A limerick
EPIGRAPH:
Many hands make light work.
–Adagia
An old minstrel feeling weakly and sick Called his bard pals to help him right quick; Though seemingly absurd, Each took up a single word... That verse got constructed... brick by brick.
d’Verse Poetics
A Penny for Your Thoughts!
At d’Verse, poets were offered a list of adages and proverbs to select from, as inspiration for their poems:
- “Many hands make light work.” Adagia
- “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Poor Richard’s Almanack
- “Fish and visitors stink after three days.” Poor Richard’s Almanack
- “To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.” Poor Richard’s Almanack
- “Things are not always what they seem.” Bee-Keeper and the Bees” from Aesop’s Fables
- “The truth shall set you free.” John 8:32
- “To everything there is a season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1
- “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” Forrest Gump, the movie.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!
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enjoyed reading this limerick!
❤ ❤ Rosema ❤ ❤
~ hi! how are you doing?
-David
been thrown life’s curved balls all over but. still breathing. 🙂 i hope you’re well!
Your limerick builds a poem more than worthy of the prompt. Great job.
💓💛 Lauren 💛💓
Wonderful limerick, David!
Hank
❤️💝 Hank 💝❤️
Touché
💖🤎 David 🤎💖
Oh I love it! And I love limericks. 😊
💓💜 Mary 💜💓
Collecting words is one way to create poetry
💜💖 Björn 💖💜
This is absolutely splendid! You rocked the prompt, David 😀
🤘💓 Sanaa 💓🤘
Now there’s an idea…crowdsourced poetry. (K(
💛💘 Kerfe 💘💛 ~ sometimes it takes a village
bravo!!!
light and refreshing
Much love…
💙💝 Gillena 💝💙
This is brilliant David, love the image you paint here of creating a poem like building bricks! 😁👏❤️
💜💓 Ken 💓💜
So true,
And i love how they each came
Putting his life together
Helping along brick by brick
That’s the feeling i get
And it is fine to be vulnerable
As the limerick says.
💛💞 Abi 💞💛
♥♥David
Good morning
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