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	Limericks on pumpkin

Johanna_G

10-31-2007 5:06 AM

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10-31-2007 8:28 AM

Johanna_G

Halloween's not every ghoul's cup of tea

I've a six year-old ghoul with a pout;
She's so bashful she's filled with grave doubt.
Trick or treating's no fun
Without tricks to be done.
She's afraid to say "Boo!" when she's out.

Robert Holland in the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

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</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Had no time before midnight to spare,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">So she fled the <B>affair</B>,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Lost a shoe on the stair,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Flagged a pumpkin, but hadn't the fare.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=pumpkin&button=Search"><DIV class="limerickline">There's a curse which my beauty imposes:
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">I must leave you before the club closes —
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">For at twelve I'll mutate
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">To a pumpkin-ish state,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Which I call <B>apocolocyntosis</B></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=pumpkin&button=Search"><DIV class="limerickline">A ripe pumpkin escaped from its patch   
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Seeking pie crust with which it might match
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Its smooth flavor sublime,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">And be <B>browned</B> just in time
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">For Thanksgiving dessert made from scratch.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=pumpkin&button=Search"><DIV class="limerickline">The magician did wonderful tricks
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">When performing way out in the sticks.
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">From an average-sized pumpkin,
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">He pulled out a <B>bumpkin</B>.
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">(The word describes yokels and hicks.)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=pumpkin&button=Search"><DIV class="limerickline">At Thanksgiving, it's math we apply
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">To decide when the table's piled high.
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">When they're round, tables bear
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Food that fills <B>pi</B> r square.
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">Euclid have some dessert: pumpkin <B>π</B>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=pumpkin&button=Search"><DIV class="limerickline">The pumpkins I <B>carve</B> go awry
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">No matter how often I try.
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">I hear "Oh, my gosh!"-es
</DIV><DIV class="limerickline">When folk see my squashes.
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