Eileen Manassian Poet Limerick

Sonnet Sorrows and Tanka Blankas

Can’t write me a good sonnet
It’s a bee in my bonnet
The words will NOT rhyme
It is such a crime
Others have gone and done it!

Piece of pie with the quatrains
Them beauties tickle my brains
I just cannot stop
The words they just pop
But dang sonnets sure are pains!

It’s clear that I’m no Shakespeare
But I try, now what’s the fear?
Might fall on my face
And be a disgrace
A laugh for many a peer!

And then there is the tanka
Help me, or I’ll just spank ya
Keep wanting to rhyme
I get stuck each time
Praise me, and I will thank ya!

Don’t let me start on haiku
I try with so much ado
That blasted third line
Just won’t turn out fine
You’re laughing now, aren't you?

For Andrea's Contest
Show me the Funny (Part II)

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Anne-Lise Andresen April 23, 2013 at 12:20 PM I will never laugh at you, but I'm happy to laugh with you - very good work if you ask me. - (I've posted a new poem today, if you want to read it.) - oxox / / Anne-Lise :) # always :) Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM Hi sweet Anne Lise! I will go there soon! :) Thanks for the tip! Hugs!

Richard D Seal April 23, 2013 at 10:05 AM I'm definately not helping you Auntie and I'm ready when you are, lol. I know what you mean here, I get all confuddled with it myself, though you seem to be doing just fine. Take care, Richard Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM Richard....I see you woke up on the naughty side of the bed this morning! ;) Be good! I have written a sonnet, and lots of Haiku! God good posts, so....but I'm not satisfied myself. I'm the hardest to please!

Timothy Hicks April 23, 2013 at 8:50 AM Perhaps not Shakespeare but definitely Edward Lear! (the inventor of the limerick). LOL! Everyone's mind just works differently... at the end of the day it's not so much how you dress it up as much as WHAT you're saying. Your title is almost a poem in itself, very funny! It was so nice of you to stop by and read so many of my poems... I loved your, dare I say, 'dripping honesty', that you showered me with ;) Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 12:46 PM Yes....well, dripping honesty is the best, my dear! You are the one who coined the phrase. I like it! Talk about titles...that sure got my attention! :)

Richard Lamoureux April 23, 2013 at 8:11 AM For me the Haiku is the most difficult. Debbie says simple as porridge but my brain wants to make a souflett. Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 12:50 PM Ok Richard. You've always encouraged me to join contests. Now...it's my turn to encourage you! Want to see a haiku from you ASAP! You can do it! :) So what if it is souffletish! All the better!

Poet Tacito April 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM Damn the 3rd line! LOL! This was awesome. Don't ever sell yourself short, like a incomplete Senryu. ;) Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM What a lovely post! Yea...I thrive on encouragement. Makes me needy sometimes, but....that's the way I'm wired! So...thanks for the visit! Lifted my spirits! :)

Demetrios Trifiatis April 23, 2013 at 6:52 AM A wonderful limerick, That I am unable to do, For that I am thinking, To do some voodoo! Since you mention Shakespeare, May I remind you, It was on this date he departed 1616 For other things to do! Thank you! Eileen Manassian April 23, 2013 at 6:59 AM Demetri!!!! Ti oraia! Alethia! Mou arese para poly! Esai toso eksipnos! MA MA! Katapliktikos! :) Great job! Hats off to you! As for our dear bard...well, he has left a lovely legacy so...he's excused! ;)