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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'allicin burns'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In garlic, the allicin burns.
I munch and I ponder by turns
How my sensors for heat
Are invoked by this treat,
And how vampires' advances it spurns. <LIMERICK_END> | 5,887 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'uniform'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Faded photos—my father looks proud
In his uniform: later his shroud.
How he loved Army life,
But he died in the strife
Of the battle—just one of a crowd. <LIMERICK_END> | 13,484 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bringing downward'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It's a word that denotes depravation,
Bringing downward, with ego deflation.
I speak of embasement:
Descending displacement
To reach an inferior station. <LIMERICK_END> | 44,195 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bigotry'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In democracies we get to choose,
So all bigotry we should refuse
Aimed at color of skin,
Or religion, as in
Anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,496 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'husband neurosis'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I suppose that my husband's neurosis
Gives our marriage a doubtful prognosis.
Since he won't take the pills
Doc prescribed for his ills,
We will quickly approach cagamosis. <LIMERICK_END... | 20,062 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glibness'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Your glibness is causing my blues;
Your "witty" remarks don't amuse.
Your tongue is too flip,
So button your lip!
Yeah, shut it I'm sick of your views. <LIMERICK_END> | 8,242 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'moody carla'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Moody Carla, my lover, is vain."
That's a phrase I had better explain—
There's a chronogram there,
So please study with care.
Want the year of my birth? Use your brain! <LIMERICK_END> | 18,216 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cells antiblastic'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If the air has been spreading disease,
The guy who will not even wheeze
Will be Mr. Elastic.
With cells antiblastic,
He needn't pay doctors' high fees. <LIMERICK_END> | 16,178 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mystique paths'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Stroll our garden; enjoy the mystique—
Paths with Belgian-block paving, tres chic.
Each rectangular stone,
Settled in, overgrown,
Oddly cozy with age… and unique. <LIMERICK_END> | 50,907 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cardiopulmonary surgeon'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> He's a miser, and thinks I am splurgin',
But I keep up the pressure. I'm urgin'
That he go to the best
For the mass in his chest.
That's a cardiopulmonary surgeon. <LIMERICK_END> | 16,613 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'old grump'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Of course I'm a bitter old grump.
And why? I was played for a chump.
On the day we were wed,
"I'll stay skinny!" you said.
Now you're all fattened up tubby-plump. <LIMERICK_END> | 49,368 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'small ship'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In the Coast Guard, he served on a cutter,
And complained that its engine would sputter.
"She's a small ship, but armed.
I'm alarmed; we'd be harmed
Should an accident happen," he'd mutter. <L... | 30,042 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'actiniaria captures'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Actiniaria captures it's prey,
Luring all to its "floral" display.
Stung by tentacles, fish
May subconsciously wish
They'd been smarter, and stayed well away. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,594 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'appalled camping'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A purist would sneer, "That's not camping!"
I agree. It's what's now known as glamping.
"Glamor camping," it's called.
I, for one, am appalled.
Camping's suffered an ugly revamping. <LIM... | 61,881 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sixty carbons'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In a buckminsterfullerene ball
You can find sixty carbons in all.
A buckyball locker
For nanotech soccer
Might strike us as shockingly small. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,104 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nickname'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Our son's an adorable boy.
But what nickname to use to employ?
See, Sebastian's his name;
But for "Sebs" we're not game —
Nor "Sebast". Our first choice? "Pride 'n' Joy"! <LIMERICK_END> | 65,646 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'epideictic collective'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Epideictic collective display:
In some birds their conventional way
Of declaring… who knows?
Still, we learn from the shows
That the species can stage a ballet. <LIMERICK_END> | 57,089 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'byzantinist studies'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A Byzantinist studies the past
Of an empire doomed not to last.
His quest for the story
Of Byzantine glory
Brings tales of great riches amassed. <LIMERICK_END> | 9,051 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'antidotal means'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Antidotal means made to oppose
Any toxin that Medicine knows,
Till its poison abates.
Anecdotal relates
To a story recited in prose. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,547 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glad auditioned'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I'm so perfect; be glad I auditioned.
As a speaker, I'm well dispositioned:
First-rate diction, good form,
And my temperament's warm;
I'm a fit, so let's get me commissioned. <LIMERICK_EN... | 45,302 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'needy cy'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In Tehran, needy Cy found a way
To get cash, save a life, the same day.
On his flank, there's a scar,
And he drives a new car.
Sell a kidney: win-win, some would say. <LIMERICK_END> | 51,737 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is '1b means'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "The letters GK," Coach was saying,
"The goalkeeper's post are conveying.
Then 1B means 'first base'
And the A stands for 'ace'."
(Fine, but what the hell sport are we playing?) <LIMERICK_END> | 60,768 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acne detergicans'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You've got acne detergicans, sport.
First you started with some other sort,
Then with treatment too rough,
Well, enough is enough!
All that scrubbing you need to abort. <LIMERICK_END> | 15,758 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bramble hedges'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The gatekeeper (also hedge brown)
Doesn't sit at a tollgate in town,
But round dense bramble hedges
And green woodland edges
This butterfly bobs up and down. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,617 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'receptacles receive'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In outlets, the current flows out.
But receptacles receive not in doubt.
My semantical gripe?
The electrical type
Seems a lie; how did that come about? <LIMERICK_END> | 57,520 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flippant'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Don't be flippant, son; that I won't stand,
And I'll show you the back of my hand.
Stop the jokes; show respect,
Or I'll see you decked,
And flat on your backside you'll land. <LIMERICK_END> | 52,279 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bottom foundation'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When considering basics, I start
From the bottom. Foundation's the heart
Of the matter. The trick
Is to not lay one brick
Till you check with the specs on your chart. <LIMERICK_END> | 28,487 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'zinc joe'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Joe's food supplements add what is missing
From his diet. His wife, though, keeps dissing
Added iron or zinc:
"Joe, those minerals stink!
If you don't drop those pills I'll stop kissing." <LIMER... | 60,111 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'edith cavell'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Edith Cavell was guilty, it's true.
She'd helped hundreds of soldiers get through
And escape from the Hun
To survive World War One.
Then in death, she helped England anew. <LIMERICK_END> | 13,160 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kathy caffeinated'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though she takes neither coffee nor tea,
Kathy's caffeinated, perky and free.
Would you tame her? Beware.
She's got spirit to spare.
Lock her up, man… then give me the key. <LIMERICK_EN... | 56,135 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hypertension stop'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If your blood pressure meter is vaulting,
There's a risk of your arteries faulting.
On the road to prevention
Of much hypertension:
Stop frying, and smoking, and salting. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,852 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alone'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> It's no fun to be stuck on your own,
With no company, left all alone.
But it's not always woe;
Some would rather it so,
Like a beagle pup guarding her bone. <LIMERICK_END> | 24,625 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cuban trogons'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Cuban trogons have reason to brag:
"We're the national bird," says one wag.
"Our feathers are blue;
Some are red or white too,
Just the same as our national flag." <LIMERICK_END> | 60,700 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dumbfounded moe'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Ambiguity dumbfounded Moe
As he gazed upon nude Curly Joe.
Had he not known his pal
Was a guy, not a gal,
He'd be forced to say, "Hell, I don't know!" <LIMERICK_END> | 63,252 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'leave ama'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If the folks at the hospital say
Not to leave, but you leave AMA,
That's against their advice,
And you may pay the price
Being worse off, so next time just stay. <LIMERICK_END> | 48,108 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'surgeon excise'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> For obesity, Guy wins the prize.
"Can a surgeon excise, from his thighs
And his gut, excess fat?"
I inquire. "And would that
Mean he'd no longer wear an X-size? <LIMERICK_END> | 44,991 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aaron'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> For Aaronic we've Aaron to thank
'Cause without him, the word's just a blank.
All the lexicons tout
It as Aaron-about.
(Moses' brother, not Hammerin' Hank.) <LIMERICK_END> | 7,885 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crisp biscotti'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Crisp biscotti are such a delight;
You'll agree after only one bite.
Anise-flavored's the best,
Or there's lemon for zest.
The Italians do cookies just right. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,828 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'political creeps'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Political creeps creep me out.
On hearing a certain one spout,
I get nervous, afraid,
Overwrought and dismayed;
And I've prayed for a ballot box rout. <LIMERICK_END> | 59,645 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'castle defenders'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Early castle defenders were fond
Of their walkway or chemin de ronde.
From there they repelled,
Or if need be expelled,
Their marauding opponents beyond. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,837 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'holds roses'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> At the photocall, everyone poses
Close behind the fine bride, who holds roses
And the hand of her groom.
But there's not enough room —
In the foreground (in front): two blurred noses! <LIMERI... | 52,566 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bloviators'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Bloviators—you've met them, for sure—
Are those folks we, at times, must endure.
They won't leave us in peace,
For their words never cease.
How I wish their disease had a cure! <LIMERICK_END> | 43,530 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'front'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Back to front? On this phrase I'll expand.
It's like arse about face. Understand?
Think of opposite faces
(Not sides) swapping places—
At odds with the way that you'd planned. <LIMERICK_END> | 30,834 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nookie behaviorism'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Your man's conduct needs modification?
B. F. Skinner can ease your frustration.
When he's good: "Here's a cookie."
If not: "No more nookie."
Behaviorism: That's your salvation! <LIMERI... | 4,010 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'private'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Though she's private, her countenance speaks.
It's the flushing, the pink in her cheeks—
Some warmth, some emotion,
Some scandalous notion?
All three? She's been wacky for weeks. <LIMERICK_END> | 53,670 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dachau passed'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Once, in Dachau, I passed with a sigh
Under chilling words: ARBEIT MACHT FREI.
Then I slumped down and wept
For lost cousins, all swept
Under Evil's dread talons to die. <LIMERICK_END> | 23,969 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pious jew'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> For a Chasid, a most pious Jew,
There are rules on just what he can do.
His observance of Law
Is precise, without flaw,
And there's more than just pork he'll eschew. <LIMERICK_END> | 18,376 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cold'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Now this is a curious rule,
Never taught in a college or school:
That jazz, we are told,
Isn't warm, isn't cold.
No it's not. It is hot or it's cool. <LIMERICK_END> | 32,455 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sydney carton'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> All his life Sydney Carton was cursed.
Of unfortunates, I rank him first.
For a girl his heart bled,
Then the man lost his head.
The best of times? More like the worst! <LIMERICK_END> | 12,290 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cardinals censured'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When I laughed at the whole virgin birth
All the cardinals censured my mirth.
They showed strong disapproval
And sought my removal
From being Christ's Vicar on earth. <LIMERICK_END> | 39,485 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'absquatulate means'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The source of some words can be blurry,
Which makes etymologists worry.
From the "Latin" one gleans
That absquatulate means
"To abscond or depart in a hurry." <LIMERICK_END> | 1,992 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'meat tough'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Was cow pie shot with gristle, right through,
So that Desperate Dan had to chew
With that jaw (oh, so bristly)
Horrid meat, tough and gristly?
Surely, beef should be tender and true. <LIMERICK... | 65,852 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'height dwarf'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> I know that I'm not very tall.
In fact I'm excessively small.
The proportions are right,
But I haven't the height.
I'm a dwarf, and that just says it all! <LIMERICK_END> | 45,803 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bromination halogen'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Bromination's a halogen coup
That molecular forces pursue.
Burly bromine, with clout,
Shoves a hydrogen out,
Bidding vagabond freedom adieu. <LIMERICK_END> | 9,097 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tanning'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The compound I'll soon be applying
Is useful in tanning and dyeing.
It's a catechin—kin
To the flavones that win
(For the primrose) the pinkness I'm eyeing. <LIMERICK_END> | 14,285 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'give liquor'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> My daughter got married today,
And I'm stunned by the money I'll pay.
So I'm downing a drink
At this cash bar—you think
I'm so dumb I'd give liquor away? <LIMERICK_END> | 13,832 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grandson'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Your great-grandson is not your descendent.
On good spelling, we all are dependent.
Did you notice that "e"
Where an "a" ought to be?
Then your smile should be wide and resplendent. <LIMERICK_EN... | 34,982 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hats'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Lady Helen's got hundreds of hats—
A complete aberration; she's bats!
And her favourite, by far
(Which I find quite bizarre),
Is adorned with three wrens and two rats. <LIMERICK_END> | 20,879 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'siblings'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> You can tell that I'm much like my brother:
We share the same father and mother.
I'm a girl, he's a guy.
Still, we're siblings; that's why
We're correlatively bound to each other. <LIMERICK_END> | 57,284 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'teenagers dead'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Seven Teenagers Dead Due to Cheese!"
There's no humor in headlines like these.
Cheese is heroin cut
With cold remedies, but
The result can drop kids to their knees. <LIMERICK_END> | 32,701 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'conjecturers terrible'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Conjecturers? Terrible stress
Can progress if a terrible mess
Is the outcome of placing
Your trust in them, basing
Your plan on a terrible guess. <LIMERICK_END> | 21,963 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dumping ground'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> A dumping ground: that's where we place
The unwanted who occupy space,
Who contribute so little,
A jot and a tittle:
The dregs of the great human race! <LIMERICK_END> | 64,955 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mitosis'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When the centrosome plays with the spindle,
A flame of division can kindle.
Microtubules connect,
And the cell will bisect.
In mitosis, the mother must dwindle. <LIMERICK_END> | 17,520 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'build coops'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> An extructor (a builder) named Heep:
"I build coops for small fowls that peep.
I don't charge you big bucks,
And my work's not deluxe,
But I'll do a nice job on the cheap." <LIMERICK_END> | 48,533 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'goshawk'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> That goshawk was really a pest;
It had followed me home to our nest.
When my mate saw the hawk
He attacked with a squawk,
A courageous but foolish beau geste. <LIMERICK_END> | 3,721 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'constitutions'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Constitutions are just what we lack.
As your king, I'm a tough nut to crack.
We've no lawyers, no laws,
And no backtalk because
It's an absolute monarchy, Mac! <LIMERICK_END> | 17,807 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grandpa buckboard'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Grandpa's buckboard, unevenly wheeled,
Took off bucketing over the field,
Hitting every last rut.
We kids glued our eyes shut
And survived. There was joy unconcealed. <LIMERICK_END> | 64,153 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alberto ascari'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> He drove races, won thirteen Grands Prix,
And a double world champion was he:
Alberto Ascari.
His car: a Ferrari.
The years: fifty-two, fifty-three. <LIMERICK_END> | 49,269 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fictitious'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Oh, fiddlesticks! Damn it all, Fred!
It was you who came here and who said
(In a manner malicious)
That I was fictitious,
Although I had been in your bed! <LIMERICK_END> | 62,976 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'murray'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> The untimely demise of our Murray:
Was that due to his bride's 'special curry'?
Just last Thursday they married;
Near this church he'll be buried.
His insurance came through, so no worry. <LIMERIC... | 57,729 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'linked list'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> With pointers both forwards and back,
A doubly linked list doesn't lack
For a way to traverse:
Go ahead, or reverse.
Either end can append and can whack. <LIMERICK_END> | 36,771 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'deep focus'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Says an actress of fading mystique:
"I despise this new camera technique!
Deep focus draws eyes
To the background," she sighs,
"And away from my famous physique." <LIMERICK_END> | 42,141 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'basic bread'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> If you need to make loaves for a feast,
And you have a few hours, at least—
Basic bread at its core
Has ingredients four;
They are water, salt, flour and yeast. <LIMERICK_END> | 7,238 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beautify'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When you beautify part of the city,
You're attempting to make it more pretty.
Hide all buildings unclean
Where they cannot be seen,
And pretend that there's no nitty-gritty. <LIMERICK_END> | 15,917 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lenny bruce'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Lenny Bruce had a valid excuse
For his language—profane and profuse,
Because four-letter words,
Both for sex and for turds,
Were inuring adults to their use. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,897 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'roast duck'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Gourmet food once gave Bill a real thrill.
The roast duck was superior; still
At first, what he saw
Made his jaw drop with awe—
He was shocked when they gave him the bill. <LIMERICK_END> | 24,784 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fleabane'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Herbaceous (thus making me wheeze),
Once reputed to drive away fleas,
Some are daisy-like, yellow:
The fleabane. My fellow,
Roger Vick, could you fact-check me please? <LIMERICK_END> | 55,697 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'deb terror'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Deb's terror of men was deep-seated.
Perhaps she'd been badly mistreated
In childhood—abused—
And that left her confused.
Firmly fixed, fear's not quickly defeated. <LIMERICK_END> | 40,188 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'carousel sound'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Now I'm lonely and old, and I've found
I am cheered by the carousel's sound,
As the tunes that it plays
Bring me back to the days
When I rode it, around and around. <LIMERICK_END> | 10,069 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'christmas balls'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> To prepare olden day Christmas balls,
They snaked foliage all round the walls.
Sharp leaves with red berries,
Sublime festive cherries...
'Twas known as bedecking the halls. <LIMERICK_END... | 5,642 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'signal'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Say the noise on your signal is hell—
Is there data within? You can't tell.
Billy Idol's refrain
Might just save you some pain;
Let it dance with itself for a spell. <LIMERICK_END> | 2,743 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'adolf hitler'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Online chat—here's the way that it goes:
Views are shared and the readership grows.
Things get warm, then inflamed.
Adolf Hitler is named.
The discussion thread comes to a close. <LIMERICK_E... | 57,559 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'train hit'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Something's looming ahead in the rain.
Still, I'd rather not big hole my train.
Hit the brake and stop short?
It'll wind up in court.
Some damned passenger's sure to complain. <LIMERICK_END> | 48,092 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fantods'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Got the fantods—she's having a fit.
She looks fearsome, I'll have to admit.
From her eyes she hurls spears;
Sparks emerge from her ears;
From her loud-howling mouth dribbles spit. <LIMERICK_END> | 50,429 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'free ales'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> There was once a fine speaker from Wales
Who enraptured his pub mates with tales.
Every person who heard
Would not dare miss a word
Of his stories, which came with free ales. <LIMERICK_END> | 46,492 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'amyl nitrate'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> "Amyl nitrate is legal? That's hot!
What the heck (snort!), let's give it a shot."
But a rush? Hell, no way!
Just a seven-day stay
In the hospital's all that I got. <LIMERICK_END> | 22,717 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'frugally wed'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Just the two of us, that's all we fed;
Skipped the cruise, saw a movie instead;
A hotel for two nights
(Even dimmed all the lights).
We eloped. Yes, we frugally wed. <LIMERICK_END> | 54,232 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'winter cheer'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> In Newfoundland, hot winter cheer
Begins with the local spruce beer.
Molasses and rum
Make it sweet; when you're numb,
Callibogus helps warmth reappear. <LIMERICK_END> | 16,851 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fifty hours'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Fifty hours a week I'm confined.
Endless mountains of work I'm assigned.
Plus, I work for a boss
Who's consistently cross.
It's a horrible job—it's a grind. <LIMERICK_END> | 62,387 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'delphic oracle'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Delphic oracle: it came to be
In about seven hundred B.C.,
Where Grecians would follow
The priests of Apollo,
Whose wisdom was sought for a fee. <LIMERICK_END> | 29,626 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chattered teletypes'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> On the mainframe computer, one day,
Chattered teletypes: users at play.
In the cool 'puter room,
Unaware of his doom,
At his console the op typed away. <LIMERICK_END> | 26,482 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shaped faces'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Dish-shaped faces are marks of the owls
And afford them the open-gazed scowls
That improve their keen sight
And refocus dusk's light
On the soon-to-be prey of their prowls. <LIMERICK_END> | 35,824 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sugar'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Add a sprinkle of sugar with neatness,
And dulceness is added (that's sweetness).
Next you pour, from your pot,
Coffee—fresh-brewed and hot.
Now your breakfast has reached its completeness. <LIMER... | 43,282 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fishing crustaceans'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> We're committed by treaty, no doubt;
We can't increase our catches without
Breach of strict limitations
On fishing crustaceans.
The solution: we'll just crawfish out. <LIMERICK_END> | 28,856 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'worst name'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Some say W stands for the Worst;
Name another that's worse if you durst.
Eight long years, way too much
Of that evil gang's touch —
May we never again be so curst! <LIMERICK_END> | 30,338 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'batsmen go'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Two elevens of batsmen go in
Once or twice, deal with pace, seam, swing, spin
Till they're out or declare,
Then depart from the square.
Yet the team with more runs might not win! <LIMERICK_END... | 25,393 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dick nixon'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> Said Dick Nixon, "I cannot walk straight.
My paths curve and their arc is innate.
Now the doc says it's me
And my aqueous knee,
As I break into my water gait." <LIMERICK_END> | 29,993 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'passive'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> When the active's the form of your voice,
Then you make a grammatical choice.
Say: "My Rolls-Royce was nicked",
And the passive was picked.
Rather, utter: "They nicked my Rolls-Royce!" <LIMERICK_... | 3,772 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'close harmony'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> As my colleagues each hold a firm note,
A new tone issues forth from my throat:
Not a fifth or a third,
But so near it's absurd.
Does close harmony garner your vote? <LIMERICK_END> | 22,237 |
You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'custodianship'. Start your limerick now.
<LIMERICK_START> What ship, you might ask, means you're sharing
Your time and concern, without sparing,
For a person (or thing)
Taken under your wing?
That's custodianship. You are caring. <LIMERICK_END> | 39,362 |
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