A Limerick Poem by Mahfooz Ali

A Limerick

Rating: 2.3


Poetry inspired me early on.
A quirky only child,
I spent a fair amount of time reading alone
in my pale blue bedroom
or in a wooden playhouse in my backyard.
I wasn’t entirely antisocial,
but found many of my best friends
in a parallel universe of words
occupying a small bookshelf in my closet.
And while I never considered myself a poet,
I composed silly limericks
while the neighbourhood kids played dodge ball.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sylva Onyema Uba 20 April 2018

Poetry inspired me. Beautiful words.

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Anjali Sinha 16 January 2009

As Shahid rightly said your poem is not a limerick A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1,2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming whatever it was fine anjali

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Mahfooz Ali

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Lucknow (U.P.) India
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