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Lawnmowing limericks at WIZ

by Patricia | 5.14.09

I have a clown phobia and a lawnmower phobia.  If you want to drive me over the edge, hire a clown and send him to mow my lawn. 

But since it isn’t technically clown season and is most definitely lawnmowing season, I thought it would be interesting, and hopefully fun, to try a lawnmowing limerick thread.  If you would like to contribute, here are the rules:

1. Your poem must scan and rhyme according to good limerick form:  a more-or-less anapestic line pattern, 3-3-2-2-3, rhyme scheme a a b b a.   Example:

There was an old soldier of Bister
Went walking one day with his sister,
When a cow at one poke
Tossed her into an oak,
Before the old gentleman missed her.
                                  Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose

2.  Clever/humorous is good; tasteless/off-colored is bad.  See WIZ’s submissions guide.

3.  Your limerick must address the humor, ironies, or downright absurdities of growing and mowing grass lawns.  Or, if you’re a lawnmowing enthusiast, write a limerick defending this most noisy and noxious warm weather ritual.

4.  Add your limerick to this thread in the comments section of this post.  That way, we’ll have them lined up to be read in succession.

My first:

The grass lawn is a curious invention;
Out West, a most wondrous convention.
There folks force it to grow,
And then they’re forced to mow,
And to Roundup them weeds, not to mention.

9 Responses to Lawnmowing limericks at WIZ

  1. Wm Morris

    A lawn is actually just a small field
    that’s not being used to get yield
    of greens to feast
    your hoof-ed beast
    so you can prove that you’re well-heeled.

  2. Patricia

    That’s the spirit, Wm, and appropriately choppy.

  3. Th.

    .

    My lawnmower’s blades are all rusty
    And my mowing desire’s just as crusty
    If I tear it all up
    And let flowers corrupt
    Then my yard might at last become lusty.

  4. Patricia

    Pure and brilliant, Th.

  5. Doug Harris

    Leave the lawnmower there in the hut,
    “How will that work?” you say – I know! But
    Simply sprinkle your grass
    With some whisky (large glass)
    And the blighter will come up half cut.

  6. Patricia

    That’s one way to soak the grass!

    But you’re still in the pickle of maintaining your lawn’s, um, drinking problem.

  7. Th.

    .

    Don’t drink and mow!

  8. Patricia

    There was an old lady who mowed
    When the first crack of dawn barely glowed.
    She’d wake up the neighbors
    With her untimely labors
    But her love for that lawn really showed.

    True story.

  9. Patricia

    A fearsome machine is the mower,
    Grass-beheader and light shrapnel-thrower.
    It will take out prize roses
    With near half of your toeses:
    ‘Tis the hard way to reap what you sower.

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