Road Trip Wednesday: Limericks

By Rachel | Published: 17 March 2010

In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, YA Highway wants us to all write a limerick about our favorite books and/or works in progress.

Holy commas! This one was hard. Apparently I have lost my touch since my stellar Freshman-Year-English-Class limerick. Of course, my determination to write one for both a WIP and my favorite book didn’t make the task any easier.

Are you ready? (I don’t think you really are.) Here we go…

Crime & Punishment:

He thought he could kill without guilt
Now the house of cards that he built
is starting to fall.
Now only a call
girl can help him to fix the tilt.

Jack the Reaper

There once was a girl named Jack
whose family was kind of wack.
They’d get orders to kill
and they’d have to fulfill,
’cause reapers aren’t cut any slack.

There you have it; my mad limerick skillz at work. Want to join in the fun? Head over to YA Highway and share a limerick of your own.

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15 Comments

  1. Glenna
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Oooh! Love Darken’s. Mad limerick skillz. (:

    Reply
  2. Kate
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:00 pm | Permalink

    Whoa– Crime and Punishment + limerick = hardcore dedication to RTW! LOL

    Reply
    • Rachel
      Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

      Yeah, about halfway through writing that one I started to wonder what I had gotten myself into, but I couldn’t stop once I started!

      Reply
  3. YA Highway
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for participating! love the DARKEN one.

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  4. Abby Stevens
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:32 pm | Permalink

    Okay, I already wanted to read Jack the Reaper, but now your limerick has reminded me how much I like the premise and I want to read it even more! :-)

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    • Rachel
      Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:39 pm | Permalink

      That makes me unbelievably happy to hear. It also reminds me that while I was originally writing one for DARKEN, I changed to JACK in the end…I should probably fix the title and link. :)

      Reply
  5. Kaitlin
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

    These were great! I love the call (line break) girl. Creatively placed hehe.

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    • Rachel
      Posted 17 March 2010 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

      Thanks! I struggled so hard trying to make that one work out.

      Reply
  6. LIlah Pierce
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 5:48 pm | Permalink

    I like the Jack one. It makes me want to read the story. (Enter crossed arms and impatient foot tapping here.)

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    • Rachel
      Posted 17 March 2010 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

      *blushes* Okay, okay…I will hurry. Um, as much as I can at least.

      Reply
  7. What a fine lass
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 8:16 pm | Permalink

    There once was a Lady of Bateman
    Who wouldn’t abide by a late man.
    She laughed with a grin
    And smote on his chin
    Singing “Whup-ass is truly a great can.”

    Not exactly faithful to memory, but you get the picture ;)

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    • Rachel
      Posted 17 March 2010 at 10:11 pm | Permalink

      Ha! That made me laugh SO hard. Way to go, buddy. And happy birthday again!

      Reply
  8. Michelle
    Posted 17 March 2010 at 8:58 pm | Permalink

    Wow – seriously good job! These are fantastic!

    Reply
  9. Tahereh
    Posted 18 March 2010 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    nice!!! C&P!!

    loves me some dostoevsky.

    Reply

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