Three lime rickeys

1. Candle Limerick

A candle’s a weak sort of giimmer stick.
It makes a wee flame with a dimmer wick.
But a candle won’t fail ya
if its paraffinalia
ignites a bright light in your limerick!

2.   Limerick de l’amérique     

Girls bring home the gold in gymnastics!                                                                        
Smart babies eschew chewing plastics.
Oathbusters in hard hats
wipe high heels on bath mats, 
impeaching their speeches as “bumbastic.”

Guess what! I hired John Philip Sousa
to produce the whole lollapalooza!  
Quite a cap on my feather!
with ideal baseball weather
to a dog dreaming dreams about catching four-seamers on Italy’s isle, Lampedusa!            

3. Go jolly

Go jolly — a phrase I remember
like a souvenir leaf in November.
But what does it signify
and how does it dignify
the landscape of which it’s a member?

I guess I‘ll begin a new stanza
and try to come up with the anza.
Reliable Google
is proving too frugal,
distracting with clips from “Bonanza.”

“Go jolly” — it has a Zen sparsity.
Too modest to go out for varsity.
it builds a word palace
from the aurora borealis:
a feat of improbable artistry.

By golly, I’m grasping light rays
And losing my way in this phrase. 
Perhaps there’s a season
for both rhymes and reasons
when limericks have their field days!