Max, Jim M, Jim R. Many thanks for those thoughts and sincere thanks for your honesty. It is a short poem, quickly written and hard to judge how it works. I wanted to steer clear of sentimentality, but I didn’t intend it to be flippant. I meant it to be fond. The light, clunky rhymes seemed appropriate for this fluffy creature who spent most of his life asleep in the sun or tripping me up in the kitchen. He was my little daughter’s pet and the AA Milne nursery rhyme ending just felt right. But, as someone or other has wondered, is it possible to write a serious Limerick (let alone a tender one)?
Thanks again
Joe
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