Rosamund Browne

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Magpie 107

He painted my portrait, did Paul,

And boy, did my pride take a fall!
I’ve either changed sex,
Or I need some new specs
‘Coz it doesn’t look like me at all.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: It took me a moment before I got the "punchline" at the end. :)

Great rhymes! I do rhyming poems myself, on occasion. This one has the rhythm of a limerick.

-Mara
http://the-poetic-madame.blogspot.com; 6 March 2012 at 16:14
Berowne said...: Clever and entertaining take on the prompt...; 7 March 2012 at 08:10
Trellissimo said...: I love this limerick!; 7 March 2012 at 11:24
Anonymous said...: very cute :]; 8 March 2012 at 15:32

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