Recently, poetrysoup.com had a member contest devoted to golf limericks; the one I wrote is titled Slow Play. A limerick is a short five line poem rhyming aabba, and usually deals with drinking and sex or other recreational activities. In the contest, the contest sponsor Craig Cornish suggested the best way to get the beat correctly was to use a syllable count for each line of the five line poem as 9/9/5/5/9. Most limericks don't have titles unless they are built on a poetry site that requires a title. That's limerick as in poem not like the photograph of the town of Limerick, Ireland.
Here's a new Golf Limerick for the week:
Odds on the Shot
Pastor Joe offered odds that he'd par
and win every hole against his partner
but Noah's drive undersea
rose by nose of manatee
Joe said forget it Noah, I'm too poor.
I'm not the only one who has this illness, if you want to call it that. Golf Limerick Poems is a fun website where you can find golf-oriented limericks and poems, the most recent dedicated to the Master's Tournament. Isaac Asimov is also famous for his collections of limericks he wrote, find his collections at Amazon.
Here's a new Golf Limerick for the week:
Odds on the Shot
Pastor Joe offered odds that he'd par
and win every hole against his partner
but Noah's drive undersea
rose by nose of manatee
Joe said forget it Noah, I'm too poor.
I'm not the only one who has this illness, if you want to call it that. Golf Limerick Poems is a fun website where you can find golf-oriented limericks and poems, the most recent dedicated to the Master's Tournament. Isaac Asimov is also famous for his collections of limericks he wrote, find his collections at Amazon.
If you're unfamiliar with the tradition of limericks, that isn't surprising. We visited Limerick, Ireland several years ago and found the only place we could find a collection of limericks was in an airport shop.
We did not golf in Limerick, either, but found our way to the nearby town of Adare where the local golf course, Adare Manor Golf Club contains ruins of a castle. This was a new hazard for me. Unfortunately, the lepercauns destroyed my camera with a plunge into a pool of water shortly after we played and I lost my picture of the golf course. The picture shown is one of the lovely cottages found downtown Adare, where there's a park and good food along with shopping in the cottages.
We did not golf in Limerick, either, but found our way to the nearby town of Adare where the local golf course, Adare Manor Golf Club contains ruins of a castle. This was a new hazard for me. Unfortunately, the lepercauns destroyed my camera with a plunge into a pool of water shortly after we played and I lost my picture of the golf course. The picture shown is one of the lovely cottages found downtown Adare, where there's a park and good food along with shopping in the cottages.
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