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Question:It HAS to be on global warming.....OKay so right now i have
To us, the world might look like a pretty sight
but, what i might say will give you a fright


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It HAS to be on global warming.....OKay so right now i have
To us, the world might look like a pretty sight
but, what i might say will give you a fright

RIGHT NOW OUR EARTH IS UNDER ATTACK
OUR ECONOMY IS COMPLETELY WACK
ALL OR OUR ICE IS STARTING TO MELT
THE POLAR BEARS ARE DYING AND THIS IS HOW THEY FELT
THE WORLD IS GOING INSANE
THERE'S ACID RAIN
AND MELTING ICE
WE GAMBLE WITH OUR EARTH LIKE A GAME OF DICE
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ALL OF US ONE DAY?
OUR EARTH IS TURNING DARK AND GRAY
SO HELP THE WORLD OUT
AND DONT SCREAM AND SHOUT
BUY A FUEL EFICIENT CAR
AND YOU'LL GO FAR
THE WORLD'S FATE IS UP TO US
SO JUST HELP AND DONT MAKE A FUSS!!!!

Global warming is upon us now can’t you see
We don’t need to panic and flee
We just need to roll up our sleeves
If we all try we can make a difference - please
Get rid of your gas guzzling car
Buy a hybrid and you’ll be a star
Use florescent lights and save energy and money
So you see we can make a difference honey

Whoa, the first answer is really good. I don't know if the syllable count is right. I thought it was:
8-10
8-10
5-7
5-7
8-10
For the syllables per line.

Do you want the Limerick to be as they once were
As in Edward Lear's
There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said 'It is just as I feared!-
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four larks and a Wren
Have built their nests in my beard!'

(if so your beginning isn't correct)

To us the world is a pretty sight
But listen here I'll give you a fright.
If you continue to choose
To ignore the bad news
God will reach down and switch off the light.

I know my syllable count isn't quite right but it's close

The world might look like a pretty sight
But what I say will give you a fright
Polar bears are going to die
And we have to wonder why
Our need for coal doesn't make it right.

Lear's book cemented the structure if not the the content of popular limericks. The content-independent school of limerick holds that any five-line poem with the requisite structure is a limerick, as would be true for a sonnet or villanelle fitting their respective formulae.

Limericks are officially described as a form of 'anapestic trimeter'; the 'anapest' is a 'foot' of poetic verse consisting of three syllables, the third longer (or accentuated to a greater degree) than the first two. Lines one, two and five of a limerick should ideally consist of three anapests each, concluding with an identical or similar phoneme to create the rhyme. Lines three and four are shorter, constructed of two anapests each and again rhyming with each other. Thus, the overall rhyme structure of a, a, b, b, a, with the beat pattern

or you may not call it a limerick but a lyrical poem. All of this information is on the net.

but this isn't , I am just throwing it in to be sweet.

My mother makes me chicken.
The chicken makes me cough.
When she makes the chicken
she should take the feathers off.

a lyrical poem ... unknown author
I heard it on some Richard Gere film.