Holidays: A Poetry/Photo Montage

(A very bad poem using limerick rhyme scheme and a rhyming dictionary. 

In each verse I tried to use at least one outrageous rhyming dictionary suggestion.) 

This year I came home for Winter Break

And it came almost too late

My semester was stressful 

My course load was high

And I nearly met an ill fate 

 But I made it to my lovely home

and felt that I could never roam

so far again from trees and fields

and Southern food and Southern words

Not even for polyurethane foam

I was excited to celebrate the holidays

with words of Christmas song and praise

with my mom's Spice Tea and cookies

with friends and family and anyone who came 

even with Rutherford B. Hayes

We went to my Grandpa's house

Where no one could grouse 

because there was fried fish a plenty 

and the view was pristine 

and no sight of a sucking louse

I read oh so very many books

about God and poetry and crooks

I think I broke my personal record

as I lost myself in the new worlds

and came out hungry for chinooks* 

I went to a New Year's Eve party

Where the food and the laughter was hearty

our sweaters were tacky 

and our stories were funny 

and luckily no one was farty. 

There were sad times and glad times

and the occasional eating of limes

Now to face my very last semester

With good cheer and with courage

and hopefully very few crimes 

PS I would recommend any of the books in the above photo! 

*I am using this word as a reference to a "large Pacific salmon" not a member of the Chinook tribe, because, you know, I don't eat people.