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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glowworm'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Sneak a peek at that gleaming green light!
Like a firefly, it beams. What a sight!
It glistens and glimmers—
While crawling, it shimmers.
The glowworm: My flashlight at night. <LIMERICK_END> | 61,163 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pay'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If you think that it's likely your cust-
omer won't pay his bills, and go bust,
Seek an entrepreneur
Who's del credere, sir:
For a fee, it is he who must trust. <LIMERICK_END> | 34,963 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dressmaker frantic'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The dressmaker, frantic, would shout
When the order was late getting out.
"Move your buns!" she would crack
To the seamstress in back,
As she busily bustled about. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,176 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'begot'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> First, A begat B begat C
Begat D begat E begat me.
Though I'd like to beget,
I have not begot yet.
I'll be getting it soon wait and see! <LIMERICK_END> | 5,046 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'political swaying'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> This follow-my-leader we're playing
Involves no political swaying.
We just copy each stunt
Of the person in front:
He dictates; we pursue him, obeying. <LIMERICK_END> | 52,267 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'douglas macarthur'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> General Douglas MacArthur, in war,
Was a leader, not equalled before,
Who, in military strife,
Dedicated his life
To "The Corps and The Corps and The Corps." <LIMERICK_END> | 29,792 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'count noun'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A count noun? Not noble. Its peer
Is the mass noun, so let me make clear
Which one takes a or an,
In the singular—can
Be made plural, if need should appear. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,048 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'giant lumberjack'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Giant lumberjack? Give me a break.
As folklore, Paul Bunyan's a fake.
From tall tales at the start,
Ad campaigns played a part —
People profited, make no mistake. <LIMERICK_END> | 56,724 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'susan boyle'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Said the girl, "'Ere I pass from this coil
And I'm buried six feet in the soil,
I shall learn how to sing
Like a lark in the spring."
And she tried but she's no Susan Boyle. <LIMERICK_END> | 32,802 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'purse bertha'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though I've practiced some mugging—a bit—
Among masters of crime I don't fit.
As I grabbed at her purse,
Bertha bit out a curse,
And she bit my left arm, so I split. <LIMERICK_END> | 31,751 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'godfrey gray'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Young Godfrey's gray days seem a slog
But for evenings with coeds ajog
Down the track near his dorm
Showing fine, firm, fit form;
Graced with girls, Godfrey's gaze goes agog. <LIMERICK_END> | 5,264 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'school mortarboard'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Your son's failing," the principal said.
"There'll be no graduation for Ted.
On his head he won't wear
The school's mortarboard. There
We'll be placing a dunce cap instead." <LIMERICK... | 40,296 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'say cadbury'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Some say Cadbury's is better than Lindt,
But that only applies if you're skint.
For true chocoholics,
Beguiled by their frolics,
Mister Cadbury won't cost them a mint. <LIMERICK_END> | 13,557 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'asunder sublime'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I find rending asunder sublime,
And such tearing away's not a crime.
So I split things apart —
I divel and, at heart,
I am having a right ripping time. <LIMERICK_END> | 35,872 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'joe stared'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Joe stared fixedly, fully engrossed,
Deaf to questions proposed by his host,
Who addressed his pale guest
Asking why he was stressed,
As he seemed to be seeing a ghost. <LIMERICK_END> | 52,537 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'almond oil'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> What's called almond oil comes in two kinds.
There's the bitter—it's poison. One finds
That there's also the sweet
That is harmless to eat,
So let's not mix them up in our minds. <LIMERICK_END... | 11,623 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'making allusions'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Tom's habit of making allusions
Very often begets wrong conclusions.
It's a style he prefers.
His oblique speaking blurs
What he means and then causes confusions. <LIMERICK_END> | 65,797 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'playing bridge'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Playing bridge? Feeling really astute?
Learn this rule: if you can, follow suit.
And so, what is your aim?
You must put down the same—
Spade, heart, diamond or club. No dispute! <LIMERICK_... | 53,646 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'get divorce'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If you're looking to get a divorce,
But can't wait while the law takes its course,
Then just get out a knife
And end all the strife
By aspertee that is, by force. <LIMERICK_END> | 34,322 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'countercyclical policies'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Countercyclical policies slow
An economy racing on "go,"
Or they heat one that's cool.
In a sense, they're a tool
That controls with both "Get up!" and "Whoa!" <LIMERICK_END> | 22,142 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'never balk'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Never balk, or surrender one inch,
And success you'll most certainly clinch;
If you're sure that your goal
Stirs your heart and your soul,
Go the distance, stick at it, don't flinch. <LIMERICK... | 60,864 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'brain duller'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My brain's dumb on some days, ideas nil,
Like I took a stupidity pill.
Dear, it worries me so,
As I think you should know
That on others my brain's duller still. <LIMERICK_END> | 53,700 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'address'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When he found the address, he felt dire
Forebodings and flashes of ire.
By a fence he was stopped.
It was locked and was topped
With some sharp concertina barbed wire. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,824 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cadaver dog'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You are missing. You're murdered: the end.
The police a cadaver dog send.
He sniffs out the ground
Where you lie you are found.
In a way he's your very last friend. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,802 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eyed appearance'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> From her deep-eyed appearance, it's clear
She's been dead now for almost a year.
I can not look away
Since I know that, some day,
This is just how I too will appear. <LIMERICK_END> | 36,689 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sweet crunch'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When you're sensing a gap in your gut
But you don't feel like being a glut,
Then just munch for your lunch
And enjoy the sweet crunch
Of albumen (the flesh of a nut). <LIMERICK_END> | 18,685 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fatted bovine'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> That there heifer's as thin as a rail.
Flesh her out till her bulk's off the scale.
Fatted bovine allure
Ain't quite right for couture,
But at auction it's not known to fail. <LIMERICK_END> | 63,559 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'numeral eight'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A number that's cubic? Mais oui —
For example, I think we'd agree
That the numeral eight
Was predestined by fate
To be two with the exponent three. <LIMERICK_END> | 39,604 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hurled birdbrain'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It was brutal: their words should have hurt.
He hurled "birdbrain!" She countered "stuffed shirt!"
In a bitter exchange.
So their conduct seemed strange
When she slid his hand under her ... | 50,829 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'antiquities'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The antiquities lining this room
Were unearthed near King Ptolemy's tomb.
They're millennia old,
Made of silver and gold,
And if sold, spell the purchaser's doom. <LIMERICK_END> | 8,453 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gardens'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Our house has two gardens; I guess
Cultivation is not a success
Since the front plot with flowers
Is tended for hours
And the back one's a bit of a mess. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,945 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'balls carved'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The billiard balls carved in the past
Out of ivory leave me aghast,
So the ones in my closets
Were formed from composites
Like bonzoline, pressed and not cast. <LIMERICK_END> | 9,437 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'game crastination'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Tomorrow I will," so you say,
"Do … whatever. Now please go away."
It is always the same;
You're so good at this game—
Crastination's the word of the day. <LIMERICK_END> | 25,959 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'annelid worms'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In biology class I learn terms
For the eggs of some annelid worms.
They are atokous, hexed
(As they're wholly un-sexed)—
Just to think of it gives me the squirms. <LIMERICK_END> | 9,614 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'line snip'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Hold the little guys, showing each tip
And I'll go down the line, snip, snip, snip.
It is one of life's joys
To trim down little boys,
Five or ten, even more, at a clip. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,082 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bright'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Jay complained, "It's too bright, I'm afraid.
This apartment I must double-shade."
(If the light were more dim,
Mom would never see him
As he played racy games with the maid.) <LIMERICK_END> | 44,538 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coursework'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The coursework assigned here at Brown
Is a chore, and it's getting me down.
All the reading each night
And the papers to write
Make it hard to go drinking in town! <LIMERICK_END> | 23,106 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abstinency'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Abstinency!" That is the cry
Of the "Keep your virginities!" guy.
"Doesn't abstinence mean
The same thing?" asked a teen.
"Yes, but this way, I hope you'll c y." <LIMERICK_END> | 17,389 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'doughnuts'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I'm the early bird here, I confess,
In the office by six, more or less.
Some resent this, I see,
And leave doughnuts for me.
What they're filled with, I don't want to guess. <LIMERICK_END> | 42,901 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bull eyes'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The bigeyes or bull's eyes are fish —
Priacanthidae good as a dish
And for beauty. They're red,
Live near reefs, and it's said
One once offered a goodman a wish. <LIMERICK_END> | 60,119 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'data'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Should we say "data are" or it "is"?
I don't know the grammarian biz;
I just know for a fact
Since my passwords were hacked
Someone else is now calling mine his! <LIMERICK_END> | 27,554 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'falcon'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> There's the osprey, the honey, the moor;
Then the town prefixed Leighton (obscure).
Buteo is the bird,
And buzzard's the word.
Types of falcon they're varied, for sure. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,474 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rabbit'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> That furry thing out in the heather
That hops to and fro in fair weather,
Adults call, from habit,
A bunny or rabbit,
But kiddies run both words together. <LIMERICK_END> | 45,878 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'two doobs'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> This story will make your day brighter:
"With two doobs in a boat sat a writer.
With no match, did he pout?
Nope, he threw one joint out,
So the boat became one doobie lighter." <LIMERICK_END> | 64,042 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chondrules'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Very old pyrotechnic creations,
The chondrules reward observations,
For these mineral beads
Are astronomers' leads
To cosmogony's deep revelations. <LIMERICK_END> | 18,527 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'drank'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Last night we drank Lager and Lime
And sang many a light-hearted rhyme
On fair lassies and drinking.
Of course, we were thinking:
"We're having a really good time." <LIMERICK_END> | 62,523 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'life dream'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Yes, it's true that for some, life's a dream.
That's not always the case; it can seem
It's a nightmare so bad,
If one's story's real sad,
That in place of wide smiles, there's a scream. <LIMER... | 41,571 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cynara genus'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Cynara's a genus of thistle,
With spikes that can prick as they bristle.
What makes them incredible?
Some species are edible.
Mom Nature's great works make us whistle! <LIMERICK_END> | 34,251 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bruce'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> There's a pesky young chancer named Bruce,
Who for morals and rules has no use.
Though not actually bad,
He's a bit of a lad—
People say that he plays fast and loose. <LIMERICK_END> | 48,465 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'compete'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A unique way of breaking the ice
Is Strip Yahtzee, but take my advice:
Check, before you compete,
That the game is complete.
What you don't want to hear is "No dice!" <LIMERICK_END> | 32,702 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'want egg'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You want something for nothing? Oh dear,
Your attitude's so cavalier.
You're just sitting here smirking —
You should be out working.
I guess you want egg in your beer. <LIMERICK_END> | 48,054 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hercules stand'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The Pillars of Hercules stand
On Europe's and Africa's land.
They are Abila's peak,
Of which ancients did speak,
And Gibraltar, a Rock that is grand. <LIMERICK_END> | 699 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'botanist steve'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The barnstorming botanist, Steve,
Grew an orchid: the Adam and Eve.
Reddish-pink on the spectrum,
It's called an aplectrum,
Which means "without spur," I believe. <LIMERICK_END> | 1,114 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'child lest'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Heed me, daughterkin: cleave not to boys,
They'll discard you like yesterday's toys.
Be not tempted, my child,
Lest your soul be defiled.
Wait some years amidst innocent joys. <LIMERICK_END> | 56,670 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bridesmaids'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I'm reviewing my friend's latest list,
And the bridesmaids she's chosen consist
Of pals Claire, Mare, and Cher.
I'm not there. Should I care?
I insist I was missed, and I'm pissed! <LIMERICK_... | 20,716 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fascist italy'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> This evil alliance began
With Germany's Aryan plan.
Fascist Italy joined
And "the Axis" was coined.
Added last? Hirohito's Japan. <LIMERICK_END> | 14,851 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'taft'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> That player of baseball, Ty Cobb,
Was esteemed and adored by the mob.
Said President Taft,
Who admired his craft,
"Ty, you're doing a heck of a job!" <LIMERICK_END> | 18,858 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'verse interrupted'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As I write this (hang on, just a mo)
Little verse (interrupted, you know!),
Discontinu (what?) ation
Breaks up my narration
That's (otherwise) ready to go. <LIMERICK_END> | 35,664 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blackberry ease'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Some claim BlackBerry's ease and cachet
Made it flavor of the month in its day.
But its platform, once gold,
Would quite quickly grow old,
Overwhelmed by the Apple bouquet. <LIMERICK_END> | 56,079 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cream pie'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> SPLAT! I got creamed by cream pie!
So I cry, wiping eye, "Tell me why!"
"You were gazing with lust
At my girl's heaving bust!"
Better pie, than a punch, in the eye. <LIMERICK_END> | 65,126 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'goat cheese'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Daphne's Aged Goat Cheese Nick promotes,
And in every commercial he notes
That this cheese is the best,
And you need not be stressed:
"It is not made of milk from old goats!" <LIMERICK_END> | 59,180 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'neighbourhood mogs'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Through November's unpleasant wet fogs
I heard one of the neighbourhood mogs
Go miaow from a tree,
And this sounded to me
Just like cat-talk for "call off the dogs". <LIMERICK_END> | 24,679 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'weighed'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> All those diets! We prayed and we weighed,
And we paid every time that we strayed.
Sent our clothes to Goodwill,
Now we'll run up a bill —
It's the charge of the lighter brigade. <LIMERICK_END> | 30,347 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hue cyanometer'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Am I blue? Am I blue? Ain't these tears
In my eyes tellin' you?" It appears
Yes indeed, that's your hue.
Cyanometer: True!
(So's your mood, as you're stewed on ten beers.) <LIMERICK_END> | 31,894 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'distriction sudden'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A distriction's a sudden display
Of a flash or a glitter and may,
Like a bright signal flare,
Light the night sky up where
Those below can quite clearly survey. <LIMERICK_END> | 33,145 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tempo'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "The music is getting too slow,
So it's back to the old speed we go."
If a tempo is written
By Beethoven, Britten,
Or Brahms, you'll change pace like a pro. <LIMERICK_END> | 2,279 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'buffalo horns'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The cape buffalo's horns are quite wide:
He's eurycerous. Horns are his pride.
I won't leave it unsaid
That the breadth of his head
Is misleading. There's not much inside. <LIMERICK_END> | 51,180 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'futz'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My dad often calls me a futz
(That's a fool). It's a usage that cuts.
He says reasons abound;
That I just futz around,
I'm an idler as well as a klutz. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,283 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'credit instead'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If I purchase a thing I've admired,
Handing over more cash than required,
The excess is my change,
Which I take—or arrange
To have credit instead, if desired. <LIMERICK_END> | 16,187 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'killer whitey'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Southie gangland boss, once high and mighty,
Who had fled from the Feds, Killer Whitey
Has been captured at last
(Cynics scoff, "Not too fast...")
At the crib where his moll hung her nighti... | 50,133 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'charon'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Said the boatman, "It's no idle boast;
On my boat I'll be kind to your ghost.
For two obols a ride,
O'er the Styx we will glide.
You'll agree, I'm more Charon than most!" <LIMERICK_END> | 15,703 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cream pie'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My Boston cream pie is the best.
Two yellow cake layers are dressed
In dark chocolate above,
Filled with custard you love—
And the calorie count on request. <LIMERICK_END> | 15,208 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grandma'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "I must break Grandma's will," Harry said.
"I don't follow. Your grandmother's dead,"
Replied Pete. "No, her will.
I've inherited nil.
There's an ugly court battle ahead." <LIMERICK_END> | 44,404 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ferro lacking'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Ferro-'s lacking electrons (a pair);
Merry ferri- has less. "I declare,
You've lost two. As for me,
I'm more positive: three!"
And i(r)onically speaking, that's fair. <LIMERICK_END> | 53,756 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'good hearted'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Will's good-hearted, he's genial, kind,
And he's generous, always inclined
To show sympathy when
I feel sad now and then.
Such a boyfriend you don't often find. <LIMERICK_END> | 65,406 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'garments destroyed'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A maker of woolens named Roth
Found his garments destroyed by a moth.
It had chewed through each smock,
Dress, and coat in his stock,
Thus defrocking this man of the cloth. <LIMERICK_E... | 23,069 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'air mattress'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "An air mattress, surely," said Kate,
"Is a must when you're out on a date.
But it takes lots of huffing
And plenty of puffing
To make it completely inflate." <LIMERICK_END> | 3,210 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dog'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My dog is not pretty to see.
His legs are curved out at the knee.
Though bowlegged and old,
He'll never be sold,
Because he is so dear to me. <LIMERICK_END> | 6,129 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disturbance'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A disturbance can range from a riot
To digestion distressed from a diet,
To a picketer's walk,
Or what's merely loud talk
In a library muted and quiet. <LIMERICK_END> | 33,499 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'androgenetic conception'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> An androgenetic conception
Is fatally flawed from inception.
It's forced to begin
With no yang for its yin,
A decidedly tragic exception. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,843 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'natives'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Where the natives were "Indian red,"
Edward Cope, paleontologist, said,
"I'm a Quaker—no guns!"
Though he once saved his buns
By removing his teeth from his head. <LIMERICK_END> | 56,385 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'games children'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> They're eliminative are these games:
Children's musical chairs, and such names
As musical bumps
Or statues; the chumps
Forced to quit feel the lamest of lames. <LIMERICK_END> | 44,614 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mountain goat'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "What's a mountain goat doing up there —
On a cloud bank, so high in thin air?
As I pilot my plane
I just ask once again ..."
("Omigod!" was the pilot's last prayer.) <LIMERICK_END> | 22,909 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fangs'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The long pointed teeth of this snake
Are its fangs. Keep away for the sake
Of your health. It's been claimed
Just one bite leaves you maimed,
So take care with each move that you make. <LIMERICK_E... | 47,871 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'straining bowls'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Something cribrose traps solid debris,
But the liquid's not caught; it is free
To be sieved through small holes.
I own two straining bowls
That are cribrose to filter my tea. <LIMERICK_EN... | 40,229 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wearing sandals'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> There's a wind blowing; just avoid scandals.
Watch the weathermen out wearing sandals.
Modern angst, then we're dead.
As Bob Zimmerman said:
All the vandals have taken the handles. <LIMER... | 8,931 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wedding photographer'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Said the wedding photographer, smugly,
"The couple looked great sitting snugly.
All that 'Two becomes one'
Was artistically done.
It's a shame that the groom was so ugly." <LIMERICK_... | 42,925 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'midnight excursions'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My grandson gives differing versions
Of the aim of his midnight excursions:
"To help a sick buddy."
"To get schoolbooks to study
The wars of the Greeks against Persians." <LIMERICK_EN... | 36,274 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'run aground'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As you pilot your schooner around,
From below comes a loud scraping sound,
And you yell, "What the heck?"
As you're pitched 'cross the deck—
Well, it's just that your ship's run aground. <LIM... | 3,391 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'equus ferus'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Equus ferus caballus: the horse
As we made it. The strain may be Norse,
Asian, African, Brit
Or wherever. We fit
Any breed to meet our needs, of course. <LIMERICK_END> | 60,503 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blue jeans'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "I'll only buy brand-name blue jeans,"
Sniffed a trend-conscious lady in Queens.
"They'll impress all my friends—
Prove my worth to great ends—
With the ends just defying the means." <LIMERICK... | 9,014 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'plastic surgery'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Plastic surgery," nurses all said,
When I woke in a hospital bed.
Though still groggy and dazed,
I was startled, amazed.
God be praised! I had feared I was dead. <LIMERICK_END> | 45,872 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'body politic'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Body politic seems to apply
To us organized folks who rely
On those cunning and cool
Politicians to rule.
But we're no body's fool, you and I. <LIMERICK_END> | 14,200 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'word dowz'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Need a well dug behind your new house?
Well, my father finds water. He'll dowse.
"Please pronounce the word DOWZ,"
You'll hear Mother espouse.
Dad's next line: "Pay no mind to my spouse!" <LIME... | 42,252 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cornetist'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A cornetist at Carnegie Hall
Blows a note—it's the loudest of all.
His vigor and verve
Show intestinal nerve
By bespeaking a clarion gall. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,137 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'berlin'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I'm a traveling guy, and I've been
To Chicago, Madrid and Berlin.
The most far, farmost place, though,
Would be outer space, so
To go there, I'd better begin. <LIMERICK_END> | 49,754 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'answers'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> While he answers my questions evasively,
His guilt fills my nostrils abrasively.
Avoiding the point
Puts my nose out of joint;
I'll ask them again, more persuasively. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,358 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'burping free'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> From all heartburn and burping I'm free;
My digestion is perfect, you see.
When I say, for first course
I could eat a damn horse,
That's eupepsia talking, not me! <LIMERICK_END> | 50,035 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'undercooked onions'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Those undercooked onions," he roared,
"Underscored how I truly deplored
Both my meal and my wine!"
Though his lodging was fine,
He abhorred, with a passion, his board. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,671 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'word doby'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The word doby is one that's aphetic
As it's lost its first letter (phonetic).
And its meaning today
Is a kind of dried clay,
Or a dwelling—quite often pathetic. <LIMERICK_END> | 40,640 |
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