Best Famous Person Poems


Premium Member Mel B

Former Spice Girl, known as Mel B,
will no longer judge the show, AGT.
Labeled an addict of sex,
she enjoyed the male performers' great pecs!

March 21, 2019 for the Clerihew Contest
for Tania Kitchin's Celebrity Or Famous Person Clerihew Poetry Contest

(AGT is acronym for America's Got Talent, one of my fave summer tv programs)
Will miss ya, Mel B!!

Premium Member The Elephant

The Elephant
By Franklin Price
3/2/2016

The elephant, the animal
The mascot of the red
A party controlled by very few
Filling the people up with dread

They let a famous person run
As a Republican,  a joke
Would capture all the media
But not be voted by the folk

Surprise, surprise did not work out
The people had their say
They chose the joke by voting
Did not vote the party way

Now the party's scrambling
Bad mouthing all they can
To negate the population's vote 
For the joke, who's now the man 

The elephant's resigning
The replacement is the pig
Who wallows deeper in the mud
Provides the pork the party digs

Premium Member Listen To the Children

We are all immigrants
We all have temporary residence here
This land is ours and theirs, yours and mine
We are humanity, stronger joined than apart
Never turn your back on a hungry child
You may be in the right
Lacking compassion
Makes you wrong
The disciples were scolded
Let the children come unto me he said
Life is filled with hardships, yes we all have suffered
So let your suffering hold some merit
Lay down your guns and loud voices
If only for the children
If you dance and celebrate for them
They shall lead you on to peace on earth


Note: A famous person once said "When they love their children, more than they hate us, we shall have peace"


Premium Member Living With a Mentally Handicapped Grandson

In the middle of the night a door slams
The awful scent of cigarettes floats upward penetrates my nostrils
Insomnia keeps him up and restless
Lying here I hear, smell and know that the worst is yet to come

Huntington's Disease slowly destroys brain cells
Mutant form of huntingtin aggregrates within the brain
It touches the connectors and interfers with the synaps
Extra dopamine causes his need for instant gratification

I taste the tears as they spill tumbling down
Feel the his fear, his terror of what lies ahead
I can hear his hurtful words as his temper flairs
Thankful for his hugs when he is calm

I am glad that he is able to work for inability lies ahead
Unless some researcher somewhere finds a treatment
If not only downhill slide is inevidible
Destruction of the brain will leave him unable to even swallow 

Let my tears spill down, overflow touch upon my face
Taste the salt as they touch my lips
Let me face the daylight hours with courage and strength
Today he might stumble and fall into the horrors of the disease 

Contest: In A Relationship With Disabled Person
Sponsor: W. Thomas Markham
One famous person with Huntington's Disease was Woody Gutherie
If you care to you can type in Woody Gutherie on YouTube and hear him..

Guts, Determination Blood Sweat and Tears

Guts, Determination Blood Sweat and Tears 
Who can say they have not used that combination
That is the combination that makes famous people, heroes and idles  
What is the difference between famous people, heroes, idles and you 
The amount of followers 

Let’s look at a famous people/ heroes/ idles

They have the guts to do something different 
They have the determination to do it the best they can 
They have hurt themselves for what they believe in 
They have cried when it all went wrong 
 They have raised a sweat just to get it right 

I want you to look at your life 
Through the eyes of your family 

You have the guts to make your family get out of bed 
You have the determination to help your family be better than you 
You have lost blood for each member of your family  
You have sweated your butt off to ensure comfort for your family 
You have shed a tear more than once for you family 

Why do we like famous people, heroes and idles  
Because they do something better than we can 
They make what they do look easy 
Famous people give us ideas, dreams and hope
But most of all 
Famous people, heroes and idles are people that we admire 

You have become a master at what you do 
Day by day you give love 
Day by day you give hope 
Day by day you share dreams 
Month after month your kids keep coming back to you 

With out knowing what you have done 
You have year after year 
Created a hero for your kids to idolize 
You have given advice to your friends 
You have shown kindness
You always manage to give away a smile when it is most needed
You have had a positive effect on others as well

You are: 
My Idol
My Hero 
My famous person

Give What You Can

we live in a star struck society being a celebrity is now the game
we seem to cheer louder for professional athletes and people with well known names
we also have a desire to be just like them if we could choose
and many feel that being a celebrity is the key to the fountain of youth

but what people fail to see or even comprehend
is that celebrities are nothing more than mere women and men 
and that there is no special powers that a famous person obtains
just because everybody knows your face and your name

and when it come to Jesus He doesn't care about your status nor place
He will welcome you in the spirit of love, mercy and grace
He will sit at the table with you and share a simple meal
some bread and wine in the spirit of communion and an acceptance so real

God does not care if you're a celebrity or a superstar
if that were the case the Bible would not mention the women with the alabaster jar
she was not a woman of status, wealth nor celebrity 
but she gave what she could to acknowledge Jesus' godly authority
yet those men in the room rebuked her for her generous act
until Jesus stood up for her in the midst of their verbal attack
He told them "leave her alone, as for Me she has done a good thing"
she gave Me her best, she anointed Me with fine oil as her true King

what people can't understand nor comprehend 
is that by doing things in Jesus' name blessings God will send
she broke open that alabaster jar she opened her soul to Christ
she gave what she could she gave the best that she had in life

give what you can that is all that Lord God desires
for you to give from the heart and with true faith to be inspired
to understand that being famous is not such a big to-do
but to be recognized by God and know that He loves you


Premium Member Cynosure

Cynosure

Umm..cynosure... what does that mean?
Oh yes, I see...something supreme.


Like dignitary, celeb, sight;
a focal point, or nucleus.
A stunner, prodigy, limelight,
a treasure, magnate, omphalos.

A hero, luminary, ace,
centrality, big gun, big name.
A famous person, worthy place,
or major leaguer of some fame.

A star, a personality;
a spotlight, center of it all.
Exemplar and epitome;
an archetype, original.

Top brass, top dog, a spectacle,
a wonderment or quintessence.
An act of God, a miracle;
immortal, beauty, eminence. 

Umm...cynosure...now understood.
To me, it means...superbly good.


Sandra M. Haight

~3rd Place~
Premiere Contest: Cynosure
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 07/01/2016

Premium Member Satire In Song

'Weird Al' Yankovic
'Eat It' - rock star parody wit
'Fat' 'Word Crimes' guardian
'White N' Nerdy' on the accordion.

3/24/19

For Celebrity or Famous Person Clerihew contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

Santa the Fat-Bellied Stranger

This is a poem I wrote for the Crazy Christmas Carol member contest.
It is in reference to Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. Hope you have some laughs!



Santa The Fat-Bellied Stranger


You know Batman and Robin
and Shakespeare and Poe
Oprah and Elvis
And Monet and Van Gogh
But do you recall
The most famous person of all?

Santa the fat-bellied stranger
(stranger)
Had a tummy full of ho's
(like Pavarotti)
And if he ever tried to
(tried to)
Couldn't even see his toes
(like a horse)
Now that he's getting older
(older)
With impotence and bum knees
(like McCain)
They never let poor Santa
(santa)
Savour all his common glees
(like Mrs. Claus)

Then one lonely Christmas Eve
Blue pill down the hatch
(please oh please)
Oh meds to my wife's delight
Won't you guide my libido tonight
Mrs. Claus from that day forward
(forward)
Always shouted out with glee
(have mercy)
"Santa you fat-bellied stranger
(stranger)
You'll go down in history!"
(like Casanova)




Author-SJS '08
© S Schantz  Create an image from this poem.

Poetry Response

(This is in response to the Poem
POETRY written by Richard Lamoureux)

I make the most sound but no noise
You'll hear me alright sans my voice.

Richard, look in my face there's no smile
But I won you over standing away many a mile.

Don't I tug at your heart though we haven't met?
You haven't seen any of my magic tricks yet!

Equally at home in a palace or a shanty shack
I have everything I need, nothing more I lack.

Oh, I do fall in; and ya, often fall out of love,
But I am not a cheat, I guess, by Jove!

But here's where we fall apart
A famous person is but a spoiled brat!

What I write, I do not retract or rewrite,
I get called out often, but I know I'm right.

But on one matter you and I do agree
The power of poetry do sets our spirits free!

So here is a poetic challenge for you, Mr. Lamoureux
Pick any of my poems to respond and make me fret or vex!!

Brady and His Footballs

Have you ever heard of that famous Tom Brady?
His deflated balls can’t even chase off the ladies.  
But he’s a legend that football has seemly created, 
so I named my puppy Brady...but his balls not deflated. 


Celebrity or Famous Person Clerihew Poetry Contest
Tania Kitchin
March 26, 2019

Mae West

Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West
Her double entrendre was simply the best
On how her life should be depicted 
Said ‘I used to be Snow White ~ but I drifted’

Written 21st March 2019

Contest: Celebrity or Famous Person Clerihew
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
1st place

Contest Brian's Select 8
Sponsor Brian Strand
3rd PLACE

Orange Lovers

Orange Lovers

The artist Michaelangelo
loved to eat a tangelo
and Da Vinci could be seen 
munching on a tangerine

Celebrity or Famous Person Contest
Sponsored by Tanya Kitchin
March 29, 2019

Premium Member The Man Inside

Robin Williams the first
of his lips humor would burst
he’d blare out Good morning Vietnam
Nanu Nanu a crazed madman I am



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Sponsored on March 23, 2019 for contest CELEBRITY OR FAMOUS PERSON CLERIHEW sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN   -  RANKED 3RD

Premium Member Charlie Chaplin

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

                            Charlie Chaplin European
                             Legendary comedian
                             Co-actress in performance
                             Graceful Edna Purviance.  

   03/24/19

                     Fifth Place
  'Celebrity or Famous Person in Clerihew Form' Contest by Tania Kichin

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