Limericks

By James E. Tague

Written over many years and enjoyed by family and friends, Jim has decided to publish these limericks for his eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. As Jim has stated, A limerick is to me a form of poetry, moving to a natural rhythm within a precise framework. It starts with observing a person, place, or event then reaching a conclusion. Tied together with clever rhymes and wrapped in a sense of humor, limericks provide a writer with a challenge to organize facts, manipulate words, and provide the wit to give insight and meaning to what is often mundane.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499084375

James E. Tague

Jim retired from Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) and resided in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, for nearly fifty years but now lives in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. He and his late wife, Lois, had four children. While James, Patricia, and Steven still live in the Drexel Hill area, their daughter Kathleen died in 1994 at the age of twenty-nine. A Korean War air force veteran, Jim served in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1951 to 1954. He has a BS degree in economics from Villanova University and an MA degree in liberal arts from Temple University. Jim has published several children’s stories, a book of essays, a book of limericks, and The Last Field Marshal, a book on World War II. All can be found on his website www.jamesetague.com. E-mail him at [e-mail].

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Copyright © 2014 by James E. Tague.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014918473

ISBN:      Hardcover     978-1-4990-8435-1

                Softcover       978-1-4990-8436-8

                eBook            978-1-4990-8437-5

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Cover Art illustration by Paul Bonanno with other illustrations by Thomas McAteer and Paul Bonanno

Rev. date: 11/03/2014

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The following thoughts are designed

To appeal to people of every kind,

If these limericks fail

On a literary scale,

Blame the manner in which they are rhymed.

Tá greann i ngach áit

(Humor is everywhere)

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There was a rhino that was born,

With a hook in place of a horn.

It just had to be fate,

That it never grew straight,

But he was never held up to scorn.

There were two little sisters named Blake,

Who decided one day they would bake,

And the lesson they learned,

When all had been