These are some of the entries to our last issue's Limerick Contest, where we asked readers to submit Concord limericks. We are thrilled with the ways the entrants twisted the rules set out last time, and give great points for originality and verve. Thanks for your submissions....the winners will receive a Concord Homepage T-shirt.
There once was a magazine "Concord,"
A contest of Limericks it sponsored.
A Concord T-Shirt
Of fabulous worth
Was the prize for the poems that had conquered.
-Editor
There's a bridge in the small town of Concord.
 It is rude, it is wide, and is ab-horred,
By the British of course,
Were it not for a horse,
You colonials would still be on-board!
Jim McCormick, Fife, Scotland
There was a young lady from Concord,
a singer, overly encored.
She was generous, she was gracious,
but her programs, too spacious,
often left her quite zonkered.
A. Swan Cutler, Concord, MA
Thoreau claimed that just for a lark,
He'd live in a cabin of bark
In deep woods by a pond,
But he's putting us on.
We all know he lived in the park.
Blake Gavitt, Towanda, PA
On Patriots' Day in Concord
History is temporarily restored.
Minutemen march down the street
To a fife and drum beat,
As we act out that Year of Our Lord.
Mercury Morgan,
There was an non-resident of Concord
Who nonetheless felt she had conquered.
She wrote limericks so fine
The judge deemed them divine,
But disqualified her 'cause she was bonkers.
Donna Cunningham, Portland, OR
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Said an elderly miss from Concord,
Who still drives a model T Ford,
"Given the choice,
I'd prefer a Rolls Royce,
But the upkeep I couldn't afford."
Ralph Pinkerton, Washington
Walden Pond is the place in our nation,
Where Thoreau penned his great meditation.
Henry's old Concord hermitage,
Is for many a pilgrimage,
And a shrine to the man's inspiration.
John Small, Concord, MA
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