Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

Excellent idea. I will certainly be hitting this thread with some of my own limerick stylings. I'm assuming it will be permissible to be loose with the technical aspects of the form. Limericks are notoriously difficult to write formally because of the traditional use of anapestic or amphibrachic* meter on top of its legendary rhyming scheme (a-a-b-b-a)....But this is getting highly formal and traditional. The key is to at least maintain the rhyming pattern. Of course, maintaining the traditional levity helps too.
/poetry nerd