Lovely Limerick

Speak Softly

To complain and demand is absurd,

without first considering your words.

Try courtesy first

before things get worse;

you should not have to hurt to be heard

{Tom Fonseca}

These are good words to remember...

I have just handed in 2 essays today - one of them on limericks and sonnets. Limericks are nearly always funny and crude. This one makes me laugh:

There was a young man from Peru,

Who had nothing whatever to do;

So he took out his carrot

And buggered his parrot,

And sent the result to the zoo.

The sonnet I worked on was Shakespears Sonnet 116, which I also read at my bro Paul and Sharon's wedding a couple of weeks ago:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediements, Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no, it is an ever fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the wandering star to every wand'ring barque,

Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.

Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

but bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Oh my, I DO love words. Words and colours inspire me - i'm so happy studying what i am.