BookMooch Limerick Contest
From MoochWiki
There Once was a book
No one took a look
Bookmooch was started by John
for books to lay hands on
that book now has been took.
Christel Luther
There's a book I'd really like to mooch
But not if it's been chewed by your pooch
So please list its condition
With the correct edition
And I'll gladly take it with a smooch!
Anna Creech
There once was a moocher with comics
Who sought some new topics through epics
Requested from Silver
Response was a baffler
It was not nice bookmooch economics!
Erin Rebekah
If a free book is your final endpoint,
Then Bookmooch.com is your joint,
First you type it right in,
Name or ISBN,
And it only costs one little point.
Tony Servies
A BOOKMOOCH LOVER
Six months I've been with BookMooch now,
My piles of books are growing.
I'm sending books out even when
It's raining, sleeting, snowing.
I await the mail delivery
With great anticipation,
To see which books I'll get today
From new friends across the nation.
Always with a book in hand,
I get some crazy looks.
But it fills me with such happiness
To read these awesome books!
Kristen
I once mooched a book from Peru
I was lonely with nothing to do
But when it arrived, boy what a surprise
The moochee had donated two!
mjones8727
There once was an old man named Hooks
Who stacked books in all crannies and nooks
They found him one day
In a very bad way
Buried 'neath a big pile of books
Cheryl cheribomb
our runner-up, and winner of 3 points:
A Moocher is Born - an epic in 5 limericks
A young lady from Kalamazoo,
Said, "I simply don't know what to do!
All these books in my den
That I won't read again:
I'm sure someone must want them, but who?"
Her best friend, who was just stopping by,
Said, "I know this cool site you should try.
It's called BookMooch.com,
And I think it's 'da bomb.'
This poem here will explain why:
'There once was a man in Nantucket,
Had a book that he wanted to chuck. It
Did not go to waste;
Someone mooched it posthaste.
That same day, in the mailbox he stuck it.'
"See, a book that just isn't your pleasure
May turn out to be somebody's treasure.
Though the plot left you pissed,
It's on someone's wishlist.
You can mooch a new read at your leisure."
To her laptop, the young lady ran,
Grabbed her :CueCat and started to scan.
Soon her inventory
Was there for all to see,
And that's how a new moocher began.
Julien Colvin jaimelesmaths
and finally, our contest winner of 5 points:
A cautionary tale!
This is the tale of a book-loving soul,
Who was walking her dog when she tripped in a hole.
Her head it was spinning with this mooch and that,
Of books she was after, and so she fell, Splat!
She put both her hands out to cushion her fall
(But that is never a good plan at all!)
The dog's lead was left in a bit of a tangle
And her right wrist stuck out at a very strange angle!
I guess that the moral should be 'Look where you're heading!'
But it's really a different lesson I'm spreading.
For though pain has meant lots of ouches and ooches
There's time now to read through her mountain of MOOCHES!
marilyn wilkinson
