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(Just Because)

                                     LIKE A PEAR, YET...

                                   A man named Enrique Delgado

                                   Stepped forward with boisterous bravado.

                                   "A fruit! Such as never been seen!

                                   Like a pear, yet rippled and green...

                                   Try it now in your crisp green salad-o!"

                                   And thus was born the great avocado.

         WHAT THE GNOMES EXCELLED AT

In Ireland, the Gnomes known as Glimericks

Excelled at grammatical fiddle-sticks.

With humor and rhyme,

And a clever last line,

They invented what we know as Limericks.

(You saw that one coming, didn't you?)

WHAT POPPED UP?

The great Queen LaSnordia Snickle,

In a moment both fancy and fickle,

Poked a pepper in the ground,

Sprinkled sugar-spice all around...

What popped up? The first mini-pickle!

         GREGORIO, THE BAKER

         WHO PRESSED TWO COOKIES INTO ONE

The baker Gregustine Gregorio,

Was having a day most bore-e-o.

'Til he pressed two cookies into one,

Added a cream filling just for fun,

And called his new cookie a Goreo.

(NOTE: Centuries later, with the dawn of more creative and refined cookie making, his great, great grand daughter, Benadeen Fipps Orson, changed the name to Oreo. However, this explanation has become so long and bore-e-o, I think I'm starting to snore-e-o.)

                          WHERE NOT TO LAY YOUR HEAD

                      A cowboy from the old town of Willow,

                      Laid his head on an old armadillo.

                      The dillo jumped and fled,

                      The cowboy bumped his head,

                      Then a tumbleweed rolled up,

                      And the cowboy said, "Yup!"

                      And laid his head on the first Texas pillow.

CIRCLING

If my life is simply a boat,

And this world the river I float,

Please, navigate my way,

So on course, I will stay, 

Circling the castle in Your mighty moat.

              OILING THE WORD-GEARS

     We players-in-words should always be learning,

     Yet sometimes we tire from the task of word-churning.

     But these poems, one by one,

     Can make word-exercise fun,

     Limericks are the oil that keeps the gears turning.

         ON THIS FOOD-FACT

         (ALMOST) EVERYONE AGREES

A certain kind of food is certain to please.

Inhale of its odor? You're most certain to sneeze.

And all the names we call it are so easy to tease.

The names can be longer than a factory mile,

Hear how they sound and you'll certainly smile.

Even the photographer smiles when he says, "Say cheese!"

                      FISHED IN BY A FROG

                 I have not always been a fan of the puppets.

                 I used to think they were floppity fluppets.

                 So why write this in my blog?

                 My mind was changed by a frog.

                 I was hooked when I first saw The Muppets.

                               GUNN'S GUIDE TO SPINNING A YARN

                               (OR LINING UP A LIMERICK)

                           The Limerick Professor Truman Gunn,

                           Says, "This is how a limerick is spun.

                           Two lines set the trick,

                           Two lines go by quick,

                           The last line's the punch and you're done."

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