The Wrong Planet Limerick Thread!

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While looking for words that are rhymin'
The Dragon has done some refinin'.
Poor Annie misspoke,
It's a bit of a joke!
She meant "Lohikäärme on nainen!"

Annie, quite quick to please,
Thought her brain could be made of Swiss cheese
When she found it true,
(And nothing to rue)
Kun Sand on runollinen mies.

Though dragons and poetry mix,
They sometimes put you in a fix.
So writing in Finnish
Does not diminish
The need to play with new tricks.

A search of the Web systematical
Yielded Suomi resources grammatical
But to my consternation
A faulty translation
Did render my rhyme enigmatical!

There's no doubt that grammar's a mess
In Finnish, I must confess.
Puts all prepositions
In strange conditions
To follow and cause great distress.

Although I live in Helsinki
My Finnish remains rather dinky.
I'm a New Yorker by birth
(Whatever that's worth)
And my poetry sometimes gets kinky.

In Canada, land of my birth
Language issues provoke lots of mirth
Bilingual? No strain!
Norvège, ou bien l'Ukraïne...
Is most polyglot spot on this earth!

(Except I'm betting your Finnish is better than my French, Sand! )

If you're looking for language, diverse,
I'm sure other places are worse
Than Manhattan or Brooklyn
If you care to look in
The rest of the Earth, to be terse.

My French is outstandingly bad.
It's something that makes me quite sad.
For, whatever they says,
l'Alliance française
Left my French in a status most sad.

I've lived here for quite a while.
But my Finnish attempts bring a smile.
I don't denounce it
But when I pronounce it
It comes out bereft of good style.

A newcomer cautiously intruded his presence
with nervous and eratic back-ward glances
I only demand that Sleepydragon and Sand
will both understand
that i haven't read any of the previous pages.

I'm a visitor myself here
But be aware what must be clear.
Lines that rhyme are one, two, five
With a couplet to be kept alive
After two makes things in gear.

(syz, here's one you might enjoy)

There was a young woman named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.

(That's from The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor. P.S. Found my Alien DVD! Now I just have to find the helmet & egg scene you mentioned.)

oh, SleepyDragon just like Ana54 called me syz
hope you make a perpetual discontinuous plan out of this
Liz
oh, it took me forever to rhyme the first three lines
and i blame Sands deliberatingly disconcerting rhythms

but i think i am drunk enough to imitate shakespear
and invent a new meter
so, hows this

Though Einstein had fun with gravity,
And handled light with suavity,
He made Newton's disgrace
In the way he took space
To a black hole, a terrible cavity.