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 […]
The limerick is such a simple form of poetry. And yet its rigid structure makes it surprisingly difficult to write a good one. But what’s even […]
The limerick is a relatively simple form of poetry. It has five lines in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme together; and the third […]
Samuel Johnson first coined the phrase Metaphysical Poetry in around 1780 to describe a very specific group of English poets of the 17th century, chiefly Abraham […]
Oftentimes, when people read my limericks, they’ll ask me something like, “How long have you been writing Haiku?” Of course, I’m delighted that they have taken […]
After writing a thousand limericks about everything from Black Holes to the Bhagavad Gita, I have to reflect on my own relationship with the limerick. It’s […]