Feb

14

Love Limerick

Posted by maureen

February 14, 2007 |

Valentines Day is the day to proclaim your love. Many will say it with flowers, some will say it with gifts and one or two foolhardy individuals will go against conventional wisdom and say it in a Limerick:

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There was a young man from England
With roots in a very Scottish clan
Who stole my heart
From the very start
And since then I’ve been his biggest fan

I left love notes in his school locker
Wow, he said what a shocker!
But you’ve no chance
He said with a glance
The love of my life is the great game of soccer!

No matter how many love notes were sent
This young man refused to relent
Until my flat chest
Grew big east & west
Along with all the other female equipment!

He started his career as a police cadet
The strong arm of the law he’d direct
He was strong and tall
With a big night stick and all
He vowed the citizens he would protect

We dated and then he asked me to wed
With a lace gown and veil upon my head
Dad plied him with drink
Gave me a wink
“We don’t want him getting cold feet”, he said

A change of career was in the works
He needed some of those high paying perks
Like food and clothes
And a car that goes
That’s just one of his little quirks!

The babies came with much bottom slapping
And a cigar and plenty of toe tapping
So now what’s the score?
One? Two? Three? Four!
He’d say tell me dear, how did that happen?

He worked hard so we moved us to the USA
Packed our bags without much delay
We won’t stay long
But 1978 has long gone
And we are still here on our two-year stay!

Now I’ll tell you living here was never a hard sell
With a great standard of living you can tell
We learnt to put on weight
And how to load a 48
And you could say our bodies are shot to hell!

The children all did their college courses
And fell in love, tis nature’s forces
Tuition took its toll
Weddings put us in the hole
And short of all our financial resources

The children and their spouses with seeds have sown
Eleven grandkids, my time sure has flown
They now can play
Without any delay
‘cause they have a soccer team all on their own!

We’ve had enough of work and clocking in
Now let us worry about viruses and logging in
We’ll Digg and Stumble around
For all the new posts to be found
And spend time together surfing and bloggin’

Given the chance to go back and do the same
When that schoolyard game of kiss chase came
Would you now realize
That I’d take the prize
And you’d need to run faster than in a soccer game!

To My Love


Comments

4 Comments so far

  1. Paul on February 14, 2007 1:05 pm

    Great poem!!! bravo, bravo. very touching too.

  2. Garry on February 21, 2007 11:19 am

    there is something familiar about that.

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