Limerick Ode To The Gambler
Three Word Wednesday asks us to use chance, entice, and savor in a poem. I’ve coaxed them into this limerick: Limerick Ode To The Gambler By Madeleine Begun Kane A gambler enticed by the chance Of a...
View ArticleLimerick Claim (Limerick-Off Monday)
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...
View ArticleLimerick Fix (Limerick-Off Monday)
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...
View ArticleLimerick Advance (Limerick-Off Monday)
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...
View ArticlePowering-Through My Powerball Loss (Limerick)
I read Powerball news with chagrin. Yet again, I have lost. What a sin! But dismay I dismiss– There’s a lesson in this: You’ve got to be in it to win.
View ArticleGoose Day (Limerick)
A farmer who tried to produce A plausible, timely excuse For gambling away His nest egg, today Came up empty, self-cooking his goose. Happy Goose Day! (September 29)
View ArticleWoe-Ridden Gambler (Limerick)
A gambler who lost lots of dough On a horse race, was stunned by the blow: “Woe is me! I’m a chump! That damn horse took a dump Mid-race; he was rarin’ to ‘go.'”
View ArticleA Limerick Ode To Dice
“Our son has a terrible vice; He’s a gambler and not very nice. When we tell him to stop, He says, ‘Mother and Pop, All my cards on the table: No dice!'” (December 4 is “National Dice Day.”)
View ArticleLimerick-Off Monday – Rhyme Word: HEEL or HEAL at the end of any one line...
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a...
View ArticleThe Would-Be Borrower (Limerick)
A gambler I know, who’s a heel,Asked to borrow some cash for a meal:“I lost my last dime,But I win all the time,So just one crappy hand’s no big deal!”
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