comments »
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
I just found out that today (July 10) is National Clerihew Day. What the heck’s a clerihew? It’s a “whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.”
More specifically, clerihews are four-lines long with an A-A-B-B rhyme scheme and irregular meter. The first line names a person — the subject of the poem.
Here are a couple I’ve written about writers:
Edgar Allen Poe
A writerly bro
Who’s famed for the Raven.
What a scary poem maven!
*****
The author George Orwell
We ought not ignore well;
His writings polemic
Ain’t at all academic.
*****
And here are two about actresses:
Bette Davis
Film joy gave us.
Seduced gals and guys
With Bette Davis Eyes.
*****
Mae West
For life had zest.
Stoked gals and blokes
With “evil” jokes.
*****
(You can find my political clerihews here.)
Happy birthday to George Orwell, born June 25, 1903.
Tags: Bette Davis, Clerihew, Edgar Allen Poe, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, George Orwell, July Holidays, June Birthdays, Mae West, National Clerihew Day, Poetry Forms
Posted in Actors & Actresses, Authors & Playwrights, Books, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Clerihews, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Poetry Forms, Public Figures | 8 Comments »
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
April’s a big month for poets — National Poetry Month. This means that instead of simply enjoying spring, poets drive themselves extra crazy by vowing to write a poem a day.
My first April effort was this week’s Limerick-Off challenge. Only 29 poems to go.
Here’s a limerick for Day 2:
Happy National Poetry Month! (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
April’s Poetry Month. Say “Hurray,”
As we vow to write verse ev’ry day.
But that promise is hard,
For this limerick-bard.
Cuz, alas, I have nothing to say.
Tags: April Holidays, Limerick Poems, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, Poetry Celebrations, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Creativity Verse, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Writing & Publishing Humor | 16 Comments »
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
As I mentioned yesterday, the Girl Scouts are celebrating their centennial birthday this week. But that’s just one of many significant occasions this month.
We commemorated International Women’s Day last week. And math fans will be celebrating Pi Day on March 14th. And, of course, just about everyone will be enjoying St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th.
But St. Patrick’s Day has to share its day with a lesser known celebration: On March 17, 1845, Stephen Perry patented the rubber band in England:
Limerick Ode To The Rubber Band
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s no stretch to contend this invention
Prevents loss using rubbery tension.
Those elasticized bands–
Loopy tools in our hands!
This retention aid merits ascension.
Tags: Inventions Poem, March Holidays, Rubber Bands
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Holiday Humor, Inventions Humor, Limericks | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Yet Another Valentine’s Day Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
St. Valentine’s Day can be risky
Cuz the men folk do tend to get frisky.
And watch out for the pious:
They sure like to try us
Before and yes after their whiskey.
*****
St. Valentine’s Day
may be over in theory–
never in spirit.
Tags: Battle of the Sexes, Drinking Limerick, February Holidays, Haiku & Senryu, Holiday Fun, Holiday Haiku, Liquor Humor, Romance Humor, Valentine Day's Humor, Whiskey
Posted in Battle of the Sexes, Bawdy Limericks, Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Haiku & Senryu, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Relationship Humor | 16 Comments »
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
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 fellow whose last dime was spent…
or
A woman whose last dime was spent…
Here’s mine:
Spent Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A fellow whose last dime was spent
On a gal below age of consent
Did nothing illicit,
Though mom was complicit:
‘Twas a “sweet sixteen” birthday event.
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.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please send me an email requesting the alerts. You’ll find my email address on the upper right sidebar, in the “Author” section just below my Limerick-Offs button. Thanks!
Tags: Age Of Consent, Birthday Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Money Verse, Parenting Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Sweet Sixteen Party, Writing Prompts
Posted in Bawdy Limericks, Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Children Humor, Contests, Family & Relatives Humor, Family Verse, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest, Relationship Humor | 75 Comments »
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Today, October 22, is the birthday of the Hungarian virtuoso pianist/composer/conductor Franz Liszt. Some people consider Liszt to be the world’s first rock star.
Birthday Limerick For Franz Liszt
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The pianist/composer named Liszt
Was as hot as the cancan and twist:
Caused a Beatle-like heat—
Gals would swoon from his beat
And the sounds he produced with each wrist.
Tags: Celebrities, Celebrity Birthdays, Composers, Conductors Humor, Franz Liszt, Music Humor & Verse, Pianists, Public Figures, Rock Stars
Posted in Birthday Verse, Celebrations Poetry, Celebrity Humor, Limericks, Music Humor & Verse, Public Figures | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Labor Day’s coming —
the jobless labor to find
cause to celebrate.
Sorry about the downer haiku. To compensate, here are two old humor columns of mine: Just In Time For Labor Day, Some Job Interview Humor and Working Stiffed.
Tags: Employment, Haiku & Senryu, Labor Day, September Holidays, Work Humor, Workplace Poetry
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Haiku & Senryu, Holiday Humor, Workplace & Career Humor | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
When I went to school a zillion years ago, using Pi was a given in math class. So I was astonished to learn that some mathematicians favor using Tau instead. What’s the difference? While Pi’s value is 3.14 plus an endless bunch of post-decimal digits, Tau’s value is double Pi at 6.28 (plus its own post-decimal digits*.) And while Pi is celebrated on March 14th, math fans commemorate Tau on June 28th.
I figured that since I’ve already written Pi a limerick ode in its honor, Tau deserves the same treatment:
Mathematical Cat Fight (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It seems Pi has a challenger — Wow!
The name of its rival is Tau!
Its value is twice
That of Pi — oh how nice!
“2 Pi R” becomes “Tau R.” Meow!
Happy Tau Day!
* Edited for clarity.
Tags: Arithmetic, Celebrations Poetry, Education & School Humor, June 28th, June Holidays, Math Humor, Mathematics Poem, Pi, Tau
Posted in Celebrations Poetry, Education & School Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Seasons Humor | 19 Comments »
Monday, May 16th, 2011
I’m always looking for fun ways to jumpstart my muse. A new favorite is this Serendipitous Oxymoron writing prompt generator over at the Writing Fix. Just a couple of clicks can pair you up with an amusing or thought-provoking oxymoron. For instance, today it gave me “Tasty Tragedy,” which inspired this limerick:
Tasty Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The baker delivered his cake,
As the bride yelled, “I’ve made a mistake!”
She canceled her vows.
But that cake sure got wows,
As the wedding turned into a wake.
UPDATE: November 26th is National Cake Day.
Tags: Bakery, Baking Humor, Brides & Grooms, Cakes, Food Verse, National Cake Day, November Holidays, Odd Holidays, Oxymorons, Serendipity, Wedding Humor, Writing Fix, Writing Prompts
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Celebrations Poetry, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Odd Holidays, Oxymoron Humor | 10 Comments »
