Thank you to @prufarchy @serejandmyself and @timsaid for creating, funding, and posting these Poetry Slam Challenges. The contests are more than just fun. They build the Steemit community, they turn dusty gears in the brain, and they bring people together, reading each other's work! Beyond that, these poetry challenges have given me an idea... I'd like to go into nursing or retirement homes and start poetry challenges there. These are such great mental exercises and they would benefit older people so much. (Including me, I'll turn 50 this year!)

Anyway, the limerick challenge got me really excited for a few reasons. My maiden name is McPeak. My ancestors are Irish (and Scottish), I play the violin (fiddle), and it's possible that verse is encoded in my DNA. I sometimes think in verse! So, here's my poetry slam entry. This is my own original work. I don't know if limericks usually have titles, but I gave one to mine.

From Liquor to Vicar

There once was a barkeep quite sinister
When he wanted a girl he just Guinessed her
But the women he smirched
Got converted and churched
So he changed his vocation to minister