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Limerick № 32078

A Short Letter

by Ranger

Member since 2002 · Posted 27 Dec 2002 · 18 comments

Today a note came through my door From a friend I've know since long before She said "let us not fight For that would not be right Yours truly now and for evermore" I puzzled it through in my head Thrice more its contents I read I endeavoured to try To write in reply "I don't hate you but love you instead" I wish I were Byron or Chaucer But I would not want words to force her Lest we should forget What it means to regret For at night these words seem so much coarser

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18 comments

[8] Bachus 27-Dec-02/3:33 PM Reply
indeed.
[9] rockinindividual 27-Dec-02/4:11 PM Reply
'for at night these words seem so much coarser'...totally true...9
[8] wOrnella Mutiw 27-Dec-02/7:54 PM Reply
this reminds me of my college crush...Alfred Magnanimi...a short, stocky, blue-eyed, Italian stallion....man I loved that kid...his ideas of saying I love you was I hate you....ahhhhhh...going down memory lane.......anyway good read...8
[7] <~> 28-Dec-02/12:07 AM Reply
no way. they seem smooth at night. in the morning is when you brainsmack yourself and groan, jeez, what was i thinkin'?
you were drinkin' not thinkin', my friend.
that being said, this is sweetly done.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 29-Dec-02/4:36 PM Reply
You wish you were Chaucer? Have you ever read Chaucer? The buggere can't spelle to save his life!!!!!!!11 lol! lmao! rotfl! HYUK HYUK! asl?
[n/a] Ranger › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 29-Dec-02/4:45 PM Reply
Fuck yeah
[7] scitz 30-Dec-02/4:31 AM Reply
undemanding ditty, this rocked my cradle gently (7) farewell rangerdude
[10] -=SeTTle=- 3-Jan-03/6:03 PM Reply
The rhyme of Chaucer and force her made me laugh, which is saying a lot. Good work. But I still have to nullify you (get it?) Zero.e
[n/a] Ranger › -=SeTTle=- 4-Jan-03/5:04 AM Reply
Why, oh why must you nullify me?
[10] -=SeTTle=- 4-Jan-03/1:08 PM Reply
OKay, the joke was that you asked me to stop anonymously voting zeroes. So I came and voted zeroes but not anonymously. GET IT?? 10.
[n/a] cleverdevice 6-Jan-03/8:00 AM Reply
I hate self righteous holier-tha-thou people too. Especially the pope. Cummon, he jacked off as a kid too. U'd better believe it.
[10] poemwanker 11-Jan-03/6:35 AM Reply
Fuck. Face.
Butt. Munch.
[9] Robert K Foster 15-Jan-03/9:45 AM Reply
nit witty, but succinct. bravo.
[7] Shardik 4-Feb-03/1:28 PM Reply
Wasn't Byron lame and portly? Don't get me started on Chaucer.
[8] Bhaskaryya 28-Dec-04/10:36 PM Reply
Pretty nice!!
[9] Glasseyez 9-Feb-06/9:23 PM Reply
9
[8] LilMsLadyPoet 3-Mar-06/8:46 AM Reply
I liked this right up till "so much coarser"!
The rythm is a simplistic one, the rhymes predictable, but it's good, anyway! I would respectfully suggest a fitting ending, that would do this justice.
[9] BenRice 9-Mar-06/1:13 PM Reply
I tripped over some extra syllables on some lines. Felt a bit awkward for a limerick.

At first I thought, "Byron or Chaucer"? Why not choose authors who used the limerick? But then, the speaker isn't wishing he were a limerick writer - he's wishing he were more eloquent than the simple limerick.