9 New Limericks on June Nineteenth

It’s a been a busy year so far. Bouncing back from the stretch of pandemic, my kids are advancing in both attitude and aptitude. Meanwhile, I’ve been seeing a flurry of activity and a surge of interest in all my online activities. Requests for custom limericks are on the rise, and the online shop for King of Limericks ebooks is finally up and running.

Now it’s already June nineteenth, and I regret to say that I have not put together a collection of limericks for Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day. If that’s what you’re looking for, you might check out my series of Limericks about Civil Disobedience instead.

So as spring comes to a close, here’s a quick collection from the doodled pages of 2021, glistening with gratitude that it’s no longer 2020.

New Limericks about Poetry

     Poetic Licensure
     There once was a pedant who knew how to rhyme
     Whose syllables barreled with accurate time
               But poetry judges
               All brandish their grudges
     And label his lim’ricks a flowery crime

     Reinvention
     There’s a poet who’s somewhat demented
     From lim’ricks he’s never relented
               Away from Nantucket
               He swiftly unstuck it
     The genre he’s just reinvented

     Poetic Parameters
     Lighthearted lim’ricks bring pensive reflections
     While parsing my thoughts into well-measured sections
               Arranged with rigidity
               Also fluidity
     Balancing tides from opposing directions

New Limericks about Life

     Delayed Initiation
     Those unexposed are so easily frightened
     With decades of hindsight their senses are heightened
               Unveiling the stages
               The spectrum of ages
     Revealing who is and who isn’t enlightened

     Greet the Day
     Meet your surroundings with senses empirical
     No time for irony, nothing satirical
               Notice and measure these
               Numerous pleasantries
     Easily thought of as some sort of miracle

     Stepping Out
     Treading in quicksand for close to eternity
     Up to my earlobes with doubt and uncertainty
               Trapped in a tunnel
               The narrowing funnel
     A deafening chasm of sheer taciturnity

New Limericks about Mythology

     The Sound of Sirens
     The captain in debt and the deck in arrears
     Ulysses refuses to cover his ears
               With sirens and wailers
               It’s time for true sailors
     To face their temptations and conquer their fears

     Appealing the Fruit
     Evicted from Eden like previous tenants
     We’re destined to plea from a place of repentance
               Confronting contrition
               That thwarts our ambition
     We seek a new judgment to shorten the sentence

     Withering on the Cross
     There’s a Fisher of Men whom his friends would betray
     And repeating the crime we’ve abandoned the Way
               We banish the blessing
               Like hobgoblins pressing
     Insisting on Reason with feet made of clay

Further Reading

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