Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a limerick? These silly poems make a really fun writing exercise. Limericks are a fun and timeless way to tell short, ...

May 12 (UPI) --National Limerick Day, celebrated annually on May 12, marks the birthday of Edward Lear, the English writer who popularized the comedic style of poetry. The holiday's exact origins are ...

I received this limerick in The Style Invitational’s Limerixicon contest, Week 1502. It’s pretty good — rhymes well, scans well — but like hundreds of other pretty good limericks I received, it didn’t ...

Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by the overwhelming response to the Star Tribune's limerick contest, held in celebration of National Poetry Month in April. After all, during a limerick craze in ...

As we have every August since 2004, when his life’s work was a wee little dictionary-baby, we check in once again with limerick impresario Chris Strolin and his quest to create a full English ...