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This page is dedicated to imput from our readers. It is a place where you can share your thoughts and reflections with us and other readers. At some point it may become a blog, but for now we will do the posting. You can click the Contact button at the bottom of any page or Press Here to get where you need to be to send us stuff.

So let's hear from you!



Limerick of the Month
A good dictionary will tell you that a limerick is a form of light poetry with five lines of anapestic verse. Normally the first two verses rhyme with the fifth, and the third verse with the fourth. Look up anapestic and buckle your seat belt for a ride through major confusion. Or you can simply look at a classic nursery rhyme and get the idea.

There once were two cats in Kilkinney.
For each 'twas one cat too many.
So they hissed and they spit
And they fought and they bit
'Til instead of two cats there weren't any!

Each month an original limerick from our readers will be posted here. The best will receive a free book from our shelves. The only rules are that 1) it must be original work owned by the person sending it in, 2) you give us permission to publish it on the site and, later, in a collection, and 3) it must be in what we consider good taste.

Limericks go bragh!



For the Record
Limerick is both a county and a city in southwestern Ireland. The city is on the Shannon River and it is not certain just when it was founded. The Norse had a settlement there in the ninth and tenth centuries, but this was later taken over by other invaders.

Nor is is certain that Limerick is the origin point for limericks. What is certain is that they are fairly old and often bawdy. There are limericks in the works of William Shakespeare and they appear in even earlier forms. They also appear in various languages but lose the essence in translation.