If I must write a poem with a rhyme scheme, I must say that I love a good limerick. Maybe it's because of my Irish background (some people believe the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from Limerick, Ireland in the 1700s) but I suspect it's mostly because of the fun, funny, and lighthearted nature of this particular style of poem.
A limerick is a five-lined, beat-centric poem with one couplet and one triplet in the rhyme scheme of a, a, b, b, a. They generally contain hyperbole, puns, and onomatopoeia (which happens to be one of my favorite words in the English language along with the words "shenanigans," "juggernaut" and "snafu") with the last line being the punchline of the poem.
I love this fun type of poem so much, in fact, that as a supervisor at Starbucks, I wrote a limerick for every one of the colleagues I worked with within a two-week period (give me a break; I got bored there a lot). I wrote my favorite limerick for my colleague Lionel, who would sometimes come to work with a Red Bull because espresso just didn't do the trick, and would drive me nuts bouncing off the walls:
There once was a boy named Lionel
Who if I could I would sell
For when his belly is full
With a venti Red Bull
I swear to God I'm in hell.
But for this post, I wanted to write a new one because I'm sitting on the couch looking at great inspiration: Chloe
Whenever Chlo falls asleep
I always hear more than a peep.
It always seems
Squirrels rule her dreams
Scaring her from her deep sleep.
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