Limerick: The Mallard

Limerick: The Mallard

by Michael R. Burch

The mallard is a fellow

whose lips are long and yellow

with which he, honking, kisses

his bawdy, boisterous mistress;

my pond's their loud bordello!

Keywords/Tags: limerick, light poetry, light verse, nonsense verse, humor, humorous, animal, animals, nature, ducks, love, sex, desire, passion, Lothario, mistress, noise, copulation, doing it

A more serious limerick:

The Abandoned Child’s Complaint
by Michael R. Burch

I hoped you might have loved me,
but you pushed me out to sea
   like Moses, for some other
   strange Egyptian mother:
Isis, Nefertiti.