Every Poem Needs A Twist comic poem 446 by Angela Lansbury

Every poem needs a twist

Each, novel, joke and story

Add a line which can't be missed

But's recalled. brings you glory

You can have a twist at birth

Boy or girl, or black or white

Extra limbs or missing some

Intersex, hermaphrodite

Masks and foreign places. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

You must have a twisted death

In a foreign and strange place

Die with jokes, a wake with mirth

Or a mask ripped off a face

Wedding cakes which make all ill

Lawyers never send the bill

Shroud of rainbows, ribbons frills

Give lots to me in your wills.

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Soup Trick Limerick

There was a girl from Guadalupe
Who made the most delicious soup
She fed it to the local troops
So they were always cock-a-hoop
When they saw the girl from Guadalupe.

The proper way to write a hit limerick

Is to make the first line like the last

If you want to be read, repeated and heard

You need to observe how to order the words

The proper way to write a hit limerick.

You are never too tired, or busy, or sick
To spend a second on a limerick

It can hit heavy, wrong, long, like a dropped brick

Yet impress 'cause it's witty, often done slickly

Like life, love, and soup, short, over too quickly.

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Inspired by the word Guadalupe, a city in Mexico.
Angela Lansbury, copyright Wed Aug 28 2019.

Revised with two extra verses 27 November 2021

The word trick in the title is ambiguous. A trick is both a deceit and a clever, quick, successful action.