Seems POTUS has blown his fifth chance,
For racial equalities advance.
Again he will flee,
NAACP,
Garnering awards for that old “Black-Face” dance.
President Discusses Education, Entrepreneurship & Home Ownership at Indiana Black Expo
(five more after the fold.)
“They’ve resorted to partisan war chants”.
Says Bill Frist, waltzing in the Rove dance.
“Is it not worse”, we must ask,
And rip away this false mask,
“Using partisan war chests to advance?”
Source: Rove Got CIA Agent ID From Media
Arnold made a big deal with Joe Weider,
Who was seeking to become an insider.
For the bills that he kills,
Joe would pay Arnold’s bills,
Who’ll atone for this “supplementary rider”.
Schwarzenegger Is Drawing Fire for an Ad Deal
Over Rove, the White House is still tense,
As The Times shills the latest nonsense.
With a wink and a nudge,
Drudge promoted this fudge,
The “Talk o’er the Fences” Defense.
Rove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. Officer
A boy from upstate New York,
Considered by some just a dork,
Did play by the rules,
Unlike those toadstools,
Who’d the plot of Harry Potter uncork.
Boy gets brief look at new ‘Harry Potter’
The Republicans regret they let Rove in,
After the lies and deceits he has woven.
‘Tis now their travail,
They never noticed his tail,
Or his horns, or his hooves that were cloven.
Sadly, only the last one almost fulfills the demanding structure of the true limerick a) insightful topic b) perfect rhythmic scanning c) arresting original rhymes d) funny
The others are just tortured. Sorry mate…
I am a work in progress, and will try to work harder…
At least you are trying something different – I’m all for it! This is a deceptively simple genre that has amused people for hundreds of years.
I also like deconstructed short poetry such as this old chestnut:
On The Antiquity of Fleas
Adam
had ’em
and threw these out before they were ready…I’m going to try to put lipstick on these pigs a little later if I get a chance during work today…
Simplicity is sometimes the hardest to accomplish.
Try haikku if you want to explore the succinctity of poetry 😉
bood writes with lipstick
distant paypackets jingling
as pigs deny it
sorry I used the Finnish spelling