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September Limericks

All of these limericks were originally posted to Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick during the month of September. Some I have slightly modified. I’ve even added titles which I hear limericks aren’t supposed to need.

I’ve added two photos for those who prefer a picture to a thousand words of nonsense.

When Hell Freezes Over

With the spell came a chill from the well
like a frost from the fires of hell.
So, we capped it that day,
made the devils obey
which they did with no rights to rebel.

Prompt word: “spell” September 1, 2025 (modified)

The ocean is wavy and gray before start of a bright shiny day.

Just Buy A New Scale

The new scale I bought yesterday
has said what I feared it would say.
I should lose one or two
maybe more than a few
of the pounds that it said I might weigh.

Prompt word: “weigh” September 8, 2025 (modified)

The Difference Between Night And Day

It is funny how nightmares don’t seem
quite so spooky when in a daydream.
In the night, light is dark.
In the day, wolves don’t bark.
So relax. Wait till night comes to scream.

Prompt word: “funny” September 15, 2025

Then the birds rise to see how the sun shines with ease and the clouds will just have to give way.

Shower Of Thoughts

As I thought and I thought and I thought
in a shower of thoughts I got caught.
I had hoped to get clean
not stay dirty and mean,
but I still do not do what I ought.

Prompt word: “shower” September 22, 2025

Tick, Tock, Tank

As a tank it was built for success.
It succeeded in making a mess.
It was stopped one fine day
when it went out to play
by a tank built to cause more distress.

Prompt word: “tank” September 29, 2025

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

Dale offers “changing seasons” as the prompt for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Here are photos from all four seasons over various years.

Also in many different places.

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Fall: View of Lake Michigan from Lake Bluff, Illinois

Matthew 10:16

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

*Badge by Laura @ riddlefromthemiddle.com*

Six Sentence Story: Poof, The End

The family of four, Adam and Evie with their son and daughter, stopped for lunch. They each made a choice of drink and foot-long sandwich which was heated and sliced in two. After paying for the food Adam followed his family outside to a table in the park that Evie selected.

A woman, homeless and without food, sat at one of the tables they passed. Before sitting down, Adam took one of the halves of his sandwich and gave it to her.

Blessings flowed through the kingdom of heaven.

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

Matthew 25:40 KJV – And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

This completes the Apple Poof Delight tales.

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One of my poems, Light and Dark, was published yesterday in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Shades of Gray

Dale offers the prompt “shades of gray” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Beach sand without too much debris is mostly shades of gray.

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One of my poems, Light and Dark, was published today in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Psalm 46:10

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Ferns and Fungi

Dale offers the prompt “ferns and fungi” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

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Also, today, one of my poems, “Library”, has appeared in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

James 5:13

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

One of my poems, Perfect Peace, appeared this morning in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Six Sentence Story: Adam and Evie, First Date, Second Try

Since the alternatives weren’t working, Evie decided to yield to grace rather than self-justification as she apologized to Adam when she and Lilith ran into him again.

Lilith quickly clarified that what Evie meant was they were not going to tolerate Adam’s abuse any longer and there would be severe consequences if he refused to cooperate with their demands which she took from her bag and began to read.

While Lilith was running her mouth Adam wondered if Evie’s sudden change of heart meant she didn’t know as much about what was going on as he thought. Deciding to gamble on Evie being deceived, Adam shifted his attention to Lilith abruptly interrupting her “demands” and telling her to “get the hell out of here”.

Offended by such rude behavior Lilith made a mistake – common among humans and common among her own kind – thinking she could take brief detours from her assignments to get even with someone who deliberately ticked her off and thereby expose her more authentic voice as a hiss and her more authentic body as that of a serpent now rising slowly above Adam’s head.

Standing his ground Adam baited the snake (or demon, or whatever it might turn into next) to increase its arrogance – bolder, louder, meaner – for all to see until it realized that it had to obey and the fastest way that this particular whatever-it-was knew how to obey was poof.

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

One of my poems, Perfect Peace, appeared this morning in Whispers and Echoes. I am grateful to the editor for selecting it.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Off the Beaten Track

Dale offers the prompt “off the beaten track” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Although there is likely a paved bikeway nearby in Florida you could get off that beaten track to walk on the sands of the ocean shore for many miles.

However, it is not as easy to walk on the shifting, unbeaten down sand as it is to walk on the bike trail. You do get to see all kinds of things the waves wash to shore.