A Limerick

Limerick Challenge Week 29’s theme is: Time Travel (How could I pass that up?)

Limericks are humorous poems with the particular rhythm and rhyme scheme described below.*

Stay-and-Staycation

Our relatives sorely downhearted,
All cried when our ship’s engine started.
We flew faster than light
So the trip turned out right:
We came back long before we departed.

*limerick

/ˈlɪmərɪk/

noun

1. a form of comic verse consisting of five anapaestic lines of which thefirst, second, and fifth have three metrical feet and rhyme togetherand the third and fourth have two metrical feet and rhyme together (aabba)

*anapest or anapaest

[an–uh-pest]
noun, Prosody.
1. a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long inquantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed inaccentual meter, as in for the nonce.

Author: Sue Ranscht

Having survived valve repair surgery and an experimental cardiac bypass at age 5, three years before it was an accepted medical procedure, Susan grew into the size of her overworked and enlarged heart. Maybe she thought she had enough to give it away -- twice. Both times, she had to retrieve the shattered pieces and puzzle them back together. She thanks her Dad for the only advice of his she ever followed to the letter: "Never get married. Learn to take care of yourself." So of course she is a writer. Susan has co-written a YA SciFi novel, and has three more novels in various stages of evolution. She's had several short stories published in other people's anthologies, some of which were contest-related. Let her tell you a story...

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  7. It’s great fun writing these, especially in company! I worked on a ‘smoking cessation’ project (near where Edward Lear, Mr Silly Limericks, lived and worked for a while, appropriately) – we got a group of women together, held workshops then produced a bookletof distracting ideas – one was limerick writing. This was the mantra we put in the booklet to help:
    It’s easy as:
    one two three / one two three / one two
    one two three / one two three / one two
    one two three / one two
    one two three / one two
    one two three / one two three / one two

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      1. No, ma’am! I’m suggesting that limericks are your thing! A forte, so to speak. They work for your wit & humor, but you write in other forms very well too. Limericks just suit you. 🙂

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