A Few Limericks for Fighting those Blues

Today is Wednesday and I’ve been as busy as a banshee. Are banshees busy? I liked the alliteration of the line but didn’t stop to consider its accuracy. Either way, it is Wednesday, and I hope everything’s well with anyone who comes across this! I’ve been mulling over the idea this past week of writing a sort of Canterbury Tales-like collection of poems from the perspective of woodland creatures in the future, but for now it’s just an idea. I don’t have the heart to undertake something that ambitious.

I wanted to share a few limericks, since they’re short and light to breeze right through. I hope it makes you smile, because that was my heart’s intent for writing them 🙂

Limerick on Philosophizing Scavengers

There once was a stoic hyena
Who went by the name of Selena:
While her sisters would laugh
She just looked up and asked,
“For what purpose am I a hyena?”

Limerick on Knowing Thine Enemy

There was an inscrutable mouse
Who riddled his way through a house:
He asked of a cat,
“What’s unlevel but flat?”
The cat answered by eating the mouse.

Limerick on Subverting Expectations

There once was a music instructor
With designs to become a conductor:
So, she studied a lot
About trains and whatnot,
Leaving music to be a conductor.

Limerick on Limited Menus

Three mallards walked into a bar
Having waddled a distance afar.
They quacked for some bugs
But the barman just shrugged,
So, the mallards departed the bar.

Limerick on Calvin and Hobbes

There was an excitable boy.
Rambunctious and clever, this boy!
His heart helped inspire
Life brought to a tiger
Which others observed as a toy!