I'm thinking there's many
a drinking toast
'Cheers!' 'Cin cin!' '¡Salud!'
'Sláinte!' 'Prost!'
'Here's looking at you!'
or 'Mud in your eye!'
'To health wealth and happiness!'
in Japan it's 'Kanpai'
Hebrew 'L'chaim!' Chinese 'Ganbei!'
Russia 'Na Zdorovie!' Scandinavia 'Skål!'
and 'E ola!' in Hawaii
but was it a member
of the gay persuasion
who first let slip
before a sip slurp or sup
twixt cup and lip
the suggestion 'Bottoms up!'
There was indeed a Georgia peach
Who took a licking from a leech
As nudists do
They found a few
Picky crabs all over the beach!
I heard a prattling rattling battling noise
In my children’s room, in the midst of their toys
Slurp and Shriek
Dancing deep
A battling ram came out and gave me a peek
Was that a battling ram? I asked my imaginary friend.
She threw flowers on me and refused to bend.
Dived into the toys
Making even more noise
I had to drag her out when she began to shriek.
What are you doing in there? Yelled the only adult in the house.
I figured it was my husband not a big mouse.
I saved myself
By parking my butt on a shelf
Pretending to be a doll, wearing my very best blouse
The slurps and the shrieks went on for awhile
Imaginary Sally and I had started to smile
Husband came in and took a peek
But ran out again when he heard a shriek
Written: March 14th, 2020
Contest: A Rattling Rhyme 2
Sponsor: Nina Parmenter
Dog
Puppy
Slurping Now
Uh-oh! Uh-oh!
Spitting it back up.
He runs so Fast
And slobbers.
Puppy
Now
Slurp and Then Usurp
Then there was the time that I did slurp
Up all of the things which I would usurp;
Pretty son get,
Stomach upset,
When I forgot to stick feet in each stirrup.
Jim Horn
Man in moon used crater as spoon
To sup upon milky whey and curds
Sipping up star shake with slurp and burp
I sat for a meal in Kuwait
The flies came in hordes on my plate
The soup, they decided
To drink, uninvited,
Bad manners is something I hate!
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Contest: Laughter Is the Best Medicine Limerick Contest
Sponsor: Jan Allison
Placed 1st
14 October, 2016
The Yankee rancher still blusters
in a drawl he barely musters
launching holy wars
while behind locked doors
he would give more head than Custer.