Limericks - write your own about books, plays, stories or movies.
(This exercise is repeated on my Lifestyle site: http://www.freewebs.com/catsurfer )
I set a friend a challenge: to devise a limerick about a book. As a start I gave him one of my own based on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde
Here it is:
A pretty young maid from Broome
Took a young man named Jekyl for her groom,
She got quite a fright
When later that night
He siad, I'm just going to Hyde in our room.
The idea is to take a book, story or play and devise a limerick that more or less sums up the story or relates directly to it. All I ask is that they are not rude, crude and relate to books, plays, stories or poems. I prefer that TV be excluded although I will accept radio, musicals and movies.
So, I had this one from David Smith who managed to squeeze four hours of magnificent drama into five lines. As the Bard said: the rest is silence.
There was a young prince, a Dane,
Whose Dad died but came back again.
His uncle usurped,
A skull was unearthed,
And Laertes fenced him in vain.
So, I choseThe Lord of the Rings for my next one.
Young Frodo and Sam one day
Walked one heck of a way,
Said Sauron the Dark,
I don't like this lark,
When Frodo and Gollum threw his best ring away