Orangerick

(In response to a challenge to extend the first line into a perfectly scanning and rhyming limerick, despite nothing in the dictionary rhyming with orange):
There was a young soldier from Orange
Whose name was  Lorenzo  McMorran?Geronimo Deacon?Nathaniel McMeekin?Nurse Gladys Emmanuel Gorringe.
 
CELEBRATE NATIONAL POETRY DAY AT ‘RHYME TIME’
3.30pm, Friday 28 August, Martinborough Library
 
Do you get a giggle from cleverly-crafted verse with a twist in the tail? Then whether you’re 8 or 88, come to the Martinborough Library at ‘Rhyme Time’, 3.30pm on National Poetry Day, Friday 28 August. Enjoy the Martinborough Star’s resident rhymester John Ansell and head librarian Shirley Nightingale reciting the poems of master twits like Roald Dahl, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan, Pam Ayres and Les Barker. Learn about the craft of humorous rhyme, and bring along a rhyming poem of your own. We’ll award a chocolate fish to the funniest.