New Joke Contest — Limericks
The March contest is Current Limericks. Sol Morrison from Santa Barbara said “Let’s do limericks.” And we agree. Your challenge this month is to write a limerick poem. Of course the idea is to make it funny. The theme of the limericks will be Current Events. Each limerick should be about something happening in today’s news headlines.
New Joke Contests are announced at the start of the month. The next contest will be announced April 1 (no fooling).
Here’s a brief description of a limerick. If you want more information visit Wikipedia.
Line one: LONG ta ta tum ta ta tum ta ta Rhyme A
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Line three: SHORT ta ta tum ta ta Rhyme B
Line four: SHORT ta ta tum ta ta Rhyme B
Line five: LONG ta ta tum ta ta tum ta ta Rhyme A
Your limerick will need to match the rhyme pattern AABBA. The cadence and rhythm of your poem should be close. Here are three examples:
POLITICS AS USUAL
The country is waist deep in debt
But there really is no need to sweat
Borrow more for today
We can go out and play
On Congress we’ll trust our big bet
SWEET SIXTEEN
If you truly want to win more
It depends on the final score
March Madness is here
If you’re drinking beer
Good judgment you may just ignore.
A CHANCE ON LOVE
Internet I gave it a whirl
But dating just made my head swirl
I splashed on some Brut
And thought she’d be cute
Then met an imaginary girl
Try to write three limericks. They don’t have to be perfect, but do the best you can. The value is in the experience of writing them. The best thing to do is write a limerick and then let it sit for a day. Revisit the poem and edit it. Writing gets better by the process of rewriting.
Pick any current events topic. You can write on the same topics as the examples provided above, or select one from the dozens (hundreds) of news headlines we’ve seen in the past month.
Select your best poem and submit it. If you have three poems you’re proud of, submit all of them by sending them to us at HumorPowerTips@HumorPower.com by March 15, 2013.