Is that the new format also for the SHARK POOL workshop adventure?

Where are you, Jess? You are the leader, n'est-ce pas? I'm afraid the shark pool sharks
will no longer be swimming if not for your hand testing the waters.

~A

nice to see you around again hope your fully back soon Buddy.

Eddie

Now that's the kind of challenge that can really be fun.........stan

Jess,

I really can't wait
To fully participate
In this new challenge

HS

Apparently it's not a workshop challenge, but for the July issue of Neopoet Newsletter.

So hurry.

~A

Limerick (True tale)

There once was a man from America
Who did not posess any healthcare
He stole from robbed a bank
To get thrown in the tank
So he could get some medical care.

Haiku (also true!)

Hearing gull's sad cry,
I looked to see it soaring
And it shit in my eye.

Once upon a time there was a metaphor
that knocked and knocked on every poet's door
there was no use in blaming the muse
to feign abuse or to be obtuse,
poems fell from the ceiling through the floor

&

the sky is falling,
dreams translucent with silence
words like lightning bolts

~A

Ok I didn't get the limerick thing, the haiku will suffice, no?

And if you would be so kind, help me to rewrite the limerick to make it *jive* if not shake rattle and roll. (I got rhythm but I can't sing.)

Thanks.

~A

Haiku

Gentle evening breeze
brings aromas of summer
until the dog farts

limerick later, gotta wash blood off white van now lol...........stan

An interesting challange, good Elf
One hardly needs reach for the shelf
To search for a tome
On the five-lined poem
One that pleases the gnome and ones self

Cheers,
Psyve

P.S. Please, Teacher, do I get a lollipop for that additional internal rhyme("gnome") in line 5 that ties back into lines 3 & 4?

Serious limerick

There came a most terrible flood
covering everything with slime and crud
washed out all the bridges
chased folk up to the ridges
turning highways to rivers of mud

two funny (I hope) haiku

haiku are wide-eyed
buddha-smiles in naked concepts -
one sneeze -- haiku gone!

a wedged group of geese
cackles above dressed up crowd -
droplets of whiteness

greetings,
Erwin

(a poem a day keeps the doctor away)

Hi Jess, its been a long time elf. Hope all is good.

Well this sounded to fun to be left out of. I haven’t been around, or writing much. But I am here now and this seemed just the thing to loosen me up.. It did. I look forward to your thoughts on my 3 little diddy’s elf, I am sure my form will lack in some line. But that’s how I learn. I like what I have been reading and I can’t wait to read what everyone else will do! Fun, fun

You don’t say?,

Holy shit no-way you don’t say
Only the random shit in the way
I sat my ass down
Felt quite the clown
So screw-it, maybe another day

Jerk,

I glared with a look of disgust
He sacrificed the truth and trust
We wanted the best
So put it to the test
To find what we had was a bust

African violet

Five pedal’s
So sweetly scented
Alight with dew drop’s

my interest is stimulated by this challenge...will have a go at it...how long is the time frame for submission?...i never done a limmerick so far leave alone a serious one and neither a funny haiku...i am setting up the pin ball machine now ...with a hope to hit pay dirt...lol...

An astronomer who belittled Sir Einstein
was crucified for his icky wacky brain
he shone brightest amongst the stars
with count less mega watts
sucking all light from our planet

how about this maiden attempt of mine at writing a Limerick and that too of a serious kind? ..

the loudest noise
in the void of solitude
is of my echoes

Ok I misread the instructions. A serious limerick and a funny haiku.

the sky is falling
Sir Chicken Little is dead
it fell on his head

there once was a pregnant muse
who was not very amused
by her words she got fat
and blamed Felix the cat
when word was out, she already mewed.

ok the limerick's not serious, just practicing, Jess.

And who says *haikus don't rhyme* if they accidentally fall that way??????

Yeah, I know...practice makes perfect. practice practice practice, eh, Mr. Weirdly Elf.

~A

This blog has been a lot of fun both to participate in and to read. Kudos............stan

A  serious lim’rick is dead

If it’s not well thought out in your head

If you start to warm

To the Style of the Form

You risk raising a smile as it’s read

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Haiku’s a bit like

The end credits rolling, just

As the movie starts

Her face is crimson
Loud is her palpitation,
There is lightning emotion,
She whines in motion,
Hear the sky!