Wordle Limericks for the Month
April: 597 NINTH 6 February 2023
When Beethoven composed his ninth symphonyHe had an interesting epiphanyHe would use a vocal chorusSo his music would not bore usIt’s now the best example of polyphony* It is the last half of the ninth inningAnd the Pittsburgh Pirates are winningBabe Ruth is up to...
March: 587 WORRY 27 January 2023
The discoverer of radium Madame Curie* Two Nobels reflect the favor she did curry From radiation she never did hide So from leukemia she died About exposure risk she never did worry What me worry is an Alfred E Neuman* quote Its intended purpose Mad Comics to promote...
February: 453 DOUBT 15 September 2022
1Why is it that you doubtThat I love Guinness StoutI know it seems queerI’ll never again drink beerIn abstention AA* members are devout(My love for it remains even without) 2I still have my moments of doubtSomething I never talk aboutFor to quote Robert Frost* A road...
January: 1262 GUILE 2 December 2024
Photo by Angelica Kauffmann/ Wikimedia Commons I know a Russian by the name of MikhailWho is always so full of guile*He is never hostileAnd will always smileBeware his cajolery and wile*(He will surreptitiously corrupt and defile) I am beguiled by Alice’s smileI have...
December: 936 BRIEF 11 January 2024
Photo by Rahel R My underwear is called a briefIn Genesis to my disbeliefIn the Garden of EdenThere was no winter seasonSo Adam and Eve wore just a fig leaf His words are concise and briefBiting with a folksy motifSenator John Neely KennedyHis quotes are a...
November: 25 COLON 14 July 2021
Photo by Elijah O'Donnell An anxious man named NolanSuffered from an irritable colonWhenever he ate glutenHe couldn’t stop tootin’As he had only a semicolon
October: 891 TAWNY 27 November 2023
Photo by Leon Aschemann When Pablo Picaso* saw meHe desperately wanted to draw meHis main interest was pubicHe painted me cubic With hair both exuberant and tawny(He was incredibly horny) The male lion was big and brawnyHis mane was lush and tawnyYet he never...
September: 1115 SHAPE 8 July 2024
Photo by Wojtek Pacześ It is impossible for me to escapeMy congenital rotund shapeWith which I was bornOh it makes me forlornI wish I was not a grape When they pluck me from my treeAnd squeeze the hell out of meMy shape will become flatI’ll be placed into a vatSoon...
August: 1091 VAULT 14 June 2024
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio If you check your vault of heaven chart*You can predict how your day will startVedic astrologyUsing questionable psychologyCan predict when you’re going to fart To great heights he has soaredThe highest pole vault on recordHeld by Mondo...
July: 710 KNEEL May 30 2023
Photo by Ivan Dražić Sir Lancelot kneeled before his kingTo be knighted what a wonderful thingBut King Arthur was unawareThat his wife sweet GwenivereWith Lancelot was having a fling When God created the snake and eelHe intended that they never kneelBut always slither...