Can We Do a Limerick Together???

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"Oh no!" cried poor Daisy in fright.
"Those initials just cannot be right!"
For the letters 'E.B'
Are plain to be seen,
'Tis loving and giving that makes life worth living.

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Re: Can We Do a Limerick Together???

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"Oh no!" cried poor Daisy in fright.
"Those initials just cannot be right!"
For the letters 'E.B.'
Were quite plain to see -
Had Enid hit Fatty that night?


(Hope you don't mind, Daisy, but I changed your fourth line slightly so it's an exact rhyme.)
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All of you have bern very creative. Truly impressed with the lines! :D
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:lol: :lol: :lol: This just keeps getting better and better! :wink:
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Not at all Anita... I love your last line!

Poor Bets - she just sat down and cried,
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Poor Bets - she just sat down and cried,
"I thought Enid liked us!" she sighed,
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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Poor Bets - she just sat down and cried,
"I thought Enid liked us!" she sighed,
But now it appears,
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Poor Bets - she just sat down and cried,
"I thought Enid liked us!" she sighed,
But now it appears,
After all these years,
'Go down to the side-shows by the river this afternoon. I'll meet you somewhere in disguise. Bet you won't know me!' wrote Fatty.

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Poor Bets - she just sat down and cried,
"I thought Enid liked us!" she sighed,
But now it appears,
After all these years,
She wishes the Find-Outers had died!
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Oh dear - what a sad ending!
'Tis loving and giving that makes life worth living.

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I know, but I was trying to think what rhymes with "cried" and "sighed" and I'm afraid that "died" is what I came up with. :(
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Well, who knows — maybe Enid might have secretly wished she could kill off all her famous characters and just have a nice peaceful retirement, but of course the fans (and the publishers) would never have let her?? :wink: Only kidding, but the thought does remind me of Arthur Conan Doyle trying to finish off his series with the death of Sherlock Holmes, which of course was greeted with such outrage that he ended up having to resurrect him...
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All right....

"We're immortal!" said Larry, "Don't cry!"
'Tis loving and giving that makes life worth living.

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Courtenay wrote:Well, who knows — maybe Enid might have secretly wished she could kill off all her famous characters and just have a nice peaceful retirement, but of course the fans (and the publishers) would never have let her?? :wink: Only kidding, but the thought does remind me of Arthur Conan Doyle trying to finish off his series with the death of Sherlock Holmes, which of course was greeted with such outrage that he ended up having to resurrect him...
To tell the truth, that's what inspired me to suggest it was Enid! Maybe she got fed up of Fatty! ;-)
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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"We're immortal!" said Larry, "Don't cry!"
"We'll jump right back in by and by",
"What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd. To have no job, to devote ones life to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. - Cicero

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