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You just delight me, Pete .

You're very handy with this rhyming busyness, Witty.....and leave lotsa room for the reader's engagement, as well .

~ Lizzy

Witty wrote:

Laurie, Lizzie, glad you liked the Faddish.... Took a few hours to nut this out. But it gets away from the blueprint a bit. (Icicles style)

I could tell it was not an easy find.

And the word 'fuck' was never used in a more charming manner!

L

I'm a lady goblin cook
And that is why I'm in this book
I've made a little pixie cake
I'm going to throw into the lake
For in that lake there is a fish
And pixie cake's his favourite dish
I also gave one to my daughter
Right now she's eating under water.

This little Spike recipe won my heart with the 'lake' reference.

... .... I could have sworn I gave that fish to Byron at Christmas...must be another one in there... ...damn fish...
..should be good and fat by next Christmas...

How doyah do
in your house of dew
the hissing
oh the hissing
this is how
Im missing you
with a hissing
hiss hiss hissing
history is due
and our house
our big house
it is hissing
how how how
doya do?
But you're missing
miss miss missing
this is how
I'm hissing you.

Dear all,
Having been part responsible for this (wonderful ) thread slipping into a Milligan mode, I can't resist offering Forum members one of my favourite limericks by the great man:

A Family Man

A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior,
But one operation
Revised the situation
And now he's a Mother Superior.

Andrew.

There was a young man called McGeever
who wrote his poems with a cleaver
his verse came out sliced
but he missed when he diced
and now he sings just like a diva.


Pete
(sorry Andrew..it's just that your surname made the limerick work )

There was a maths teacher called Pete
who wrote verses, short and sweet;
but his fingers became busy
corresponding with Lizzy,
so now he just types with his feet.

Sorry, Pete, it's just that your forename made the limerick work

Andrew.

The 'stop watching this topic' button won't be pushed by me!

An American poet called Laurie
wrote a sestina in a hurry;
her family were upset
though she said "I've no regret",
but her psychiatrist is starting to worry.

LaurieAK, I just couldn't resist!

Andrew.

There was two blokes named Andrew and Pete
And never the twain should ever meet-
But if they did their choice of weapon
Would be pens or something to type on
Injuring with limerick beats!

(i know it is very lame!)

L

Hahaha!

I never should have admitted to writing a sestina

It is now on my permanent record-much like a driving infraction

Good one Andrew~

L

This one's for Jarkko.....

A Canadian poet called Cohen
never asked for his work to be shown,
but Jarkko, with a smile,
said "I'll create these Files
to let the whole world know you're known".

Andrew.

A great poet from Portobello
was know to be quite nice a fello.
When he limerickized
it was so oversized
that he made look old Lear rather shallo.

Sorry Laurie, I couldn't resist...

A sestina writer from Juneau
Tried writing a Limerick, you kneau.
though she said "it is lame",
it was not her to blame:
'cause the fault is the form's, as you, too, kneau.

Pete, if I forget thee...

Then the Gentle Giant from Matlock
broke jokingly out of his watlock.
When his wife in the dome
found his love song and pome
she condemned him to eternal datlock.