Drowsy on a warm summer noon,
we taste mango ice cream in June
chewing jelly I sneeze
startled, your cup spills cheese
bathed in dessert, a live cartoon.
*This poem has been written using the limerick poetry form invented somewhere in Ireland in the early 18th century. A limerick is a five-line, often humorous and witty poem with lines 1, 2, and 5 have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other. This poem has a count of 8,8,6,6,8 syllables in lines 1 to 5 respectively and a rhyme scheme of aabba.*
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