Limericks

[Eulalia]

" poise" = pèse ?

paise, 'pains', je crois - mais peut-être pèse 'weighs me down' comme dans la dernière ligne - mais je pense que c'est un jeu de mots

 

[messaline]

Anyway, it's certainly concerning the weight : from ...

D. Godefroy

micmap.org

... there is a definition of "poise" :

 

[Hangnail]

This version is a little different from Eulalia's. Perhaps a translation to modern French?

Je suis François, cela me peine
Né à Paris, près de Pontoise
Au bout de la corde d'une toise
Mon cou saura ce que mon cul pèse.

Je suis François, cela me peine - Né à Paris, près de Pontoise - [...] - François Villon

Je suis François, cela me peine - Né à Paris, près de Pontoise - [...] - François Villon

dicocitations.lemonde.fr

 

[montycrusto]

Je n’ai pas envie de mourir
Ni d’être enterré pour pourrir.
Alors je vais vivre
Content et ivre
Chaque jour que ma vie peut courir

 

[messaline]

This version is a little different from Eulalia's. Perhaps a translation to modern French?

Je suis François, cela me peine
Né à Paris, près de Pontoise
Au bout de la corde d'une toise
Mon cou saura ce que mon cul pèse.

Je suis François, cela me peine - Né à Paris, près de Pontoise - [...] - François Villon

Je suis François, cela me peine - Né à Paris, près de Pontoise - [...] - François Villon

dicocitations.lemonde.fr

I dont agree with "peine" : if it was, why the same verb is used for "poise" ?

This is the translation for "peine" :
(from http://micmap.org/dicfro/page/lexique-godefroy/385/PEINER)
It could make sense but in this case, the word "peine" ("pene") would be used ... not "poise" ...

 

[montycrusto]

@messaline clouée à la croix
Laisse tomber sa tête sur le bois.
“Ah, cette agonie
Me donne l’envie
De me toucher là-bas quelquefois!”

(sorry about my French )

 

[messaline]

(sorry about my French )

No, very good !

 

[montycrusto]

We three blokes of orient aren’t,
Hoped that God a vision would grant.
If we had a bleeding
Map we’d be reading
It, sadly we haven’t and can’t.

 

[Madiosi]

The queen Barb hung on her cross on Golgtha.
Many people shout "Haha!"
She slowly died for a silly Limerick,
which described Herodes little dick.

 

[montycrusto]

Though madder than three bags of ferrets,
I demand to be he that inherits
The title “Doctorum
De Limerickorum
Quis Barbam Extracto Demerits”.

 

[twonines]

A Limerick can cause such a storm
And can be quite tricky, in form,
But when it`s cleverly used,
We can be highly amused,
If it doesn`t stray too far from the norm.

 

[Madiosi]

A Limerick can cause such a storm
And can be quite tricky, in form,
But when it`s cleverly used,
We can be highly amused,
If it doesn`t stray too far from the norm.

Opps, my Limerick is clearly against the rules. He miss the fifth row. Take the image for that!

Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[montycrusto]

You can blame @Wragg for this one:

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(Have fun decoding it, there MAY be a prize)

 

[Madiosi]

._ A
._.. .. __ . ._. .. _._. _._ Limerick
.__ ._. .. _ _ . _. written
.. _. in
__ ___ ._. ... . morse

.__ .... _.__why
.__ ._. ._ __. __.wragg
_.__ ___ .._you
._ ._. .are
.___ ___ _._ .. _. __. joking
___ .._.of
_._. ___ .._ ._. ... .course

 

[Madiosi]

___ _. .one
.... ._ ...has
_ ___to
.._ ... . use
._.. ___ _ ...lots

___ .._.of
_.. ._ ... .... . ...dashes
._ _. _..and
_.. ___ _ ... dots

 

[Madiosi]

_.. ___ _ ...dots
___ _. .one
__ .. __. .... _might
._ ...as
.__ . ._.. ._..well
.._. ._.. ___ __.flow
._a
_.. . ._ _..dead
.... ___ ._. ... .horse

 

[montycrusto]

_.. ___ _ ...dots
___ _. .one
__ .. __. .... _might
._ ...as
.__ . ._.. ._..well
.._. ._.. ___ __.flow
._a
_.. . ._ _..dead
.... ___ ._. ... .horse

Brilliant @Madiosi !!
(It’s “flog a dead horse” Otherwise perfect!)

A limerick written in morse,
Why @Wragg you are joking of course
One has to use lots
Of dashes and dots
One may as well flog a dead horse

 

[twonines]

Opps, my Limerick is clearly against the rules. He miss the fifth row. Take the image for that!

Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

No criticism intended, if I could write any sort of verse in German, I would be highly delighted!

 

[twonines]

For a kinky young lady from Maine,
Sex had to be coupled with pain.
The streets she`d go cruising,
Whilst seeking a bruising,
And at least thirty strokes of the cane.

 

[Madiosi]

I would rime the last row how the first:
And at least, she was whipped fine.