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April 2016 - Limerick - Prize -$25 USD Amazon.com Gift Certificate
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Limerick
- A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA. Edward Lear, who popularized the form, fused the third and fourth lines into a single line with internal rhyme. Limericks are traditionally bawdy or just irreverent
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175025
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171641
- No pornography
- No profanity
Sponsor(s): Jonathan Moore
Judge(s): TBD
Objectives: Expand your poetry range
Subject matter: Open
How Judged: Adherence to the rules, creativity
Winning entry