Writing A Limerick Is Your Task

There was an old man with a beard

Who said, "it’s just how I feared!

Two owls and a hen

Four larks and a wren

Have all built their nests in my beard.

                                -      Anonymous

National Poetry Month continues and so does the healing from my back surgery! Many of you put your toe in the water of creativity with your haikus - thank you. The very best was from Makenzie Ryals who aptly describes the very weak hydrogen bond:

Hydrogen bonding

Electrostatic partners

“O!,” “H!,” stop flirting.

Unfortunately the best physics one was a serious lament by Rachel Jones:

Physics makes me cry

Physics makes me wanna die

I hate physics so.

If you go and read this link, you can read all about limericks. Let us make this at least of the level of a lady being present to read them (some can be quite bawdy). They are, of course, five lines, with the abba rhyme scheme. 

One of my favorites is about the daughter who eloped and took her dad's bucket full of money:

There was an Old Man of Nantucket

Who kept all his cash in a bucket.

His daughter, called Nan,

Ran away with a man,

And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

                                              - Anonymous

Chemistry students, write yours about balancing chemical equations or naming chemical compounds and quantities. Physics, write yours about sound or universal gravitation.

Here is my attempt:

There was a chemistry teacher at Kosciusko,

Who made students learn deeper than one momento.

They kicked and they bucked.

They got their parents riled up and even said he sucked.

Now some see the show and actually know.

-Super B

Happy Limericking!  If there are any others actually reading this blog, feel free to summit yours as well.