Limericks about There Once Was a Limerick Anthology

One of the most touching reactions I’ve ever witnessed as an author and editor is that There Once Was a Limerick Anthology has inspired readers to write limericks about the book! Since the anthology was published by Dover Publications in 2022, people I’ve never met have shared their original limericks in emails to Dover and me as well as in online reviews. I genuinely adore limericks; this wasn’t just a one-off project. Having readers get in on the fun has been heartwarming.

Enjoy these limericks about There Once Was a Limerick Anthology! Thank you to the readers who wrote a limerick (or two!) and gave permission to share them.

I sure liked this limerick collection
There are gems in each little section
   A five-star review
   Is the least I could do
You should buy it and do an inspection
—Zack Fresco, five-star Amazon review

Thank you for this compilation
I enjoyed its whole duration
   You left out two
   I'll share with you
to include in your next publication
—Zack Fresco, upon sharing two limericks via email

There once was a lim'rick anthology
Which charted the verse's chronology.
   The sequel, perhaps
   Will look at mind-maps
Of their writers and common phrenology?
—Doug Harris, the world's leading collector of limerick books (aka the curator of the as-yet unfunded National Museum of Limerick Verse)

There once were some limericks in a book
that made you laugh when you had a look;
   sharing rhymes through the ages
   with limericks on all the pages,
'Twas quite a catalog the author undertook!
—Lanette Sweeney, author of What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir About Losing A Child to Addiction
 
There once was a limerick anthology
That wanted to tackle biology,
   But the readers, they said
   That the verses they read
Seemed more like a course in scatology.
—Martha McKinney