The contentious concept of extending limerick verses by adding a pair of C-line rhymes (and occasionally even D-line rhymes) to the standard A- and B-line rhymes was introduced by the groundbreaking work of Irish limericist Seamus O'Malley, as discussed in a blogpost HERE.
To assist readers' further understanding of this issue, the extension results in an elegant non-standard 7-line verse, which we have called a "LIMERRHOID". One should take care, however, as not all 7-line limericks are the result of applying O'Malley's modification. Care must be taken not to confuse this process with the less rigorous addition of extra A- or B-rhyme lines, that result in a "Run-On Limerick".
In a follow-up post, HERE, we displayed our earlier work on the limerrhoid as disciples of O'Malley. Much to our surprise, we have prevailed over skeptical critics and editors at the collaborative website OEDILF (Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form), with completion of their rigorous editing process, and online publication of most of the limerrhoids in this earlier opus.
In the current post, we are displaying some of our more recent work on limerrhoids on a variety of topics. For the most part, our novel verses have not yet (February 2024) completed the process of rigorous multi-editor review at OEDILF, but we will note changes below as developments occur.

final approval for poetry publication at the OEDILF collaborative writing site:
(this list shows the defining word at OEDILF, and the title of the blogpost for topic-based poems on our blog "Edifying Nonsense".
Mar 2024: distant (urban issues) anachronistically (creative anachronisms)
collective (pandemic poetry)
history (creative anachronisms)
Hoyle, Edmond (poetic non-sequiturs)
Apr 2024: disciple (limerick variations)
May 2024: hoggishly (poetic non-sequiturs)
H. pylori (basic medical science)
Jun 2024: hop to it (ambulation)
deserved (American satire)
Jul 2024: founding culture (Canadiana)
grift (American satire)
Cassatt, Mary (painterly poetry)
Verses that display this unusual construction can also be viewed in larger format, with their relevant "Authors' Notes", and oftentimes further photographic elaboration, on our companion blogpost "Daily Illustrated Nonsense".
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS:
To resume your review of the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics.
Most of these key elements of our work are assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.
The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.
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