Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love cracking short jokes or writing funny poems, why not add a few ...

When I was growing up, I thought poetry was very serious. It took me a long time to realise that it can be fun and that anyone can do it. At its heart, poetry is about having fun with words and the ...

As Múinteoir John mentioned in the lesson, a limerick is a silly, funny poem with five lines. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, an English author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the ...