Best Huguenot Poems
Brilliance and MadnessBrilliance and Madness
Howard Robard Hughes
Famously rich recluse
Dreams led him to the lap of luxury
Followed by nightmarish mysophobic OCD
Rich playboy aviator Howard Hughes
With movie starlets kept himself amused
Dated Katherine Hepburn
Bette Davis took her turn
And still more, which kept the tabloids confused
Born Howard Robard Hughes to a...
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Categories:
huguenot, celebrity, film, flying, mental
Form:
Clerihew
The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Oh bloody and evil Catherine de Medici.
The queen has acted impetuously.
Thousands have died because of her demands.
Witness her red bloodstained hands.
A wedding is a time of joy and jubilation.
Instead, there is death and devastation.
She thought the Huguenots would seek retaliation.
It started with an attempted assassination.
An...
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Categories:
huguenot, history, death, death, evil,
Form:
Quatrain
To the Gallant RemainTo the gallant ‘remain’ I direct this refrain; to the hearts and great souls I see there; and maintain.
That we are not so much different that not all is estranged;
We both yearn betterment in so much we are same!
I hate not my neighbour; I hate...
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Categories:
huguenot, patriotic, tribute, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme