For the last few years I have been writing a couple of light-hearted limericks on a biblical theme for each issue of 197 magazine*, published quarterly by St James’s Church Piccadilly. So as a Christmas treat (tweet?) I tweeted one from this month’s issue, tweaked to fit 140 characters:
To Bethlehem travel 3 kings/
Each one with a present he brings/
Myrrh, frankincense, gold/
(All stocks having sold/
Of suitable seasonal things).
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{In the original, the last two lines ran:
(The shops having sold/
Their stocks of more practical things).
which sounds about the same length, but is in fact significantly longer.}
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I’m indebted to @jadeserotica for pointing out that the carol We Three Kings of Orient Are in fact already has a limerick structure – the metre is slightly different, but it does also rhyme AABBA (are/far/leading/proceeding/star).
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MICK TWISTER!
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