Juvenilia - My First Limerick
Some children sat down on the floor.
They sat till their bottoms were sore.
“We could each take a chair,”
said one boy sitting there.
“So then what are we waiting for?”
For the Juvenilia Contest of Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer
Note: Around age 10 or 11, I had a teacher who taught us about limericks.
I really loved it and had never written anything creative to my knowledge before that day. I have been searching my house to see if I kept my very first poem in any of my scrapbooks, but I must not have. I have had this little poem in my memory ever since that time, but am not exactly sure how I did my line 2, so I've created a new line two, though I don't think I was talking about "bottoms" in the fifth grade yet!
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2017
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