Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is a limerick? These silly poems make a really fun writing exercise. Limericks are a fun and timeless way to tell short, ...

One man's joke has become his mission: to give each word a rhyming definition. Chris Strolin was teasing English buffs in an online forum years ago when he said the dictionary should be rewritten in ...

And learned a few things they’d not known, see? Full disclosure: We wrote that one. And it’s true that the word poetry doesn’t necessarily bring fun and laughter to mind. The exception to the rule?

Some people make vows to exercise daily. Or work on their novel. Or play the violin. Oregon State University biochemistry and biophysics Professor Kevin Ahern, meanwhile, has been writing a limerick a ...

This month, he published a book, “A Limerick a Day for a Year,” containing the fruits of his yearlong writing exercise. How does a busy biochemist find the time and inspiration to write a year’s worth ...

David Kragnes explains the joys of small town summer festivals and offers up three limericks he wrote about lake life. David Kragnes writes of "Sailboat Envy" in one of his limericks, like these ones ...

The anonymous limericist was kind enough to answer a few questions: Why limericks? What inspired to embrace this particular art form? I started writing limericks a few years ago in college when I took ...