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May.03.2013
There once was a poet named Thomas
Who everyone said had such promise
Till he wrote that the Wasteland
would turn into Graceland
Which I don’t understand, to be Honest.
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Apr.11.2013
There once was a playwright named Will
Whose spelling was practically nil.
Whether Shaksper or Shakspere
Or Shakspe or Shakespeare
Sweet Will had his will with a quill.
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Oct.20.2011
There was a gifted and talented teenWhose mother and father were always on the sceneHe went to school and got good gradesAnd always yearned to get paidRight now he is immersed in Halloween...
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Oct.07.2011
Oh, I'd like to be Poet Laureate,the best literary ballgame around,to chronicle functionsand royal conjunctionswould suit me down to the ground.
To muse on the subtext of historymight prompt an account in free verse,but the annals of timewould ring with my rhymeand the picture would be none...
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Dec.15.2010
Snow forecasts did not prescribe salt
causing traffic in winter to halt
and taxpayers' odium
at introuvable sodium
made teeth grit and find planning at fault!
Claimed drivers when ice capped their journey
'Winter's stockpile of salt's not come early.
This lack of base...
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Jul.15.2010
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to come up with a politically incorrect limerick that involves the typical conundrum of a technology project manager, presents a geography lesson and teaches ESL students the usage of the interrogative pronoun “what,”
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Jul.17.2009
Eulogy in Limerick, Ireland for Father Patrick McGrath
Greetings from Cynthia Brian in California.
We mourn the death of a great man, Father Patrick McGrath who died on Sunday, July 12, 2009. Father McGrath was a life-long friend of my family and a mentor to me personally. The Reverend McGrath...
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Nov.14.2008
It is my Father's birthday today. If he lived he would be 89 years old. He grew up in Limerick city where his mother, a widow, ran an hotel in an old Georgian house, called McCarthy's Hotel. He was one of ten children, five sons and five daughters. In his own words, ''the hotel enjoyed a high...
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