I’m featuring silly limericks today for Poetry Friday. I heard through the grapevine that July 14th is National Macaroni and Cheese Day. Tabatha Yeatts, at The Opposite of Indifference, our Poetry Friday host extraordinaire put out a call for Mac and Cheese poems, and of course I thought of limericks. Hope you have fun, and do visit Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference for more Poetry Friday poems (and maybe silly antics).
MACARONI AND CHEWY CHEESE
Uuuh, said Macaroni, where’s Chewy Cheese?
Come out wherrrrrevvver you are, they’re here, pleeeese!
Ants are marching two by two–
They’re coming after me and you!
Oooooh Noooo, don’t sneeze they’ll find us with such ease.
Quick Cheese, let’s slide behind this sun screen spray,
We’ll fool them, deter them, keep’m far away.
They’re marching to the jello,
You lucky, ducky fellow.
I’m lucky you’ll stick with me and not stray.
Ooopsss, they’re circling back, they smell our tracks,
Quick Cheese strew out your marshmallows in stacks!
That’s sure to stop’em right there
Awww Cheesy your just to fair.
Best bid farewell Cheese, for we’re there next snacks . . .
© 2017 Michelle Kogan
Here’s one more short Limerick on Mac and Cheese for pasta lovers. Read the remaining lines at Poetry Soup
PASTA, PASTA, EVERYWHERE
Oh, vermicelli, rigatoni!
Lost on a sea of minestrone.
The sea beneath my feet,
Copyright © William Robinson| Year Posted 2005
Michelle Kogan Illustration, Painting, & Writing 
Oh, I wish I would have thought of limericks, yours are fantastic and so funny!
Thanks, my thoughts beelined there right away.
Ha! What fun. Love those ants marching two by two in your illustration. And that happy spoon…. perhaps it is relieved it will not be a snack. Happy Picnicking, Poem-writing, and Picture-making!
Thanks Robyn, I did some picnicking this past week-end, so I’m fitting a bit of all in!
I love your illustration! I do think mac and cheese are done for though! 🙂
Hi Rebecca, thanks, yep they’re the ant’s history!F
Great combination of poem and picture. The multi-colored marshmallows make it extra special! Magically delicious!
Thanks Diane, it was a fun prompt!
There is so much fun happening at your blog today, Michelle. The illustration is perfect for the poem you created. I love the cheese trying to ward off the ants.
Thanks Carol, it was a fun topic!
Ah, but you cannot deter ants for long! So long, Mac & Cheese!
Ah, Yes you’re so right Donna!
I love the illustration and the wily pair, evading the hordes.
Thanks Brenda, watch out for those pesky ants this summer!
Those ants are a force to be reckoned with! (And that spoon – blissful in ignorance.) A fun teaming of theme, words and illustration, Michelle.
Thanks Kat!
Dear Michelle — marching to the jello! Love. 🙂 Fun fun fun. xo
Thanks Irene!
Oh, no! A tale of treachery and doom…on a mac and cheese picnic! And, yes, what’s up with the look on that spoon’s face? Is it in collusion with the ants?
Thanks Mary Lee, time will only tell.
Your illustration is terrific! What a jaunty hat on Cheese. Love the interplay of story and image.
Hi Tabatha, thanks! thanks for this provocative topic, one never knows what will emerge . . .
I love today’s illustration! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
Thanks Ruth!
Oh, the memories this brings back of picnics invaded by marching lines of food stealers! Farewell, dear cheese!
Ah well, there’s always more mac and cheese!
Fun limericks! Your happy spoon looks like its had its fill of mac n cheese!
Thanks Buffy! perhaps one never knows …
tee hee….the smile on the spoon is my favorite….all roads lead to mac & cheese in my tummy. Great illustration!
Thanks Linda!
Mac n Cheese at a picnic defending their territory! Just too clever for words.
Thanks Margaret, I knew for me this poem had to be a limericks, and all else fell in line.
Limericks!
Foolishness!
Cheesiness!
PLUS, a magic something few of us add, original ART.
But your drawing (in this case, cartooning) is professional & perfect.
FUN post. Long may we toast.
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Thanks Jan, silly topics seek silly antics!
What fun! After al this mac and cheese goodness, I’m getting hungry. Maybe I can join the ants!
Thanks Kay, watch out those ants are hungry!
Love your limerick and artwork! Silly and fun!
Thanks Kiesha!
Your illustration is fabulous! Love.
Thanks Laura!