[Martin Rocek]

It opens with ticking and tocking;
the scene with the glass shard is shocking.
The rooms are all red,
it ends with one dead,
there's screaming and whispering and talking.

(I think like rhymes are OK in L1 and L5 of a limerick; am I wrong?)

[ChrisGeorge]

Two lovers on an ocean liner rapidly going down
-- it's a James Cameron epic -- will they drown?
It's bound to be a success,
and to be chock full of excess.
Time to weep, my sweeties -- this boat is gone.

[Martin Rocek]

This great director hasn't been represented yet; this is just a weak first attempt:

The statue lay on the floor
She wondered who it was for.
A stooge or a star?
Her search took her far--
His son would even the score.

[Marion Shore]

Martin,

"Cries and Whispers". Creepy downer of a film, in my not so humble. Even for Bergman.

George, my heart would sink if I didn't get yours.

I'm stumped by the sheep. Pull the wool from my eyes.

Marion

P.S. I think tocking and talking is fine. Limericks after all are allowed to use the same rhyme word for first and last line. So this is close enough. Besides, I don't think there are that many limerick purists who are going to quibble with it. Although you never know.

[Ann Drysdale]

Marion - I thought the sheep and the swordsman were in Far from the Madding Crowd. I did a sort of slantwise suggestion and Martin didn't say yes or no - but I really could do two-and-a-bit Swaledale ewes in Gabriel Oak's "thrree and twenty minutes and a half".

[Marion Shore]

Two lovers on a journey pelagic,
in a tale that is ancient and tragic,
swear eternal devotion
though they don't drink a potion,
for the screenwriters took out the magic.

[Marion Shore]

Ay! We had to start this up again?


A big pooch and a scruffy young man,
with three friends and a mystery van,
run from monster and ghost
till it looks like they're toast,
but the ghouls are unmasked in the end.

[Martin Rocek]

Here is one for the true cinephiles; it was shown only at festivals, though it is
now available on youtube:

Buster returned from retirement
to help with Sam's little experiment:
"Just what did I do?
I don't have a clue--
but knowing was not a requirement."

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Marion Shore

P.S. I think tocking and talking is fine. Limericks after all are allowed to use the same rhyme word for first and last line. So this is close enough. Besides, I don't think there are that many limerick purists who are going to quibble with it. Although you never know.

Marion,

As a limerick purist, allow me to quibble.

[Jerome Betts]

I have to second that, Marion. Who wants to play tennis with a drooping net? I'm not a fan of the bearded ones cop-out last lines. Even his nursey rhyme model 'There was a sick man of Tobago' managed three rhymes