The Rhyming Klingon

Someone is leaving bad poems around Starbase Bravo’s marketplaces, it seems an infamous poetry criminal has escaped alongside several fugitives in the recent prison break. Starbase Security believes the only way to draw him out is to make him believe someone is trying to take his title as the best poet in the quadrant. Unfortunately not one of them can rhyme, your superiors have suggested you might be a help, can you out-write ‘The Rhyming Klingon’?

Submissions for this competition should take the form of a 5 line limerick. A limerick is a short humorous poem that generally obeys the following rules;

1. They are five lines long.

2. Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme with one another.

3. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme with each other.

4. The first, second, and fifth lines have seven to ten syllables, while the third and fourth lines have five to seven syllables

For Example;

There once was a girl from Orion,
Who scared off some pirates at Triton.
She flipped her red hair,
And without a care,
Said ‘You haven’t turned off the oven’!

Criteria

• Submissions should take the form of the limerick entered directly into the BFMS textbox in the same layout as the example.
• Submissions will be judged on a scale of 1-5 (5 being highest) for the following 4 criteria; 30% Correctness of form and style, 30% Creativity of content and rhyme, 30% Relevance to canon and ongoing in-universe activities, 10% Correctness of spelling and grammar
• The highest-scoring limerick will be declared the winner, ties will be decided by the order of submission.