PREPARED STATEMENTS
Today I took some poetry
To use at my counseling session…
As a guide to what was going on with me
And stuff I might forget to mention.
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Many of us write from inner pain
But using the “third person”…
Easier than to restrain
An unauthorised published version!
–Jonathan Caswell
LIMERICKS EXPLAINED
The gist of a poetic stand
Is how to create and expand…
Within certain rules
Significant jewels,
According to personal demand.
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A limerick is a one-stanza quip
Designed to give readers the slip…
Understanding
Gets a zing
When meaning starts to strip!
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The limerick, for those with no clue,
Is something poets will do…
A literature device
Of doggerel precise,
That has a kick to it, too!
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I’m glad that Mensa opened
The door to we “dullards” hoping…
In THE PENTATETTE*
Publication to get,
For its world-wide audience groping.
–Jonathan Caswell
*THE PENTATETTE, is the Limerick Special Interest Group’s newsletter, open to everyone. See www.pentatette.com, for details. Mensa is the society for high Intelligence Quotient individuals. THE PENTATETTE is one of their special projects open to those of average intelligence….like me! This author wrote and was published by them for several years in a row while sharpening his craft. 🙂 To quote their literature, PENTATETTE limericks are both “bawdy” and nice! Be warned….!
By the Mighty Mumford 