It All Took A Long, Long Time.
There was a keen climber called Best
who scrambled up Mount Everest.
When he found lots of shells
he muttered "Hell's Bells!
There's no sea for miles, East or West."
Fossils of little sea creatures
are one of Mount Everest's features
and the White Cliffs of Dover
were once covered over
with ocean. (This limerick beats yours)(*)
Huge swathes of Yorkshire are white
'cos of shellfish that sank out of sight
at the end of their lives
and their children, and wives
to make limestone and pale Dolomite.
The Austrian Alps are the same
from under the waters they came.
While the continents rumbled
the dead shellfish tumbled -
pawns in the tectonic game
(*) Find me a better rhyme, dear Blogfriends!
(*)You won't find one coming from me, that's for sure!
ReplyDeleteReading this about shellfish and their children and wives sinking out of sight at the end of their lives to become pawns in the tectonic game gave me a brain freeze the way you get when you drink the richest chocolate milkshake!
No one is going to top you!
ReplyDeleteHow can a poem be so much fun, smart and educational - all at once?
Great fun!
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]
:-) That was fantastic.
ReplyDeleteYou've a grinning fan in Minneapolis,
Pearl
Fossils of little sea creatures
ReplyDeleteare one of Mount Everest's features
and the White Cliffs of Dover
were once covered over
with ocean that came up to greetcher ?
I tried-but I know you are the summa cum laude of limericks!
http://kathewsnapaday.blogspot.com/2011/06/photo-164-and-more.html
Clever, smart, funny and a puzzler too?
ReplyDelete"with ocean, say my teachers"...
I went through the whole alphabet, that's what a compulsive like me has to do!!
Kathe W and Lyn. You inspire me to rewrite the offending stanza to involve teachers/preachers or greet yas.
ReplyDeleteLyn . . going through the whole alphabet doesn't make you compulsive. Poets do it all the time.
No keep it. I like your limerick best. Thanks for the Friday giggles. x
ReplyDeleteheh heh - that was a fun read, I bobbed along nicely with it. The only rhyming word I can think of is 'bleachers' but I'm lost as to how it would fit in.....but I don't think it needs to...!
ReplyDeleteAs one fossil to another, I find this encouraging...
ReplyDeleteI learnt a lot:-)
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