Lucy Vickery

Take three

issue 29 June 2019

In Competition No. 3104 you were invited to encapsulate the life story of a well-known person, living or dead, in three limericks.
 
The limerick form was neatly summed up by the late Paul Griffin, long-time competitor and a regular winner on these pages:
 


A limerick’s short and it’s slick;
Like a racehorse it has to be quick:
The front may seem calm
And cause no alarm
But the end is the bit that can kick.



 
The saints and sinners whose lives you squished into 15 lines ranged from Donald Trump, Jim Davidson and...

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