Hoping For Humor (Sundry Verse)
Today I’ve written four poems on a theme called hope. There’s a pair of quatrains, one haiku, and a limerick — something for everyone, or no one, as the case may be: Hope springs eternal— a “truism”...
View ArticleDear Emily Dickinson, Please Forgive Me
As part of its National Poetry Month and Poem In Your Pocket Day “Envelope Project” celebrations, New York City is running an Emily Dickinson related poetry contest. Basically, it involves writing your...
View ArticleHappy Limerick Day — May 12th (Acrostic Limerick)
Every year I like to celebrate Limerick Day (May 12) by writing a limerick in honor of Edward Lear, the father of the limerick. (Here are the two limericks I wrote in Lear’s honor last year.) Since...
View ArticleI Blame Edward Lear!
I Blame Edward Lear! (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane A woman who loves to write verse Has bits of it stuffed in her purse. She frets about rhyme Nearly all of the time. She’s addicted, for better or...
View ArticleHappy National Clerihew Day! (July 10)
I just found out that today (July 10) is National Clerihew Day. What the heck’s a clerihew? It’s a “whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.” More specifically,...
View ArticleOde To Gore Vidal (Limerick Obit)
Ode To Gore Vidal (Limerick Obit) By Madeleine Begun Kane Gore Vidal was an elegant writer, So acerbic, prolific, a fighter— The “Best Man” to make hay Over foibles — wordplay Fused with wit — an...
View ArticleHappy Book Lover’s Day! (Limerick)
Tomorrow, August 9, is Book Lover’s Day Needless to say, I’m celebrating with a limerick: Best Selling Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A fellow who had what it took To author a best selling book...
View ArticleWell-Endowed Limerick
Well-Endowed Limerick By Madeleine Begun Kane A man got a look at the titty Of the well-endowed, lovely Miss Kitty And imagined his life With that gal as his wife In his harem at Casa de Mitty. (With...
View ArticleLimerick Ode To Charles Dickens
Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens! (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) And happy Charles Dickens Day! Limerick Ode To Charles Dickens By Madeleine Begun Kane What day is today? The plot thickens: It’s the...
View ArticleLimerick Ode To “Be Humble Day”
Happy “Be Humble Day!” (February 22) Limerick Ode To “Be Humble Day” By Madeleine Begun Kane A man who was told to be humble Objected and started to grumble: “My modesty’s famed,” He loudly proclaimed....
View ArticleYet Another Limerick Day Ode to Edward Lear
It’s Limerick Day, in honor of Edward Lear’s birthday on May 12th, and so… Yet Another Limerick Day Ode to Edward Lear By Madeleine Begun Kane On May 12th I must celebrate Lear, Though he’s mostly to...
View ArticleAmbrose Bierce, A Limerick Birthday Ode (Born June 24, 1842)
Ambrose Bierce, A Limerick Birthday Ode By Madeleine Begun Kane Who the devil is Ambrose G. Bierce? An author whose insights were fierce. Each satirical lap Keenly cut through the crap With panache, as...
View ArticleLimerick Ode To Allen Ginsberg
Limerick Ode To Allen Ginsberg By Madeleine Begun Kane Were Ginsberg alive, how downbeat Might he be at our nation, replete With war, greed, repression, Conformist aggression! Would he Howl at our...
View ArticleDouble Dactyl For John Mortimer
Here’s my double dactyl to celebrate John Mortimer’s birthday today. (Though he died back in 2009, I still have vivid memories of meeting and interviewing him for a profile I wrote for British Heritage...
View ArticleHappy Limerick Day (and Edward Lear’s Birthday) (May 12)
My lim’rick obsession’s severe; I write rhymes night and day ev’ry year. My addiction is brutal. Resistance is futile… And I warrant the fault lies with Lear. Happy birthday, Edward Lear, and Happy...
View ArticleJust In Time For Book Lovers Day (Limerick)
Just in time for Book Lovers Day, celebrated both on the first Saturday of November and on August 9: Like most of my friends I love books, And I don’t want to read them on Nooks Or other devices; Real...
View ArticleHow To Deal With A Stubborn Donkey (Limerick)
After reading that the earliest use of “Proot” was found in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes,” I couldn’t resist writing this limerick: If your donkey behaves like a mule...
View ArticlePrank Gone Wrong (2-Verse Limerick)
An illustrious author named FrankSaid “I’ll stop writing books” as a prank.Many fans called him “Quitter,”Strew hate-posts on TwitterAnd Threads, wished him dead, said he stank.“You flamers should all...
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