1. I once knew a frau from Berlin,
A beauty with soft, creamy skin.
Her breasts would delight,
Her thighs were a sight,
But her breath caused a kick in the shin!

2. Martha Dodd spent her youth in Berlin
She had vices: among them were gin
And men-- hotsie-totsies,
Cute Bolshies and Nazis;
Hid in Prague 'til old age for her sin

3. Once made love to a girl from Berlin,
Though we both thought it might be a sin.
As iI gave her my shaft,
In the fore and the aft,
"Any time that you're ready, begin."

4. Fraülein Schweinchen's my gal in Berlin
She has three curly hairs on her chin
When you meet her, have pity--
Do just tell her she's pretty
(though you may if you must, dear sir, grin.)

5. A brazenly bad boy from Berlin
Gradually drew his good girl in,
After regularly failing
He soon had her wailing,
When he probed the place with her pearl in.

6. They claim that old Weimar Berlin
Was rife with peculiar sin
But that generation
Was just veneratin'
Their folks: all the royals were kin

Question:
Please vote for your favorite

Choices:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six

 

How's about a few more votes people? So far we have a 3-way tie!

I just voted but clearly I didn't help the situation

Well, at least we have one limerick (#4) that is in the lead.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,

I'm guessing you've gotten all the votes you're going to get....

BTW....it's probably inappropriate for me to make a post off topic, but if you ever wondered how long the standard distance of a "chain" was, you can look it up on OEDILF here at limerick #82350

Any more votes? Non-limerickers? Anybody?

Ok I'll wrap this up shortly.

#1, the sensual yet kicky offering by Kalleh, though well-metred & -rhymed, garnered nur einer vote, a fate shared by most.

#2 tho oh-so-cute shared the same fate (one of mine).

#3 also gained a vote, acknowledging classic bawdy-limned style. We expect no less from Proofreader.

#4 by yours truly won the tie-breaking vote, apparently applying just the right note of random silliness for somebody.

#5 by Greg S, also classically bawdy, would no doubt have scored a vote had the metre in ll. 1-2 parsed better.

#6, an entirely unnecessary third entry by bethree5 succeeded in stealing a vote.

I hereby request that one of our many runners- up assume the mantle as I will be distracted by end-of-vacation packing driving et al in the coming week. Do we have a volunteer for locating, collecting & polling the next round?

Greg, how's about it? We'd love another Australian city!

But I was the only non-runner-up in the contest - every limerick except mine got a vote and you want me to run the next contest?

Well, that's okay. I love your cities!

Well OK then!

New game up and running