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BOOK: “New Comic Limericks” ed. by Ivanette Dennis

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New Comic LimericksNew Comic Limericks by Ivanette Dennis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This anthology consists of 63 pages of whimsical limericks with amusing cartoon illustrations by Louis Marak. There aren’t laugh-out-loud yucks to be had here, but the wordplay of these poems is clever and the limericks are more well-crafted than most. It should be pointed out that there is nothing risqué in the collection either. The most best-known limerick writers included are Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Gelett Burgess, and Charles Barsotti. [Incidentally, the most famous writers included are Rudyard Kipling, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Robert Louis Stevenson.]

The pieces take a wide variety playful approaches to the limerick from eye rhymes, slant rhymes and the shape poetry of Charles Barsotti.

If you’re interested in limericks and wordplay, there is a lot to learn from the examples presented in this anthology.

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Dandelion [Limerick]

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“Spring has lined all roads with dandelions.”
 At this a young girl started cryin’
     You see, to her ear,
     ‘Twas rational fear,
 For she was afraid of Dandy Lions.

Shit Creek [Limerick]

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Photograph taken in Budapest, Hungary at the City Park.
The sign said that one cannot swim,
  But the chances of that were quite slim.
   It looked like pea soup,
   But the color of poop,
 To swim up Shit Creek you'd have to be dim.

CZECH REPUBLIC LIMERICK

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A parachutist from Czech Republic
   never ever did have too much luck.
      He dodged a tall spire,
      bounced off a high wire,
  hit a wall and knocked loose some pub bricks.

SOUTH KOREA LIMERICK

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There was a young man from South Korea
   who was prone to verbal diarrhea.
      “But better that kind
       than from the behind,”
   Said that fast-talking lad from Korea.

THAILAND LIMERICK

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There was a wise pot seller in Thailand
  whose customers always claimed to be scammed.
     You see, he sold metal pots –
     Ganja varietals, not –
  but he truly had the strongest pot in the land.

AUSTRIA LIMERICK

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There once was a man from Austria
  prone to coffee house nausea.
     “Our cafés are held dear,
     but I can’t go near…”
 said that lonely, skinny man of Austria.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES LIMERICK

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There was a Bedouin from the UAE
  who never in his life had seen a tree.
     Walking through lands
     of endless sands,
  he had nothing to hide behind to take a pee.

CAMBODIA LIMERICK

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There was a Cambodian archaeologist 
  who dug up temples in jungles – get the gist.
      But one day his dig,
      under a Strangler Fig,
  got him strangled… or so claimed the botanist.

NETHERLANDS LIMERICK

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There was a sweet girl from the Netherlands
  who worried the hard rains might never end.
     When street became moat,
     She traded bike for boat.
 At canal-surfing she became a veteran.