Hills & Hamlets Limerick Winner

The following limerick is in the copyrighted Hills & Hamlets magazine which circulates throughout the Williamson County, Tennessee, area, and particularly in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, a fabulously attractive village full of arts and crafts folk.

My poems took second place, but then I write second-place type poetry.

There once was a Knight of the Round

Who was a perfect incurable hound.

He chased women all night

And set dragons alight,

And said that his reason was sound!

If ever a time needed its humor, it is now; and Eugene Fields, Edgar Guest, and Ogden Nash made considerable contributions to their times by dwelling on the lighthearted aspects of life. No one, at the moment, really knows where the activity of Twittering is going. I find most of it incredibly boring and banal, especially banal, but perhaps Twittered poetry might improve the tone of things–or not.