The great Aussie bonsai limerick competition

[Chris]

okay ive had enough time so here it is

1
so tiny and fine they looks so devine

i dug this one up it was 6 foot 3

now ive turned this into a small ausbonsai tree

i pruned it and trimed it now i look at it with glee

for now i have turned this 6 foot 3 into a beutiful bonsai tree

2
i looked to the sun and then with glee

i saw a potential bonsai tree

i dug and i dug my freinds thought i was a mug

they sent to ausbonsai to see

whether this mamath tree was worthy of me

3
i was feeling so lost

my brain was a frost

then i found that ausbonsai was for me

there is nothing more beautiful

than a small bonsai tree

4
a bee i watched in a small fruit tree

the branches where as twisted as could be

thanks to ausbonsai i saw it's beauty

and turned it into a beautiful bonsai tree

now it is a pride for me and won me a pot and in it i put that fruit tree

[AnneK]

Hi Guys,

Just couldn't miss this aspect, I know many to whom this will relate.

What can I do? It's so very appealing,
as usual the other-half's squealing!
"Surely you don't need another?
Already the whole garden they cover!
We graciously bargain and compromise well,
My ten in the corner; I've just got to sell!

Great fun. Keep working on it. And many thanks to Melaquin for her copius notes re the School's Summit.

Regards, AnneK.

[Emoska]

A contest of lyrical artistry,
For the clique of Ausbonsai's community,
With a prized pot and beech,
Within each member's reach,
This challenge is bound to get dirty!

[tanglefoot]

Good to see lots of poetry out there. To be true to the limerick however, the general rule of thumb is.....

# five lines of poetry, where the first two lines rhyme, and also rhyme with the last line (preferably these first two lines and the last line are all the same length)
# the middle two lines rhyme with each other, and are both shorter (preferably both the same length)

And like a lot of people say with bonsai....once you learn the rules....then you can break them (but you break them with style, and in the background, the good solid bones of the limerick (or bonsai) are apparent still)

eg

A good looking bonsaist named Dick
Had a very impressive big (yes...stick)
he thought it would grow
He watered it, you know
But Richard, it turns out, was thick

[Spinner]

My tears arrived thick and fast
As Tangles' aspersions were cast,
Now I've practised my grin
But imagine the chagrin
Of finding that grins do not last.

Spinner

[tanglefoot]

Very good Spinner! Not just a pretty face then....latent rhyming is bubbling to the fore....

The limericks have been put in a spin
By some fella, practicing a grin
I say, "Cor blimey
He's taking off Stymie
I aint never heard such a thing!"

[lindsay farr]

yama momiji nebari thats wabi
shishigashira shari jin that's sabi
Tok-o-nama pot
bears the hanko of Ono
please bear with me while I slip on my kimono

[Pat K]

Young Will has sought to inspire
The bards of AusBonsai entire
We struggle with rhyme
And metre and line
For a prize that some may desire.

pk

[Emoska]

A hundred 'n nine trees in Bill's pen,
"The limit's at fifty!" he'd said,
Then one day at the outlet,
He spotted a Privet,
Now his collection’s one hundred and ten!

[tanglefoot]

Some folks like thick trunks on their tree
More solid, couldn't possibly be
But I must say at best
I find some grotesque
It's something more sylph-like for me!

[Webos]

T'was walking my dog and fell over,
On a short fat and stumpy Zelkova
With a twinkle in my eye
I ran home and I
returned riding 'pon my bulldozer

(No animals or Bonsai were harmed in the making of this Limerick)

[Petra]

SOME OF US CAN RELATE...

HERE GOES.

AS YA FIND THAT TREE...
THE ONE, THAT ONE, THAT IS FREEEEE,
YA STRADLE THE FENCE...
& FINALLY GET OVER...
ONCE FREED FROM BARBED, WI, I RE ,
AND JUST, AS YA GET NEAR...
LOOK OUT!
HERE COMES ROVER!

TWASNT ME, HEEE,HEEE!

[tanglefoot]

A salutary lesson here, with the tale of three bonsaists (real names have been avoided to protect the unsuspecting).
Urban myth? Who knows....................

For Bruce, bonsai was life
in the zone.....he wanted no strife
But he was at it so long
Somehow things just went wrong
Now he's looking for another good wife!

Whereas Rodney, it seems, has a plan
He bonsai's as much as he can
Even though it enthralls
He knows thats not all
He's the well balanced, considerate man!

Now Luke, he was careful.....he knew
He snuck off, bonsaid elsewhere, stayed true
But one day a surprise
Couldn't believe in his eyes
'Cause his wife was off bonsaing too!

[EdwardH]

Hey Steve, limerick away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ausbonsai is a site we know
That bonsai nuts are want to go
We surfed the net
Then said what the heck
This site's the way to go

Yeh, I know it's corny but ain't that the the idea?

[EdwardH]

Ray is a man I admire
To his level do I aspire
He grows bonsai aplenty
He also sells plenty
Yet mine are stuck in the mire