Acrostic Limericks 7

© Can Stock Photo & damedeeso used with permission

Some time ago, I was looking at acrostic poems  — I was interested in rhyming verse where the first letter of each line spells out a word when read from top to bottom. Many examples of these can be found scattered around the web, but I have found very few examples of acrostic Limericks.

That is something we need to address, isn’t it?

And so I have started to look out for prompts that contain five letters (or ten, fifteen or… let’s not get ahead of ourselves, eh?). I may add the odd one of my own, too.

Let me know what you think.

GRACE

(for Kristian – https://talesfromthemindofkristian.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/grace-2/)

Godiva rode nude on a horse
Repeat from last week? Yes, of course.
A peeper called Thomas
Couldn’t help break his promise
Exhibiting no real remorse.

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QUARK

(for fun)

Quantum physics is well beyond me
Using concepts I can’t even see
And that cat, is it dead?
Really? Who could have said?
Kindly fetch me a hot cup of tea.

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FIFTY

(for fun)

Five times every day, on this chair
I sit and pretend not to care.
For, twenty years on,
The pain hasn’t gone;
Your thumbtack will always be there.

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Anyone else care to join in?

Is this true?

I remember the day we moved into the new house on a big, brand-new housing estate. I was two at the time. I found the whole moving thing confusing and a tiny bit scary (I’ve never been much good with new things). It was a good job that my brother was there with me that day. He was nearly four and that, to my eyes, was practically a grown-up. He was brave and clever and knew all sorts of stuff. He wasn’t always nice to me but he told me that big brothers were supposed to be a bit mean to help the younger ones to toughen up and I believed him.

We went outside the house together and he showed me what would be the back garden when Daddy had time to work on it. I remember he put his arm around my shoulder and looked down at me with an expression that I had seen once or twice before, and that worried me every time I saw it. He said I didn’t have to worry about anything. The only thing that would hurt me in this new house was him. He looked around to make sure Mummy and Daddy weren’t in sight, then he reached down and hit me in the tummy. Hard. Three times.

I screamed. Mummy came running out and asked what had happened and why I was holding my tummy and crying. My brother said that he didn’t know, that I was like it when he found me. He said he had been looking at a cat in the shed when he heard me scream and ran to see what it was. Mummy said what a good, caring brother he was and how lucky I was to have him. She didn’t see his ‘tell’ – his tongue pushing his cheek out. I did.

Later, I tried to tell Mummy and Daddy what had really happened that day, and how it was becoming a regular thing. Their response was to tell me off for making up lies. Telling stories, they called it.

Later, after our sister was born, we boys gradually became somewhat closer. We were less than two years apart in age and I could do almost all the things he could – except ride a bike and tie my shoelaces. It took me a long time to learn both of those, although my reading and stuff were better than his which made up for it. Over time, the thumpings stopped and we got up to all sorts of mischief together. Sadly, dear little sister made life harder for us when she turned out to be a real snitch. Every time we did something wrong when Mummy and Daddy were out, she told them about as soon as they got back. My brother’s job was to persuade her to stop telling on us, which was not easy because – well, everybody knows you’re not allowed to hit girls. So that didn’t work. My job was to tell our side of the story so we didn’t get punished. Again, I was always accused of lying, making up stories. So that didn’t work either.

More than six decades have passed since those days and here I am still making up stories. True, they tend to be longer and more complex these days, but I believe that it’s thanks in large part to the training and experience gained as a boy, that I now have ten books on my bookshelf with my name on the spine!

Important things, families.

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This was written in response to Kreative Kue 273 published on this site.


Kreative Kue 273

Kreative Kue 272 asked for submissions based on this photograph:

John W Howell is a multiple nominated and award-winning author who blogs at Fiction Favorites. Details of John’s books can be found on his Amazon author page

Below by John W. Howell © 2020

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My effort was

Things are looking up

I saw Mum was looking up high
Her eyes pointing into the sky
But what could we do?
Maybe we should look too
My little mate Shitsu and I.

If my old pal Flash was still here
He’d be able to see it, that’s clear
He’s a greyhound, you see
Unlike Shitsu and me
He could see anything far and near.

Thing is, I’m a Terrier, I dig
And Shitsu is not very big
But something is there
Way up in the air
And it’s making Mum do a wee jig.

So here is the thing that we need
If we want our new quest to succeed
Never mind flee or fight
We need some more height
And we need it without a nosebleed.

You may think this rhyme is absurd
As if dogs could act like a bird
Perhaps I’ll just jump
And look like a chump
But when push comes to shove, Mum’s the word

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On to this week’s challenge: Using this photo as inspiration, write a short story, flash fiction, scene, poem; anything, really; even just a caption for the photograph. Either put it (or a link to it) in a comment or email it to me at keithchanning@gmail.com before 6pm next Sunday (if you aren’t sure what the time is where I live, this link will tell you). If you post it on your own blog or site, a link to this page would be appreciated, but please do also mention it in a comment here.

Go on. You know you want to. Let your creativity and imagination soar. I shall display the entries next Monday.