Super Bowl - a Limerick

   

Courtesy Fortune.com click here

        Game Night

Super Bowl is worthy of watching

If it's not then catnap is catching

It was fun tonight

My team won their fight

Nickles and dollars bets I'm fetching 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

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this year's last Tuesday Poem

MERRY CHRISTMAS and

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

 

 

Together

O the things I might have done

The places I might have gone

Then that day you came along

Since, what I've done where I've gone

We did, we went, not alone

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 - Photos and Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2018 (top), 2016 (bottom two) and 2018 (poem), All Rights Reserved
 - I'm linked with Pat, aka willow-switches, at http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2018/12/tuesdays-last-platform-of-2018-all.html?m=1

Ides of March -- a Limerick Poem

Beware the Ides of March
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See they are come The Ides of March
Still our leader is in the arch
He's alive and well
Seer's word he'd quell
Here yes, today's still 15 March

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- - - Picture is "Public Doman' from Wikipedia,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March#/media/File:Vincenzo_Camuccini_-_La_morte_di_Cesare.jpg

I'm linked again with Kelly O'Conner at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, The Tuesday Platform ~~http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-tuesday-platform_14.html
Notes:
 - From Wikipedia, The Ides of March originally was a religious holiday.  Also Ides is a mid month celebration, on the 13th or 15th, on the 13th for most months, but on the 15th for March, May, July, and October. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
 
 - I first learned of the Ides of March from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. 
 
 - More from Wikipedia, "In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate. As many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, were involved. According to Plutarch,^[19] a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March.

 - "On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The Ides of March are come", implying that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."^[19] This meeting is famously dramatised in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."^[20][21] The Roman biographer Suetonius^[22] identifies the "seer" as a haruspex named Spurinna." 

 - I really wanted to write modern Ides thoughts but time got away from me -

 - Happy Ides of March Day -

 - Celebrate, don't dread it -

Happy National Pi Day ~~ a Pi Poem (Pi-om), this year a Limerick

To the fridge Grandfather Jim went 
In there he'd find a pie for Lent
The fridge was oh so bare
Leftovers and a hare
Rabbit fit for pie he was bent
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I've used the rabbit picture before, first in 2008 (link) as my Easter Rabbit surprise.  I have no idea where it originated, it came on a chain e-mailing.
Poem Copyright, © Jimmiehov 2017, All Rights Reserved

I'm linked with Kelly O'Conner at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, The Tuesday Platform ~~http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-tuesday-platform_14.html

Today is National Pi Day (check it) to celebrate March 14 (3rd month, 14th day -- 3.14 = pi)

"Pi" is a mathematical constant equaling 3.14159265359.  For most applications 3.14 or 3.1416 is usually sufficient.  For approximation we can use 3 1/7.

A lot of people will be writing a "Pi Poem.  Different form and free form will be used, some will use a Pi-Kau, a three line special poem of  a three syllable, a one syllable, and a four syllable lines.  This year I am writing a Limerick, one year I wrote pi-kau form.
My other years 'pi poems' are here.

• Pi is useful for finding areas and volumes when the object is a circle or a cylinder. 
• In a formula we can abbreviate pi to be represented for pi by using the Greek letter "π".
• What is Pi?  It is the circumference of any circle, divided by its diameter.  Also using this equation, we can back out and find dimensions by manipulating the formula.
• For example, knowing the diameter ("D") of a circle we can find the circumference ("C") by using the formula, C = π x D. 
• Pi Day also happens to be the birthday of Albert Einstein. (born 1879) You could eat a pie or play an Einstein-themed trivia game, or have an Einstein impersonator contest. 
• Mrs. Jim is making me a pi Day pie, I hope rhubarb.

I used a Pi a lot in my studies as I have eight college mathematics courses giving me a Minor of Math to supplement my Economics Major for my Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Houston.
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a Cheeseburger Limerick (poem)

National Cheeseburger Day

O Goodie, it's National Cheeseburger Day
I had mine for lunch, have you one today
Went to Whataburger
Senior drinks free, get urs
Not all give seniors free, some make us pay
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Photo and Poem Copyright , Jimmiehov 2016, All Rights Reserved

Her bad day ~~ a Limerick

Her Bad Day

She was all ready for the sack 
Bread, baloney, cheese, what the 'Hack'! 
Green mold, slime, 'Oh Fog'! 
Not fit for the dog 
Her bad day, fridge's out of whack 
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Photo and Poem Copyright 2016, @ Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 
 
This is my entry, I'm linked with Madeline Kane for her Limerick-off Monday contest
http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/category/limerick-offs

Again, I am linked with Marian Kent at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, Tuesday Platform
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-tuesday-platform_23.html

Notes:
- I've entered before but haven't ever won. Maddy and I are also Facebook friends. 
 - I don't cuss but have been knowing most of the cuss words since high school.
 - I misread the directions at first and had the first line using "snack" instead of the required word, "sack".  But too, that sounded better and made more sense, 'She was all ready for her snack."

World Poetry Day ~~ a Couple in Honor! ~~ a Senryu and a Limerick

Poems 101 
Roses are red, my poem 
Loved you then, still do 
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Poem Copyright, © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 

( more Senryu at http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/Senryū )

 #PoetryDay  #WorldPoetryDay 
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Another:

Two Friends

There under the elephant ear she laid
While in the kitchen my other throb played 
First one is my best girl friend
Second, wife 'til life does end 
Nice dog and good wife, sure I've got it made. 
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Photo and Poem Copyright, © 2006, 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
( more of Jim's Limerick poems at )
( http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/search/label/Limerick )

#PoetryDay  #WorldPoetryDay  

I'm linked with Madeleine Kane at Limerick Monday contest (link) where our rhyme words are LAID or MISLAID or DELAYED.

I'm also linked with the Tuesday Platform hosted by Marian
 at The Imaginary Garden with Real Toads (link)


Visit Huffington Post's, 

... our favorite women poets working today, in honor of Women’s History Month.

14 Brilliant Women Poets To Read On World Poetry Day , here at (link)

A Spine Poem again, Hornet's Nest -- Red Radish and the Beet, a Limerick

Hornet's Nest 

The house of widows 

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest 

Furiously happy 

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. - I'm linked with Marian  at The Tuesday Platform with the Real Toads in the Imaginary Garden.   

. - I chose my books from our ship (the Caribbean Princess) library.  This ship doesn't have much of a library, one row of bookcases.  The room is shared with the computer and Internet Room. Not real friendly neighbors. http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search/label/2016%20Caribbean%20Cruise

. - I hope you don't mind too very much, this one is marginal, perhaps not qualifying for a Haiku or a Senryū.  Thanks for peeking at my other poems, I try to write 'poems' of a sort most of the time.

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My entry to the current Limerick-Off Monday contest

http://www.madkane.com/humor_blog/category/limerick-offs/

Red Radish and the Beet

Said Red Radish to her friend Beet

“I’m Queen Vegie here” in her tweet

Corn said “real corny”

Trumpet vine, “horny”

Mary C picked them both, to eat

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. - Photos and Poems Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

Old Cannibal ~~ a Limerick for Sunday's Mini-Challenge

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The Old Cannibal 

Wild man he was, heathen in broad daylight 
Old cannibal, missionaries' delight 
Their telling how Jesus saves 
And of the Lord's golden caves 
Ate them with fork and knife, he'd seen the light 
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 - Poem Copyright © 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved 
 - Valentine Photo above from http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2016/02/sunday-mini-challenge-carpe-jugulum.html where I'm linking this post. Directions there are for us to " use the following quote, from Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum, as a foundation: “Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!
 - The idea for the above prompt was Imagined By Magaly Guerrero at the above link. 

Turkey Dinner -- a Thanksgiving Limerick

Turkey dinner relatives did attend
Enjoyed by all at least they did pretend
Cousins, aunts, uncles and in-laws
Turkey, dressing, corn and crab claws
Way too many, way too much, I contend

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Photos and Poem Copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

Today my Limerick is linked with Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane's Humor Blog where Mad's had instructed us to use at least one of the following words to end lines 1, 2, or 5:  TEND, ATTEND, OR PRETEND.

I am also linked with Marian at the Real Toads in the Imaginary Garden at The Tuesday Platform.  Her post is open to any poem, new or and older one.  This one is new.

shopping, a Limerick ― Day 13 of NaPoWriMo 2015

. . . [click on the picture to enlarge it, one or two times]

. . . The Lady Shopper

Lady fine goes to town, loves to shop
Nothing there that she knows she would cop
She likes to walk the aisles
Pretty things come from miles
Doesn't know what she wants 'til it drops
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Photo and Poem Copyright © 2015 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved

 ― I am linked with Susie Clevenger at the Real Toads, The Poetry In A Quote

 ― and to NaPoWriMo 2015, both for Day 13 of National Poem Writing Month

 ― Susie introduced a writer named Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934).  She is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism (Wikipedia).

 ― I chose this quote of hers to get me started: “I don't know what I think until I write it down.” ― Joan Didion
― Right away it reminded me of this, familiar to me, quote:"I don't know what I need until I see it." ― Mrs. Jim (her favorite saying when she's shopping)

She's a Bit Weird? -- A Limerick

She picks up quarters with her toes
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Has followings where ere she goes

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Her friends are getting skeered*

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They say she's a bit weird

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Think not, my tongue touches my nose
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Photo and poem copyright, © Jimmiehov 2014, all rights reserved

Today I'm linked with Mama Z. at the Real Toads, Words Count (Link)

She  said, "The older I get, the easier it is for me to admit that I'm a little weird. Yes, I can pick up a quarter using only my toes. Yes, I'm a water sign that hates the water. And, yes, I do watch Fox News just to ...  See?  A little weird."
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"What about you?  Are you a little weird, too?  Do tell . . . in 46 words or less."

My little Limerick has 31 words plus four in the title (post header). Guess I made under 46.

*  Skeered, '"It's the writer's way of imitating the strange accent of one of his characters. "Skeered" = "scared".' (Google Search)

Personal Challenge Poem -- A limerick, "Bad day at the golf course"

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Bad day at the golf course;

a limerick

Somebody had borrowed his wedge

Fine golfer he, chaos did edge

His keen direction had winged

Spoil his day, putter he flinged**

Subtle end, club's on his car ledge
 

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Photo and Poem  Copyright © 2014 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved

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I'm linked today with Real Toads, The Personal Challenge # 1 for 2014
My challenge was to use these ten words from D.H. Lawrence's The Song of a Man Who Came Through (I could have used only nine but I may have fudged on one [which?]):
*direction, *wedge, *chaos, *winged, *fine, *spoil, *borrowed, *subtle, *somebody, *keen *

**Note: Poet's license here, "flung" would be grammatically correct.

The Fast Ride -- A Limerick

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There was a young lass, drove her car

She liked to go fast, speed no bar

I'm stuck in a rut

Car won't get it up

To the metal, she's a race star
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(the driver is our four-year-old granddaughter, KP)

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Photos and Poem  Copyright © 2013, 2006 Jimmiehov. All Rights Reserved
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- Shared and listed with Real Toads, Open Link Monday

- For "Tuesday Two-Shoes" the November 19th the writing prompt words

..are  Fast and/or Smile (I used "Fast"). Josie Said, "Have Fun!" (Link)

August 26, 2015 -- I also listed with the Toads Tuesday Platform at
http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-tuesday-platform_25.html

Limerick Truck (Limerick-Off Monday) and a Halloween Limerick

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Good driver, bad driver
 
A man who was driving a truck
In the gooey mud he was stuck
He called for his dear wife
She said not on his life
Stuck in muck, he was out of luck
 

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A Halloween Limerick
 
Ghosts and goblins, gorillas too
Oh dear oh dear, what will we do?
You call 911
Tell what's being done
Cheers!  Happy Halloween to you!

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Photo and Poem Copyright
© 2013 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Inspired by Madeleine Kane's Limerick Humor Blog with  prompts provided
Today's prompt, "A man who was driving a truck," is found here .  Also the Halloween limerick instructions are on this page.

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Watch Where You Step;
A Limerick

A fellow was sneaking a peek
While he was playing hide and seek
What he then saw
Was pretty raw
Spoiled and rotten, it sure did reek

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Photo and Poem Copyright
© 2013 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Inspired by Madeleine Kane's Limerick Humor Blog with prompts provided
Today's prompt, "A fellow was sneaking a peek," is found here 

The Woman's Snake -- Limericks

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The Woman's Snake;
Two Limericks

A woman encountered a snake
Then it was Hubby, get the rake
Dad got his rake and spade
He raked the snake and prayed
And flayed the snake now in the lake

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A woman encountered a snake
who said, "Of the apple please take"
and promised her the world
Shared with Adam, they whirled,
were gone. God did evacuate

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(an acrostic senryū)

As quick as a flash
Snake like venomous and fast
Pony--Cobra Ford

Photo and Poems Copyright
© 2010 and 2013, 2013, and 2011 Jimmiehov
All Rights Reserved

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Inspired by Mad Kane's Limerick Humor Blog with prompts provided
This week's prompt, "A woman encountered a snake," is found here