Want a chance to win one (1) of two (2) $25 gift cards to Seamus McCaffrey’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in the heart of Downtown? Just submit your very best Downtown-inspired (and clean) limerick. We’ll take entries all the way up until 2 p.m. on St. Patrick’s Day (3/17) and announce a winner at 3 p.m. (Just in time for the winners to start their holiday with a pint or two of Guiness and some Shepherd’s Pie).
For the layperson, a standard limerick is a five-line poem (usually funny, or at least attempting to be) where Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme and contain 7-10 syllables and Lines 3 and 4 also rhyme but are a tad shorter in length, usually 5-6 syllables.
Here’s an example thrown together a few minutes ago:
There once was a man from Phoenix
Who couldn’t ever find his own Kleenex
His wife called him a louse
When he sneezed in her blouse
In the garbage sits the garment in a helix
Lame? You betcha, but you get the idea.
May the luck of the Irish be with you as you craft your Downtown limerick and please do keep them clean or run the risk of being disqualified.
You may also choose to submit your limerick on the Fans of Downtown Facebook page.
Tags: downtown phoenix, limerick, seamus mccaffrey's, St. Patrick's Day
“Let’s go for a drink out in Scottsdale!”
“If you’re looking for fun then you might fail,
We should instead go to Carly’s,
Seamus, or Majerle’s
And get dropped off at home by the light rail.”
Winter in Phoenix is sweet.
You don’t have to shovel the heat.
And when there is rain,
you can hop on the train
downtown for something to eat.
They say that the desert is hot,
but downtown Phoenix is not.
It’s very way cool.
So don’t be a fool.
Go down there and see what’s about!