Samuel Langhorne Clemens
had a wit as acidic as a lemon
to many pompous people he was a pain
especially with his pen name Mark Twain
Categories:
clemens, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
American humorist and writer, Mark Twain
born as Samuel Clemens, his name in history does not wane.
He attacked Big Business with “The Gilded Age.”
An observant journalist as well, Twain was very sage.
Categories:
clemens, men,
Form: Clerihew
Samuel Langhorne Clemens-
Born, it was his name
But be it said- his name in fame
The poet known- "Mark Twain"
Categories:
clemens, character,
Form: Verse
There's a poet on our site,
Who can really tell a story.
He looks at everyday affairs,
And then weaves tales of glory.
The way he writes he takes you there.
He draws his readers in,
With colorful description,
Of adventure, laughter, kith and kin.
The Clemens of the outback,
Our personal Mark Twain.
It's a privilege to read for him.
For certain he's got game.
If you wonder who I'm talkin' 'bout,
If you want to know his name,
Lindsay Laurie is his handle,
Of The Soup's poetic fame.
Categories:
clemens, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
We all once read the same great books in school
Shakespeare, Dickens, Samuel Clemens, Hemingway
Each one a classic, thought to be a jewel --
With plots and themes still relevant today
A widespread range of characters portrayed --
But now these treasures, written by white men
Are labelled racist and misogynist... Amen.
~ Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
clemens, literature, loss, sad, satire,
Form: Rhyme Royal
This country is young when compared to some
A prodigy though now I do declare
A one time she took in all that would come
Then said go west explore this land so fair
There were inventers here like Edison,
Tesla and Bell, writers like Clemens too
It's a land were freedom has surely come
It's a country were I can worship true
Sometimes we have spats like any family
But we come out stronger then we were 'fore
To build a land that so many envy
That guards are needed so our borders secure
I love this land that I have always known
It is were I cherish what I call home
8/31/18
Entered in the "Your" Country Tis Of Thee Poetry Contest
and the New Sonnets Only Poetry Contest.
Categories:
clemens, america, patriotic,
Form: Sonnet
There once was a chef named Lew
who swore Samuel's words were true
that Sacred cows make
a great tasting steak
and the best hamburgers too.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Quote by Samuel Clemens (A.K.A. Mark Twain)
(1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
Categories:
clemens, humorous, imagery, satire,
Form: Limerick
I’m Huck, and my last name is Finn.
On the great Mississippi I’ve been
playing hooky from school
‘cause there ain’t any rule
that can keep Huckleberry caged in.
I bet that you’ve already read
about the fun life that I’ve led,
how I got a bad foe
that they called Injun Joe
and how me and Tom one time played dead!
I ain’t nothin’ special, just Huck.
In my boyhood forever I’m stuck.
Just one kid needs to look
at the words in Twain’s book
and I’ll stay alive - with any luck!
*My character, of course, is Huckleberry Finn, taken from the novel of the same title, written by a very witty humorist, Samuel Clemens, AKA Mark Twain.
Written 4/20/14 by Andrea Dietrich for the "Become a fictitious character taken from a book (or a movie) ! Free Poetry Contest" of Giorgio A.V.
Categories:
clemens, books,
Form: Limerick
The outfield Yaztremski Lynn and Evans
Is the greatest Red Sox outfield all time
Red Sox never had Seavers nor Ryans
Clemens and Tiant did shine in prime time
Francona is the man that made them shine
Winning two world series with him in charge
They had plenty of reasons to drink wine
Their pitchers are winners and their bats large
Nineteen-Eighty-Six was Buckner’s nightmare
Today Varitek is behind the plate
Helping Papelbon with his scary stare
The mighty Red Sox has somehow changed fate
Boston Red Sox are champions always
They’ll even make a few more double plays
This is a sonnet I wrote a few years ago.
Categories:
clemens, sports, red, red,
Form: Sonnet
"History doesn't repeat itself,
but it does rhyme"*
like the whine of swine
all drunk on wine
this viscous valentine
vents turbid turpentine
volcanic tectonics
of violent landmines
such slovenly, serpentine,
slips of sand
at end of time
as tears weeping
tsunamic sweeping
cesium creeping
the we rereading sky braille unseeing
signs and portents
content with contents
insistant attempts
at repealing events
and blindly concealing
our rifts and our rents
we prefer our unfeeling
and selfish intents
*from a quote of Samuel Clemens
Categories:
clemens, life
Form: Free verse
When Socretes, Plato and Aristotle teamed,
the line between the will to learn married the will to teach.
When Raphael, Leonardo, and Michael lived at Belvedere,
Art would see her form take shape and pave the way for years.
When Beethoven met Mozart on one Vienna spring,
the voice of God was heard through horizontally laid strings.
When Newton, Halley and Hooke looked through the glass and sky,
the universe shed her secrets to be more then meets the eye.
When Thomas, John and Ben picked up the pen to write,
an eagle spread its wings and from an olive branch took flight.
When Samuel Langhorne Clemens met Harriet Beecher Stowe,
the times of change were laid in names from characters' footholds.
When Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill assumed command,
fear and hatred would not be sated on another land.
When Lindbergh and Goddard pushed to see their common goal,
man was ready here and now to soar towards heaven's soul.
Categories:
clemens, education, history, hope, imagination,
Form: Carpe Diem