The Whole of the Moon

Posted on December 3, 2017 by

Today as of late afternoon/

The perigee proved opportune/

Tonight what was present/

Was not just the crescent/

For you saw the whole of the moon.///

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My jumping off point for this one was this song by The Water Boys, the key line of which near as dammit fits a limerick metre. Story below.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42211288

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About twitmericks

There is an old fellow called Mick/Who's been penning the odd limerick/I admit he's no Keats/But he does them in tweets/So to follow, you just have to click. https://twitter.com/#!/twitmericks "The limerick master of the twitterati" (The Guardian).
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One Response to The Whole of the Moon

  1. Jonathan Caswell says:
    December 4, 2017 at 12:17 am

    Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
    GLORIOUS SUBJECT—SUPERB LIMERICK–HEAVENLY POST!!! LOVE IT ALL. 😀

    Reply

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