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Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

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Fugit

One person’s life,
a puff, a breeze
at altar of time
where stars bend their knees.

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Lumen
A #poetry thread

i.

In sable night
that lacks the stars,
a sealed off cave.
A man, five scars.

The tail of night,
a crack is heard.
Black stone is rolled,
a flight of birds.

Beloved with
her oils and herbs.
She sees the stone
and finds no words.

🧵👇🏼

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Odoacer
A #poetry thread

i.

Once the Seven Hills saw
the grim Goths at the gates,
boy Augustulus’ laws
faded with the Fates.

Then the sky’s sundial spun
for fifteen hundred years
and a new Rome had sprung
by banks of black Remus’ tears.

In fair Mundus Novus
by seven swampy hills,
a new magnum opus
made real by ink and quill.

🧵👇🏼

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Lux

Fan window, glass door,
shafts of light in crumbling tower —
old man’s eyes open

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3 Kings 1:1

Gothic synagogue
watches, iron cogwheels turning —
new Jeroboam

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As chronicled in the books 1 and 2 Kings, Jeroboam was the tyrant who broke off from Judah to found the (Northern) Kingdom of Israel, eventually leading to that kingdom's downfall, then the fall of Judah, the destruction of Jerusalem, and the exile of the Israelites to Babylon.

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Scroll

Tram in blue and gold,
bold-type slogan on its side —
faces in blue glow

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Tsukubai

She ladles water
from the stone basin: gnarled hands —
Grey carp drifts away

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Lakeside
A #poetry thread

i.

The wind whips through tassels of grass
that wave in the sundown’s pale light.
Dark waters shine, reflect the mass
of oak branches that welcome the night.

Across the lake, the sun departs:
its weary disc slips past the dew —
the eye of day winks and embarks —
many distant suns wink into view.

🧵👇🏼

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Cracks

Within wooden ribs
stone heart prays with weary breath —
lost cathedral, found

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Aquarium
A #poetry thread

i.

I watched a fish
in an aquarium.
Her bright tail swished —
I heard her over the hum:

She spoke to me
through thick blue glass
and asked if I felt free
as she swam a languid pass.

I said, through the voir,
why yes, and pointed out
that she’s in a jar —
then had a little doubt.

🧵👇🏼

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Pupæ
A #poetry thread

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i.

They hang like commas, green and curled
from word-hung branches, a sentence grows;
they're folded into minds still furled
to punctuate new worlds that flow.

Each pupa’s case still holds its breath,
in blanket sewn with silk and time.
The caterpillar cheats its death
to form a brighter, stranger rhyme.

🧵👇🏼

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Daughter

Young shutterbug
stands warm and snug
in glow-rug of her phone.
I watch her frame
her shot, her way,
and make it all her own —

memory

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