Peace Limerick Contest

[Beta]

Hey in limerick form ok

OK. How's this:

Shiber was being seriously sly
Turning poems into money on the fly
But an error at the bank
Led to an ominous clank
From the door of the prison in Eye.

[Tiberius]

A poor old bastard, nicknamed Eli
Caused the whole mess, the casus beli
Grog was shouting: "I WANT TANK!"
Instead Eli applied him a spank
and Grog from the mountain fell off slowly.

[Tiberius]

Breaking news: Shiber did confess
The contest is in distress
The admission fee was dirty
The money is in the laundry
While Shiber in a nice, convict dress.

[notyoueither]

Eli springs on Grog -
Storms howl in terrible rage.
Vox flees, gales abate.

Sorry, we're not Irish.

[Beta]

Beta's at sea for awhile
Sailing north o'er the Bobian Isle
Course west he does steer
But often you'll hear
"If only I had covered that tile..."

[vulture]

My attempt at a limerick in German. Which isn't my first language, which explains why it isn't very good...


Das klein Heer von Vox Sued gegangen,
Und hat einen Krieg angefangen.
Sie haben gestiefelt
Ueber Berg und Hochfeld,
Aber getoetet wurden durch Huehner und Schlangen.

[DAVOUT]

They left their village and their family;
They had rendezvous with their destiny.
How avoid to be crushed
By enemies, quietly ambushed
And well equipped with machinery?

[Beta]

Originally posted by vulture
My attempt at a limerick in German. Which isn't my first language, which explains why it isn't very good...


Das klein Heer von Vox Sued gegangen,
Und hat einen Krieg angefangen.
Sie haben gestiefelt
Ueber Berg und Hochfeld,
Aber getoetet wurden durch Huehner und Schlangen.

And this is the extent my grade 10 German (and believe me - that is a while ago) can translate. The rest - well, I extrapolated a bit.

The small guys(hey watch it) from Vox charged south
And had a war .....(angefangen?) (we used our teeth in anger?) (or was that the chickens? Do chickens have teeth?)
They had ...(gestiefelt?) (felt up the guests?)
Over Mountain and Cowfield
After going toe-to toe with two guys from Gathering Storm we have never heard of before - Huehner and Schlangen.

(Ah - so that is how GS beat us. They brought in ringers.....)

ps - Vulture - great stuff - thanks.

[FrustratedPoet]

(gestiefelt?) (felt up the guests?)

[Darekill]

Das kleine Heer von Vox ist nach Süden gegangen,
hat einen Krieg dort angefangen.
Sie sind gestiefelt
Ueber Berg und Feld wohl bestellt,
und wurden getötet durch Huehner und Bananen.

Translation without the rhyme:

The little Army from vox did walk south,
begann a war then and there
they stalked
over mountain and field well prepared
got killed by chicken and bananas!

EDIT:
Eliminated some typos added Umlaute and replaced the snakes with bananas

[FrustratedPoet]

I'm guessing that "gestiefelt" means "stalked", then.

[Darekill]

Yes kind of. "Stiefeln" means to walk with boots "Stiefel" on your feet. It also has a meaning of stumble into something. So i better would have used the term strode but i did not find this word the time i wrote it...

[Beta]

Great! Thanks Darekill et all.

Well - the chickens (Schlanger) we met.

But who are these snakes ( Huehner) they are talking about .....?

[Darekill]

actually the chickens are the "Hühner" and the snakes are the "Schlangen" wich you never met i replaced them with bananas if i recall it right they were involved

[Master Zen]

The was once a massive exodus
caused by Vox's backstabbing flukes
but despite treachery
now we see charity
when before no-one cared about Lux!