May 2026 Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of May 2026.

Song To Our Prince

Our fine prince is a wonderful guy.
When he walks all the ladies say, “Hi!”
All the dragons do, too,
as he walks through the zoo.
What a wonderfully wonderful guy.

Prompt word: “prince” May 4, 2026

With a bang it was sent to the sky and it popped when it got very high.

Clean Limerick

He’s pretentiously, pompously clean
except when his rhymes are obscene,
but he’s doing his best,
so he said, then confessed
that his best is much better unseen.

Prompt word: “clean” May 11, 2026

Well, it sparkled a bit and we all enjoyed it.

Bliss In Spite Of Warning

Diving deep in delusion he goes.
You might warn him, but waters now close
and who knows where he’ll be
when a kiss sets him free
as the bliss of eternity grows.

Prompt word: “warn” May 18, 2026

Then the next one buzzed up through the sky.

Heat It Up

Though I thought it was hot it was not,
since the heat got much hotter. I got
a fine thought for a verse
(not a whiny, cold curse)
as the heat got much worse than just hot.

Prompt word: “heat” May 25, 2026

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking For Shade

Dale offers the prompt “looking for shade” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I went under a shady tunnel a few days ago.

It was kind of spooky, but I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

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It looks like there is shade in this tunnel under the road.
Rather colorful. I guess the kids (hopefully not the adults) have been busy.
Enough shade. Time to continue my walk.

Six Sentence Story: Books

While browsing through a book store Joe realized that no one in his right mind buys a real book made out of ink on paper anymore since computers have stored everything and they can even regurgitate anything of value in that book in a few seconds. He left the store empty handed.

His next stop was a new restaurant in a new mall where he planned to meet a friend realizing that no computer (no matter how steam-powered quantum it was) could regurgitate for him the food he was about to eat. Unfortunately, his friend called saying he would be an hour late which left Joe to wander the strange mall till his friend arrived.

Just behind the restaurant Joe found a huge book store which also sold t-shirts, toys and coffee mugs (just in case you realized that no one in his right mind buys books anymore). As he glanced through the shelves there it was, a book, a real book with ink on paper which seemed to say Buy Me! Buy Me! Buy Me!, and so, rejoicing like one watching the dawning of a new morning, Joe bought it.

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Denise offers the prompt word “steam” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Trail: Little Sugar Creek Greenway

This walk was on the southern end of the Little Sugar Creek Greenway that goes through Charlotte, North Carolina.

It is a very easy walk. On a scale of 1 to 10, from easy to hard, this trail would score 0. The trail is wide and paved and great for a bicycle.

Posted for Pepper’s One Step at a Time.

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Wide, two-lane trail for bicycles with Little Sugar Creek to the left.
A wetland area attached to the Little Sugar Creek.
Fluffy seeds along the trail

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Dale offers the prompt “symmetry” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

One of the places where I watched sunsets in southern Florida has a shiny wall blocking a residence from the park.

If I stood near the wall I could see the setting sun. This allowed me to put two sunsets in the photo.

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Two sunsets!
Two skylines!
One reflected sunset.