Here's mine:
Basketry as a pastime
I've experienced for the last time.
'Cos nothing makes me sicker
Than wicker.
2007-06-21 04:39:31 · 14 answers · asked by captbullshot 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
sounds a bit like a limerick to me, and I have never heard of a clerihew - sorry!
2007-06-21 04:44:04 · answer #1 · answered by essdee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The awful nefarious President Bush
In the Oval office sat on his tush
Making up schemes involving WMD's
And doing whatever the neocons please.
[Not terribly funny, but obeying all the rules of a clerihew.]
karny drop the last two lines, draw the others together and you've got something approximating a clerihew. See the article I posted as source..
]luna Emily's not the only poet with that last name. there's also Bruce. Peter, Don, and Rob and that's only the beginning of the list.]
[Capbullshot Did you realise you example is not a clerihew?]
2007-06-21 12:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Got his kicks writing licks for the gentry
procrastination no equal
23 years for a sequel
2007-06-21 14:39:17 · answer #3 · answered by acari27 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wrote these back in my college days:
William Shakespeare
Made a career
Writing poems and lots of verse
Which scholars praise and students curse.
Singer Billy Ray Cyrus
Must have caught a virus;
Now the poor guy has to start
Looking for a cure for his Achy Breaky Heart.
2007-06-21 13:29:33 · answer #4 · answered by Starfall 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love yours! I've never heard of one before, but I'll try.
All kinds of sleek machinery
Make up my desktop scenery.
But the tangled wires below
I cannot show.
Oh. That's not funny at all. Okay, I'm trying again:
Robert Frost preferred woods with snow,
Ravens for Edgar Allen Poe,
Dickinson was a "nobody"
Where in the world does that leave me?
I'm not insulting Emily Dickinson, I'm referring to http://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/dickinson/nobody.html . The other two you can figure out.
Oh, well. I wrote two lame poems. That was fun.
2007-06-21 13:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by luna_lovegood 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never been asked to write a clerihew,
And don't really know what to do.
Is it to do with the rhyme
Or am I wasting my time.
Nose picking
Is finger sticking
Up both nostrils
Until it kills
2007-06-21 11:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Heres a poem mate
just for you to rate
but you`ll have to do it quicker
course I have a dicky ticker.
2007-06-21 11:47:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Captbullshot
Is full of got
He's simply a feckin' man
A bit of a wormy can
2007-06-21 11:53:31 · answer #8 · answered by Stella S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't clarihew's supposed to be about people?
Anyhoo, here's mine:
Abraham Lincoln
Soon stopped blinkin'
With a bullet in his head
Too bad he is dead
2007-06-21 11:49:34 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
May all the coins in life land heads up!
and dream your dreams a size too big, so you can grow into them.
2007-06-22 09:45:11 · answer #10 · answered by pixie007 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋