Thanks Doug for your comments on my limericks. Here’s another one which I wrote for someone who was my guide through a dark place:
I walked in the temples of hell
those halls where the famous do dwell:
I said, Let’s up the ante
you Virgil, me Dante –
there’s a market, so get out and sell.
(the last line was a quote from Thatcher, reportedly speaking to arms dealers. That woman made my blood run cold)
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I started my first novel, aged 8, in a draughty vicarage, finishing it 14 years later. My first poem emerged on a Sussex beach in 1965, but I didn’t return to poetry until 2007: I’m still trying to find out why.
I have published short stories, poems and reviews and am a recognised performance poet. I’ve been married 21 years and have two children, Holly, 20 and Daniel, 17; but my husband now wants to be known as female. My struggles with this and its effects on my writing, are the springboard for short stories and a radio play.
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Sarada Gray 
Another excellent limerick. It’s nice to see limericks that don’t necessarily start “There was an old fellow from Leeds” etc or degrade to the lowest common denominator of bodily functions! I don’t do this blogging thing (us 52 year old blokes are so luddite!) and it was only by chance that I stumbled back to your blog. There is a place I submit my limericks to on a monthly basis. It’s a small circulation rag called the Pentatette and it only costs $5 per annum to subscribe. If you e-mail me on stride.environmental@virgin.net I could send you a copy. Also take a look at http://www.limericks.org and http://www.oedilf.com.
Best wishes,
Doug