Thursday, August 23, 2018

235/365/Poetry and Form

In 2011, I headed to Bloomington for a fantastic five-day vacation, during which I toured sites related to my friend’s father (as well as the Kinsey Institute). In 2015, I headed to London because his musical was supposed to open, but he canceled it. Last week, I went back to Bloomington with Tim and my high-school-BFF-producer friend and her husband and we all stayed with Esther and we saw two of the four performances and were given a local tour by my friend, the Man Himself.

This is a preamble to two limericks, because I’ve had to attempt a few lately and I haven’t had time to write anything else (no pantoum for you!). Yesterday I sent them to my five friends as a thank you, because it really was a great trip. Here is the first.

1: The Thank-You Note

At Hoagy’s most kind invitation
we planned us a minivacation.
The divine Esther housed us.
The dancers aroused us.
Stardust Road was our path to elation!

8 comments:

  1. I agree. I honestly think you should put together a book of your limericks. Maybe it could be a coffee table-like (that's an en dash, not a hyphen, correct?) book with pictures to accompany each poem.

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    1. As most of my clients go with Webster's, and as an adjective coffee table is hyphenated, it would be coffee-table-like book, with first a hyphen, then an en dash, or, if the house liked -like closed up, one could go with coffee-tablelike book, with just the hyphen.

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    2. Aaacckkkk!!! (she screams as she lashes out violently at any punctuation within arm's reach.)

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  2. Ok limericks that are not ridiculous or dirty are so strange to me. And they are growing on me.

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  3. Agreeing with everyone above...but distracted, and rather frightened, by the hyphenation discussion! I certainly need an editor.

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  4. Oy, the hyphen lesson made me forget what the limerick said.

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