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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'creatinemia'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A buff burly boy from Bohemia
Heeded gym rats, and not academia.
"Sucking supplements down,"
Said his doc with a frown,
"Is the cause of your creatinemia." <LIMERICK_END> | 33,493 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'called bullbaiting'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It's called bullbaiting, labelled as "sport,"
But a brutish and barbarous sort.
Chain a bull in a pen,
Set some dogs on it; then
What comes next is too vile to report. <LIMERICK_END> | 16,079 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pickled herring'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> All this fine pickled herring we're sharing
Is evidence, friend, we're uncaring,
So perhaps we should quit;
Every bite leaves a brit
As the orphan of one of those herring. <LIMERICK_END> | 21,835 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acrotism'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Acrotism's a problem to dread,
'Cause you rather resemble the dead.
Your beat's hard to find
In a flaw of this kind,
And your life likely hangs by a thread. <LIMERICK_END> | 5,321 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coveted canonization'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> With the enemy's full capitulation
Came the following clarification:
The Army's commander
Refuted the slander
That he coveted canonization. <LIMERICK_END> | 23,378 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cut'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Her devotion was never in doubt,
Till he cheated, was mucking about.
Retribution was swift
When she cut him adrift:
Cut him loose, cut him off—turned him out. <LIMERICK_END> | 40,571 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cloud nine'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Space in! Hey, wake up! See the light!
On cloud nine you cannot spend the night.
Book a flight, take a plane
To re-enter your brain,
And please text when you're earthbound, alright? <LIMERICK_... | 42,472 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shakespeare hamlet'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In the great Shakespeare's Hamlet we see
Just how violent court life can be:
A compendium, straight,
Of the dangers of state;
That's the fate that awaits such as me! <LIMERICK_END> | 27,831 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lumberyard'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> We must guard the equipment we use
In this lumberyard. Right now the crews
Are installing protection.
You should have no objection:
In a fight with a buzzsaw, you lose. <LIMERICK_END> | 64,874 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'collar crime'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Stopping white-collar crime was the thing
For the cops when they set up this sting.
So the perp they arrest
Wears a suit and a vest.
Yes, a button-down collar adds zing! <LIMERICK_END> | 11,015 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'diet tried'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> 'Twas the first day to diet. I tried
Filching one tiny cookie. I cried.
The cellophane sheet
Lets me peek at the treat
But keeps moisture and me from inside. <LIMERICK_END> | 13,571 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dad boots'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Dad's boots need a clean. He'll confess
They were left in a heck of a mess.
Now one's had a good scrubbin'
And rubbin' with dubbin—
"I'm done! Here's the other one, Bess." <LIMERICK_END> | 39,970 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coast'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As you value my counsel the most,
I'd advise you to head for the coast.
If we stay here instead,
I'll be losing my head,
And your heinie, Your Highness, is toast! <LIMERICK_END> | 12,725 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'elderberries'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The Elderberries: geezers with wit,
Though the jokes can be corny, a bit.
With their lives almost done,
They have all of the fun
That the staff at their home will permit. <LIMERICK_END> | 55,132 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'libretto'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It's an evening of opera—my choice,
For productions, but, oh, for the voice.
The libretto—the book—
Rarely grabs me. My hook
Is the music. In that I rejoice. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,341 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acetaldehyde'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Some chemicals kill by the gram,
But they're rare, I declare, where I am.
Acetaldehyde, though,
Is a compound I know.
It's a liquor derivative—damn! <LIMERICK_END> | 679 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'twelve cheeses'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> We've twelve cheeses, five hams and much more.
We have flavoursome fillings galore.
We have eight kinds of bread,
But all you want instead
Is a BLT sandwich, you bore. <LIMERICK_END> | 9,294 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'defiance'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> We are foes of the current regime;
Our defiance has reached an extreme.
The Prime Minister's hated;
His baseness created
The public's extreme disesteem. <LIMERICK_END> | 35,460 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'divorce'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Tiger Woods with the ladies did tarry,
So he and his wife may dismarry.
Yes, a juicy divorce
Will be par for the course:
It's a burden his caddy can't carry. <LIMERICK_END> | 34,127 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'classical sucks'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Your CD collection's a joke,
And classical sucks," yelled the bloke.
My discs couldn't handle
This rampaging vandal:
Now all of my Bach sets are broke. <LIMERICK_END> | 15,257 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'debt would'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Would you stand by your man with a gun?
Are you true or just in it for fun?
Would you pay off his debt?
Would you aid and abet?
Just how deep does your loyalty run? <LIMERICK_END> | 31,975 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'paint'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You paint with a sweeping broad brush
And miss details. You seem in a rush
To ignore variations.
Your warped expectations
Are thereby confirmed at first blush. <LIMERICK_END> | 55,887 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'daylong fight'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> All my kids run about, and they shout.
Try correcting? They whimper and pout.
So from morning till night
It's a daylong fight—quite—
An encounter, day in and day out. <LIMERICK_END> | 30,068 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'curly brackets'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Curly brackets are sometimes called braces,
And are used in a number of cases:
For linking two paths;
To mark sets, if it's maths,
Or add feelings in cute smiley faces. <LIMERICK_END> | 32,798 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shock'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It was over by seven o'clock.
We survived, with some help from our doc.
"You're all medically clear,
So rejoice with good cheer.
There's not one decompression-type shock!" <LIMERICK_END> | 31,951 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'economy jobs'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Gig economy jobs like I've got
Are a real anti-working man plot.
See, my cab driver neighbor
Gets paid for his labor,
Plus benefits! Me? I do not. <LIMERICK_END> | 59,631 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hide camera'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In my mobile they've managed to hide
A camera, designed to provide,
During each conversation,
A representation
Of what my ear looks like inside. <LIMERICK_END> | 12,451 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'keggers'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> At a beer blast, among all the schmoozers,
Were some guys drinking whiskey what losers!
So I said, "Chug some beer!
Or you're out on your rear;
For at keggers, there cannot be boozers." <LIMERICK... | 16,391 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'accumulation units'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Accumulation units a must
To help maximise growth in your trust,
For direct reinvesting
Saves charges, so besting
Distributed income, I've sussed. <LIMERICK_END> | 26,024 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gary works'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Our Gary works hard he's a grafter.
Job's demanding, although filled with laughter:
Comic-acting each day
And each night in some play.
He won't stop, even in the hereafter. <LIMERICK_END> | 64,478 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gingerbread man'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In our story, the gingerbread man,
A person-shaped biscuit, began
As a substitute child
Who broke free and ran wild.
(Just suspend disbelief, if you can.) <LIMERICK_END> | 58,101 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cytomorphosis'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> With regard to the life of a cell:
By its cytomorphosis we tell
How it's changed and it's grown.
All the stages are known
From its birth to its final farewell. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,187 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abbreviate'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Use the letters called a, m and b
To abbreviate, as you can see
In amb(assador), or
As a prefix before
Your own -ition, from -iguity free. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,483 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'resin'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As shellac it keeps woodwork so bright;
As a pie glaze it's airy and light.
Now Ms. Radner's floor shines,
While Dan "Acaroid" dines
On new Shimmer, the resin that's right. <LIMERICK_END> | 56,727 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'picture dove'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> For your birthday, I picture a dove
Taking aim as it hovers above.
Then it drops, where you live,
What I'd most like to give,
And by bucketsful (bucketfuls?)—love! <LIMERICK_END> | 17,193 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mineral allochromatic'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> What he found in his grandmother's attic
Was a mineral allochromatic.
Its impurities made
It a lovely green shade,
But the size was what made him ecstatic. <LIMERICK_END> | 1,962 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'considered book'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Wrote on paper (the butler's the crook),
Then collected the sheets, and I took
Up a needle and thread
And I bound them. Once read,
I can say it's considered a book. <LIMERICK_END> | 10,964 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'germinate fire'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though some never see them revive,
After blazes, the burn species thrive.
To germinate, fire
Is what they require;
When they bloom, the burnt hills come alive. <LIMERICK_END> | 18,618 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bibliobibuli read'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The bibliobibuli read
With such gusto, attention, and speed
That they're way out of touch
With the world—knowing much
About stuff that they don't really need. <LIMERICK_END> | 12,700 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disaffiliate billy'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Disaffiliate, Billy, detach
From that gang that the cops soon will catch.
They'll be hauled into court,
And the press will report
They've been sentenced and jailed with dispatch. <LIME... | 38,148 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thin'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I have always aspired to be thin,
But there's cellulite under my skin.
"Excise it," I'm urgin'
My new plastic surgeon.
He sighs, "Dunno where to begin!" <LIMERICK_END> | 16,781 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pope shouted'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> How'd the war against simony go?
First the "No!" became, "Well, take it slow."
Then the world's youngest pope
Shouted out, "I'm no dope!
Want the Vatican? Show me the dough!" <LIMERICK_END> | 20,419 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bicarbonate'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> One bicarbonate more than the rest —
That of calcium makes me protest.
It turns soft water hard
So your lather is marred,
And the limescale it leaves is a pest. <LIMERICK_END> | 14,658 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sad outcomes'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> To sad outcomes I'm often resigned.
(The blown mind in room 9 comes to mind.)
When you're shot in the head
And just this side of dead,
Adios you can kiss your behind. <LIMERICK_END> | 57,109 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disgestion defined'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Disgestion's defined as "digestion,"
Which is prompting the obvious question:
What's that little "s" lending
The process extending
From swallowing on to egestion? <LIMERICK_END> | 40,008 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thermometer mercury'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As I watch what the scale now advises,
My thermometer's mercury rises.
Each gradation that's passed
Shows the warmth that's amassed
Means my beach party's sure to win prizes. <LIMERIC... | 62,897 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nose orion'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In the heavens the Greater Dog rose,
With his Sirius star of a nose.
Orion might wager
His hound, Canis Major,
Tracks Lepus wherever he goes. <LIMERICK_END> | 10,135 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boychick'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A boychick is not what you think—
Say, a kid who wears both blue and pink.
He's a boy and that's all,
'Cause the suffix means "small"
(From the Yiddish for -y after dink). <LIMERICK_END> | 11,574 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aberrant goiter'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The thyroid's a wonderful gland,
But watch out if it starts to expand.
With an aberrant goiter,
See a doc, do not loiter.
(Hope the bill isn't more than you planned.) <LIMERICK_END> | 5,457 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eyed tigers'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> One-eyed tigers that list to the right,
Caught on fire find themselves in a plight:
It is hard to be cheerful
With asymmetries fearful
When one burns in the forests of night. <LIMERICK_END> | 1,411 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ballot'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though we vote with a puncture or scrawl,
Long ago, we inserted a ball.
A limited palette
Belonged to this ballot:
One black, and one white: that was all. <LIMERICK_END> | 2,908 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'charmer'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In love, she yearns so to attach
To a charmer she thinks is a catch.
Stuck to him she would be
But attachment's not free;
He's a con man and not a good match. <LIMERICK_END> | 1,895 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'asexual mating'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Asexual mating is not
Very typically thought of as hot.
But in vitro? Folks do
Lust for no-thrills sex, too:
The infertile who want kids a lot. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,488 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blended hues'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though my brush strokes were carefully gentle,
The critics were harshly judgemental.
On the subject, they found
Blended hues from the ground,
So the colors were all accidental. <LIMERICK_END... | 5,825 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bladed chisels'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Some curve-bladed chisels are good
For grooving or holing flat wood.
That gouge carves out bone,
And a surgeon alone
Should be banging it, not some damn hood. <LIMERICK_END> | 62,223 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'old floors'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though it's falling apart at the seams,
This could well be the house of our dreams:
A new roof, walls and doors,
And restore the old floors ...
Oh, my head is so full of fine schemes. <LIMERIC... | 53,241 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'old coot'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Your pa is a crusty old coot,"
Whispered Ma. "He's just being a poot!"
"I am not, you old hen!"
Shouted Pa from the den.
Though he's eighty, his hearing's acute. <LIMERICK_END> | 24,008 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blitzed'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Totally blitzed, we're wiped out; nothin's left
Of our home and our stuff. The whole weft
And the warp of our life
Is gone missin'. Mah wife
And the kids ah all right, but bereft. <LIMERICK_END> | 12,159 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bambino'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Bambino is "babe" in Italian.
In a creche or religious medallion
It's the Christ child; in truth,
Fans referred to Babe Ruth
As Bambino (but thought him a stallion). <LIMERICK_END> | 6,404 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dumb mutt'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> On a walk in the park some dumb mutt
Once attacked me head on yes, full-butt.
My right knee and I, irked,
Then reflexively jerked.
Now that canine gets by with one nut. <LIMERICK_END> | 60,369 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'piston crowns'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If exhaust valves and piston crowns too
Need the carbon removed from them, you
Should decarburise now
As above and then – Wow!
Your car's engine's vroom-vroom you'll renew! <LIMERICK_END> | 62,830 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dry shampoo'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You have gross, oily hair! What to do
If a bath's not an option for you?
Got no water? No fear,
Use this powder to clear
The high-gloss—just apply dry shampoo. <LIMERICK_END> | 42,232 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'licence suspended'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My licence suspended, I'm reeling,
So stunned that I feel like appealing.
Too fast on the freeway,
Found guilty, no leeway.
Discombobulated—not a nice feeling! <LIMERICK_END> | 42,525 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tommy cooper'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> He wore a red fez. What a hat!
His routines were so perfect and pat.
With his quips fast and strong
And his tricks (that went wrong):
Tommy Cooper, a star, "Jus' like that!" <LIMERICK_END> | 21,843 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'therapist sid'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Of my therapist, Sid's a big critic.
He complains that the guy's parasitic,
But my view's panoramic
Of the psychodynamic;
As a method, I choose analytic. <LIMERICK_END> | 47,069 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fishes called'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Have you heard of the fishes called dace?
They dart all about as they race!
There are various types—
Some kinds even have stripes—
And you'll find them in freshwater space. <LIMERICK_END> | 27,373 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'today meds'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Did I take today's meds? I forget.
Better check my dosette box. No sweat;
Every pill's on display
In the box, day by day.
Hip hooray for my dandy dosette! <LIMERICK_END> | 56,198 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'scottish lads'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Scottish lads are well known to be clannish,
But their kilts seem a trifle unmannish.
Pardon me if I stare
Midst the deafening blare
Of the pipes. (Or perhaps I'll just vanish!) <LIMERICK_E... | 19,077 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'enjoyed vernacular'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Mr. Bentham enjoyed a vernacular
("I'm taking my antejentacular
Circumgyrations")
With linguistic creations
Of pomposity truly spectacular. <LIMERICK_END> | 11,827 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lies'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> So transparent and bald-faced, she lies,
And her blatant dishonesty cries
To high heaven for righting.
Every friendship she's blighting—
Telling whoppers, she sure takes the prize. <LIMERICK_END> | 20,483 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gizmo'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Tomorrow's our break-even day;
A quick margin calc showed me the way.
With each gizmo we sell,
Some fixed cost we dispel —
Now we'll start to do well! Hip hooray! <LIMERICK_END> | 55,972 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'optometrist drops'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My optometrist's drops opened wide
My eyes' pupils; revealed what's inside.
With them dilated thus,
I am taking the bus
On advice my nice doctor supplied. <LIMERICK_END> | 35,586 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blue cleats'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> On the pitch, every player competes,
Yet we'd suffered a string of defeats.
Then an off-the-wall claim
Said our boots were to blame,
So we all bought expensive blue cleats. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,635 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'drinks porter'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My husband, a Chelsea supporter,
Drinks porter; his glasses are shorter
Than pints by a half.
When he orders, I laugh—
"Black and tan (add some ale—just a quarter)!" <LIMERICK_END> | 5,688 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'artichoke'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> An artichoke is a big thistle;
Its thorns would no doubt make some bristle.
When one bites off the leaves
'Less they're trimmed, one receives
A nasty scratch right in one's whistle. <LIMERICK_E... | 289 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'emissary vein'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> To define the term emissary vein,
Trace the blood as it exits the brain.
From the sinus it flows;
Through the skull it then goes.
That's the way that our brains really drain. <LIMERICK_END> | 50,851 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'water cnidarians'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Through the water cnidarians wend
Using organelles—arms that extend
From their mouths, in a ring,
And deliver a sting.
What is safe? Their abactinal end! <LIMERICK_END> | 7,905 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alternative worse'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "How I wish I could head in reverse.
No more birthdays. My pains are a curse."
"As we age, we all ache.
We're not dead, for Christ's sake!
Most agree: that alternative's worse." <LIMER... | 52,604 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'skated'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The figure skater skated while drunk,
So his tracings on ice truly stunk.
He'd figured he skated
Quite well, but belated-
ly said, much deflated, "They're junk." <LIMERICK_END> | 55,527 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'quaff'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> This punch for our post-game libation
Tastes to me like a weak imitation
Of a footballer's drink.
Add some vodka! I think
That the quaff needs some fortification. <LIMERICK_END> | 55,787 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fleetwoods came'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The Fleetwoods came softly in song.
Though their voices were not at all strong,
These two girls and a guy,
In one year, sure flew high
As two number one hits came along. <LIMERICK_END> | 53,321 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'every burg'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I'm taking a countywide tour,
Going village to town till I'm sure
That I've been in them all
And can quickly recall
Every burg—both renowned and obscure. <LIMERICK_END> | 23,542 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dervish'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If a dervis (or dervish) should whirl,
His white garments stand out in a swirl.
He may point with his hand
To the sky or the land,
But the faith of this monk won't unfurl. <LIMERICK_END> | 32,877 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wedlock'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My libido I've kept in a headlock:
With my celibate vow there was deadlock.
But it's getting much harder
To stifle my ardour
Since finding I'd just forsworn wedlock. <LIMERICK_END> | 20,352 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'patronage'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Often patronage opened the door
That clientage couldn't ignore.
This "for-life" compensation
(A class obligation)
Would further careers and much more. <LIMERICK_END> | 37,216 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'batteries dry'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The elves at the North Pole colluded
To make many kids feel deluded
When they opened a toy.
Yes, it lessened their joy
To read, "Batteries (dry) not included." <LIMERICK_END> | 39,396 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dart thrower'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It's a weapon, this sling-like device.
When it's used with an aim that's precise,
It will launch a sharp dart
That can puncture the heart.
No, a dart thrower's not very nice. <LIMERICK_END> | 38,120 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dishonor deserved'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> No dishonor's deserved, no disgrace
In that tenderness worn on your face.
Too many are burned
By a love unreturned,
Though in this instance, that's not the case. <LIMERICK_END> | 49,127 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'veh lope'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "I'm pedantic and feel it's my duty
To say AHN-veh-lope. (Some call me snooty.)"
"I instead recommend
You say EN-veh-lope, friend,
Since the former sounds French and too fruity." <LIMERICK_END> | 57,405 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bread'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though we now buy these things from the store,
Bread and milk were once brought to our door.
Like so much from my past,
This was too good to last.
The deliveryman visits no more. <LIMERICK_END> | 29,497 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'duns scotus'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> John Duns Scotus: the man was no fool.
This philosopher founded a school.
It was classed 'second-rate'
By his rivals; the fate
Of his students? Called dunces (not cool). <LIMERICK_END> | 43,387 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'older guns'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As fledglings, we rookies were new
To the scene, and we hadn't a clue
How a company runs.
The entrenched older guns
Shot us down. In six months, we were through. <LIMERICK_END> | 53,872 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'altruistic'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I've decided it truly suits me
To be most altruistic. I'm free
In the way I take pleasure
From giving at leisure.
I'm thus hedonistic too, see? <LIMERICK_END> | 53,337 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'butterfly pea'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> This large-flowered vine is quite new;
Its name's quite a funny one, too,
As I'm sure you'll agree.
It is: butterfly pea.
(And those dots are p'rhaps butterfly poo.) <LIMERICK_END> | 30,555 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'appetite'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> He used to appear so vivacious—
And his appetite? Always voracious!
But he's lovesick with passion;
He's skinny and ashen—
So drawn and so gray—cineraceous. <LIMERICK_END> | 18,264 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alley cat'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> An alley cat hasn't a home.
He's unloved like some worn garden gnome.
Poor thing, he's a stray,
Doomed to spend every day
Left all on his own just to roam. <LIMERICK_END> | 1,625 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'guide charged'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Well, our guide charged ahead, like a sarge,
As vindictive as Madame De Farge.
And the trip wasn't cheap;
Daily charges were steep.
Why the hell did they put him in charge? <LIMERICK_END> | 17,227 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yarn'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Look, 'potatoes' (oh darn!) in my hose.
They need darning to patch heels and toes.
They're expensive to darn,
And I can't find the yarn.
I'll have to buy new, I suppose. <LIMERICK_END> | 34,632 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'greek shield'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A Greek shield, these days, seems egregious,
But not so the word for it: aegis.
Metaphoric connection
Suggests the protection
Of someone or something prestigious. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,269 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'commences'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> While they're necking (a passionate sesh),
She commences to thrash and to thresh.
When she bares her pale throat
(Which we note floats his boat),
The Count sinks his fangs into her flesh. <LIME... | 51,807 |
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