Comments on: 2011 Metamorphosism International St. Valentine’s Day Limerick Contest

By: Trish

Trish — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:56:58 +0000

Only checking in now, but delighted to see Brandelion has raised the limerick bar this year. I’m also relieved to learn I didn’t miss anything since I would have been unable to comply with rule (1) and would have objected to the repeated obsession with Iceland (I’m still trying to delet Bjork lyrics from 2009).

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:05:12 +0000

To my sweetheart, it’s all immaterial
Whether horoscopes use the sidereal.
In this Year of the Rabbit,
I’ll stick, per my habit,
With the sign that says you are ethereal.

By: schnitzi

schnitzi — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:34:32 +0000

The mystics, all smoking their hookahs
Have a new sign for us: ophiuchus.
Though some will exclaim,
“Just keep it the same!”
Don’t change it like you were George Lucas!”

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:24 +0000

PS. I know how to spell Murdoch.

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:09 +0000

Oh Libra, the archetypical slut,
You’ve just had a punch to the gut.
Your sign is now Virgo,
Now sex you must forgo,
In short, you must keep your legs shut.

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:36:43 +0000

Iceland’s words has the world’s tongues corrupted
With Viking names, long and disrupted.
Eyjafjallajökull, we’ve found
Is spelled like it sounds,
Still the Yanks wish Katla had erupted!

By: Lisa D

Lisa D — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:00:22 +0000

While America’s Court Supreme
Was interpreting Murdock’s wet dream
By giving a vote
To BP and Coke,
Karl Rove joined the “fair” Fox News Team.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:49:59 +0000

There was a wise ol’ woman pikey
Who had a very potent psyche
She arched her type
A metaphor so ripe
That those who fucked her said “crikey”.

By: Jann

Jann — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:22:16 +0000

Mary pondered the meanings of “syz’gy”,
As she lazily tossed her old frisbee,
“Earth, sun, moon, all aligned…”
But then Jung came to mind,
And she wondered aloud what might his be.

Jung, syzygy: http://tinyurl.com/4q9j58y
See under “The persona”

By: Jann

Jann — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:59:13 +0000

As he thoughtfully furrowed his brow,
Said her Jungian shrink, “Let’s see now,
“You can’t find your animus,
“Unless you smoke cannabis,
“And that is a problem, just how?”

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:19:44 +0000

We’re now in the ‘Year of the Rabbit’
Jung thought broader than Freud about ‘going at it’
Iceland’s volcano eruptions rages
While Walmart lowers local wages
A few sussed out global wealth & then grabbed it.

By: Jann

Jann — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:02:57 +0000

In seventy-three on Heimaey,
The volcano Eldfell had its waey,
Five months lava flowed,
Till it finally slowed.
Folks cooled molten rock with sea spraey.

While this great volcano erupted,
Isle life was, in toto, disrupted,
Lava flowed ever stronger,
The island grew longer,
Old maps of the island, corrupted.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey
Photo of lava: http://tinyurl.com/6j8d77c

By: Jann

Jann — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:04:10 +0000

These two go together.

From the high rocky cliffs of Heimaey,
Young puffins set off on their way,
Confused in the night,
In the town they alight,
On the streets, they’d not last through the day.

Town folks on these dark August nights,
Set out with their trusty flashlights,
Search all through the town,
Hunt the lost pufflings down,
The next day set them back on their flights.

Heimaey is a volcanic island off Iceland.
Video re puffin rescue: http://tinyurl.com/57me5f

By: joeri

joeri — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:19:06 +0000

In Húsavík, tired of watching the whales
Things to see, without many details:
There’s a great perineum
at the Icelandic Phallological Museum
I still ponder over what this entails.

By: joeri

joeri — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:45:35 +0000

I’m no specialist in matters Icelandic
Well, in fact I’m just autodidactic
But I know just this þing:
Iceland’s spelling is king
But the typos I make are gigantic