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The Clerihew
What's a Clerihew?
Four short lines about someone,
Famous now or dead and gone.
A pair of couplets for this game,
The first line is your victim’s name.
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EDISON
Thomas Alva Edison
Invented the bulb with discipline.
Without the Wizard of Menlo Park
We’d all be living in the dark.
EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein
Had a relatively brilliant mind.
If you should doubt or ever dare to
He could simply mc² you.
MONET
The water lilies of Monet
Drift upon a canvas bay.
A master of his profession,
He made a good Impression.
T.S. ELIOT
Eliot was under the delusion
That everything's an allusion.
Each line from T.S.
Requires a P.S.
© Charles Ghigna
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6 comments:
Thank you for the fun, Charles. I loved the word play in your poems here. These would make a great history book, a time line of clerihew!
A.
Here’s a blog by Father Goose.
A poem each week, he ties his noose.
"Publish or perish!" demands this writer.
Feel the rope pull tight and tighter.
-Amy LV
Thanks, Amy! I'm honored! ;-)
These are great! Will have to try a clerihew sometime.
These are hysterical! I love the one on Monet.
This post has been filed in my "Ideas for Next School Year/Poetry" file on my computer desktop. I'm thinking that next year's Ohio Inventors reports will be multi-modal and a clerihew would be a perfect addition!
Oh, these are fabulous! Monet is my favorite.
I love writing in poetic forms, the clerihew always escapes me. I've tried several times. Maybe I'll give them another go...Thanks for sharing these.
P.S. Nice, Amy!
P.P.S. Toby, I know what you mean...but I still want to see your celebrity author clerihew.
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