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Choose a famous poem and write it in limerick form, putting the title of the original poem at the top. Please fit your chosen poem into one limerick (five lines) only. See “How to Write a Limerick.” Post your limerick in the comments section below. See examples:
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Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost)
The first green of nature is gold.
The hardest of colors to hold.
Her new leaf is a flower,
Bright and bold for an hour
Till the winter, the Frost and the cold.
—Mike Bryant
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Still I Rise (Angelou)
Oil pumps and then wells in my eyes.
Diamonds meet at the top of my thighs.
I have no room for gloom;
To the moon with all doom.
Like the hot air in lies, I will rise!
—Susan Jarvis Bryant
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Humpty Dumpty.
Humpty Dumpty was perched on a wall.
He suffered a life-changing fall.
The king’s fix-em-up
Was a failure, and yup,
He’s sueing, imagine the gall!
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN by Robert Frost
I pondered on which way to go
When faced in the wood by two roads
My choice – the less travelled –
Fixed how life unravelled
I’ll claim but I really don’t know
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Two roads parted ways in the wood;
I’d have wandered down both, if I could.
But I had a quick gander
And chose to meander
Down one… bet the other was good.
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
It’s not hard to master the art.
Some things seem designed from the start
To be lost or forgot
Or misplaced… you know what?
It’s not such a bad thing to part.
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
All young virgins should without delay
Give it up with the thought ‘Seize the day!’
For life’s the most pleasant
When you’re adolescent
Once that’s gone then there’s only decay
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by H. W. Longfellow
The tide rises and the tide falls,
As darkness settles on the walls;
The morning breaks,
The traveler wakes-
But the sea, in darkness, still calls.
The Wandering Wavering Wayfarer
Perceiving the pathway to truth
Is akin to one’s eye or one’s tooth
Perception be damned
If it’s borrowed or rammed
Down the throats and the minds of our youth.
Nature’s first green is gold
‘Tis a glorious sight to behold
And we’d sing and we’d dance
And only boys wore the pants
I can’t BELIEVE this crap ever sold!
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace:
I’m sorry for going to war,
Not being with you anymore;
But I couldn’t love you
As much as I do
If I didn’t love honor more!
The Tay Bridge Disaster
By William Topaz McGonagall
How we cheered as our train steamed away,
Pounding over the silvery Tay,
Racing swift as a hart,
Till the bridge fell apart
And that totally ruined our day.
Catullus – 5
Oh, give me a thousand sweet kisses
So I’ll understand what true bliss is.
And more thousands until
We’re so wrapped in our will,
I forget you are somebody’s missus.
e.e. cummings – “first robin the”
i see the first robin of this spring
to no one else says he a damned thing
i’m trying to type
what some may call tripe
with all of my majuscules missing!
The Road Not Taken (Frost)
I begged I was mistaken
And late but was not faking
I blame, I guess,
My GPS
I missed the road not taken
I’ll Twine ‘Mid the Ringlets
by the mysterious “Maud Irving”
I’ll twine my black ringlets of hair
With pale blooms, a warning, beware
He’ll rue the dark hour
With the frail wildwood flower
When betrayal’s revenge shall not spare
“We Are Seven” by William Wordsworth
An eight-year-old took it as given
That a brother and sister in Heaven
And four still alive
With herself who made five
Were why she could say, “We are seven!”