Andrea Dietrich Poet Limerick

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!

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Sandra Haight May 25, 2017 at 4:49 PM Andrea, such an adorable Limerick you wrote at such a young age. Congrats on your placement. Hugs, Sandra

Jan Allison May 25, 2017 at 6:28 AM dropping back with my congrats Andrea:-) hugs Jan xx

Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer May 25, 2017 at 5:11 AM This was lots of fun Andrea.

Robert Johnson May 19, 2017 at 7:50 PM I hope you keep this in mind when your young students sit on the floor. :) So when their minds start to wander you'll realize when you ponder. That there's a reason when you feel you're a bore. :)

Jean Murray May 19, 2017 at 5:32 PM A taste of thing to come Andrea. Well done to the ten year old you.

Scott Thirtyseven May 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM What a hoot

Sneha Rv May 17, 2017 at 12:12 AM Oh this is so cute! xD

Joanna Daniel May 16, 2017 at 1:19 AM Nice one, Andrea, great to know that you started out with humorous poems, I've always been the serious type:)

Vladislav Raven May 14, 2017 at 4:30 PM Hi Andrea, well i have started looking at the limerick form now and i am enjoying the reads. This is a wonderful limerick you have written. I like the fun with the kids, i can picture the scene so easily. This Limerick shall join my others as a fave and it is a most definite seven. Hope it does well for you in the contest. Hugs....Mike. XX

Connie Marcum Wong May 13, 2017 at 7:16 PM So cute Andrea I love it I hope it does well in the contest. Seven : )

Abosede Ogundare May 13, 2017 at 3:11 PM LOL! Beautiful Limerick, Andrea.

Sara Kendrick May 13, 2017 at 9:31 AM Reads like a winner..So a poet from day one..Thanks for sharing and for reading my work..Sara

James Horn May 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM AD, Aha. You have accepted my challenge. Read my last couple of limericks especially about Lincoln. jth

John Michaels May 13, 2017 at 3:18 AM Heh, I really like this one, Andrea. It has that childlike innocence, obviously, but still gave me a chuckle. Regards, John.

Debbie Duncan May 13, 2017 at 1:19 AM Cute, thank you for liking my Hell Found Me :)

Matthew Anish May 12, 2017 at 6:48 PM Somewhat funny - I wrote a limerick a while back and got some laughs, I said to my girlfriend - who is Jewish that I was talking to a woman about my poems. She got jealous!!! Guess she still likes me. I enjoy writing and going to self publish a another book of poems, I will be in the showcase in June there!! Peace & Blessings Matthew Anish

Jack Horne May 12, 2017 at 4:02 PM LOL, love this & still have a school boy sense of humour

Demetrios Trifiatis May 12, 2017 at 8:22 AM Andrea, my dear, I do not think at that age and with the teacher there you would have used the word bottoms and sore! I think it could have been:" they sat on a mattress near the door" haha! A lovely and delightful Monoku! Andrea Dietrich May 13, 2017 at 9:11 PM whatever I said in that line, the poem has now been improved. haha.

Darren White May 12, 2017 at 8:06 AM Aww, I LOVE this Andrea! (What did you use instead of "bottoms" back then? ;) Good luck in the contest.

Kim Rodrigues May 12, 2017 at 7:01 AM Fun to see where we all started! I like your limerick! I am thrilled to see my 11 year old granddaughter writing!

Joseph May May 12, 2017 at 4:31 AM You did a great job on your first limerick Andrea...GL in the contest

Jan Allison May 12, 2017 at 3:43 AM What a fun limerick - wish I had been more creative at an early age! I didn't start writing until 2014 and have no recollection of anything I wrote apart from one I posted on soup and I doubt the sponsor would be interested as it was a poop poem lol - I will mail it you am not sure I posted it on soup lol:-) hugs Jan xx

White Wolf May 11, 2017 at 8:56 PM And I bet you got an A+ too, Andrea! Best of luck to you! Andrea Dietrich May 12, 2017 at 12:17 AM thanks, I WILL need luck with this one. haha

Agnes Krampe May 11, 2017 at 8:56 PM Fun limerick. It is funny how well we remember some of our childhood poems. I wish I had a record of the really early ones; I did not start saving poems until I was 14 or so. Andrea Dietrich May 12, 2017 at 12:16 AM I didn't even WRITE them except for a handful before I was 45! It's pretty cool if you started out doing it so young, Agnes.