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Clerihews

Clerihews

A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.

Hail birthday girl Joyce
the gentleman's choice
who wait for her sighting
with each bolt of lightning

© Kåre Enga (8.july.2019) [176.137]

Will Donald Trump's hair
light the New World's Fair
or will his torch flame
Good America's name

© Kåre Enga {8.july.2019) [176.138]

Can we bow to Megan Rapinoe
who by now we all must surely know
bows to no one who can't play at all
yet plays alone with smallish balls

© Kåre Enga {8.july.2019) [176.139]

And here's to dear Melania
who deals with egomania
by hiding out where Don can't find
the inner reaches of his mind

© Kåre Enga {8.july.2019) [176.140]

When I remember Trump
will I think of every chump
or will I recognize
it was all about his size

© Kåre Enga {8.july.2019) [176.141]

Allison Goodnight
tattoos at midnight
on bulging brawn
the promise of dawn

© Kåre Enga {8.july.2019) [176.142]

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