A Holiday Of Sorts (Limerick)

A Holiday Of Sorts (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane

How I savored my marvelous break
From political venom — each snake
Of a pol now defanged,
And no one harangued.
At the time, though, I wasn’t awake.

Note: This limerick started out as haiku, inspired by the Twitter prompt word “venom.” But just as I was about to post it, I noticed I’d placed the word “break” (which has tons of rhyme words) at the end of line one. And it occurred to me to try to turn it into a limerick. Of course, as soon as the rhyme word “awake” hit me, I had my last line. So NOT writing a limerick would have been criminal.

Here’s my original haiku:

Imagine a break
from political venom–
puffed up pols defanged.

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2 Responses to “A Holiday Of Sorts (Limerick)”

  1. Thomas Gorman says:

    I’m so glad that Christmas is over
    For now I can bathe in clover
    So happy am I
    I just might eat pie
    And so again be a rover.

  2. Thomas Gorman says:

    How I savored my marvelous break
    From political venom and hate
    If I don’t watch Fox News
    I won’t know what to do
    And of nothing left to stew or bake!