Pink bow

by amber lee

Published February 10, 2007

There once was a girl from Timbuckmow
All of her blue, except her big toe
She woke in the night
Shivering with fright
To discover that her big toe had a pink bow

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BFG wrote a review Review · Feb 14, 2007

Limericks really have to be very witty, and this one is just nonsensical. For a nonsense poem it's fine, but for anything else it just sounds silly. It would be a good one to read aloud to young kids, though - they'd find it really funny. The last line has two too many syllables, and that should be changed regardless of whether it's meant to be just for fun (I'm quite sure it is) or not.

carelessaussie13 wrote a review Review · Feb 14, 2007

um. . .either this poem has some deep (very deep) meaning or I'm stupid.
No offense, this poem sounds like something a third grader wrote when his teacher said "write a poem with five lines." It is nonsence, but not particularly funny nonsence. I know I sound like Incandescence here, but its probably better to scratch this.



The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices; to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicions can destroy. A thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own.
— Rod Serling, Twilight Zone