April

• Limerick

  • A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA. Edward Lear, who popularized the form, fused the third and fourth lines into a single line with internal rhyme. Limericks are traditionally bawdy or just irreverent
  • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=175025
  • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171641
• No pornography
• No profanity

Sponsor(s): Jonathan Moore

Judge(s): TBD

Objectives: Expand your poetry range

Subject matter: Open

How Judged: Adherence to the rules, creativity