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Clerihew Poems

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A clerihew is a form of short humorous verse, typically biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view, but there is more to a clerihew. What is clerihew in poetry (complete definition)?

Parting Ways
At this point she has exceeded her lifespan and the time has come for an upgrade. It sounds so impersonal to speak of her simply as a tool. She was a constant, from the...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement, conflict, death, dedication,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Pasta Verdi Opera
Verdi ha scritto molte opere tante quante sono le forme di pasta ma solo la pasta può essere goduto in meno di tre ore. Verdi wrote many operas as many as there are shapes of pastas but here’s a point...Read the rest...
Categories: humor,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member Florence Nightingale
Social reformist Florence Nightingale - her many good deeds make for a fascinating tale. Not only a nurse was she content to be. An innovative statistician was she. ...Read the rest...
Categories: woman,
Form: Clerihew

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Premium Member Mark Carney
Mark Carney: A smart, gifted man and that's no blarney! Politically speaking, he's been on the perimeter, but he could be Canada's next Prime Minister....Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, political,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member A TURNER ekphrasis
English artist Turner J M W a visual manifesto did pursue To the countryside,he did go & hazy abstracts he made flow...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Clerihew



Premium Member CLERIHEW B H DAY
Benjamin Henry Day invented printing in shades of grey In comics there are lots&lots of his famous Benday dots...Read the rest...
Categories: art,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Bishop Mariann Budde
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde speaks about what America should be. She is truly a person of honor and dignity. Why should she apologize for just asking for mercy?...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Mark Twain
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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: men,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member INERTIA and ISAAC NEWTON
So restless was Isaac Newton with physics laws had so much fun Defining the inertia of truth shows he was quite a sleuth...Read the rest...
Categories: science,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Michael Caine
Actor with a Cockney accent, Michael Caine - For decades he's been an icon. May he continue to reign. In 160 films on the big screen he’s been seen, and also he was knighted by great England’s queen....Read the rest...
Categories: celebrity,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member A TRIBUTE CLERIHEW to John Denver
Henry John Deutschendorf aka Denver the 70's most prolific song dispenser Country Roads his biggest popular hit amongst a great many I would submit ...Read the rest...
Categories: music, song, star,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Jimmy Carter's Life
One hundred-year-old Jimmy Carter Loved nature and in Georgia Conservancy a charter (member) He vetoed the damn for the Flint Some people's dreams left at a sprint...Read the rest...
Categories: age, community, conflict,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Alfred Hitchcock
English "Master of Suspense" director Alfred Hitchcock would appear in his own movies, a character with bulk! In "Psycho," one of his best movies from long ago, Hitchcock's cameo appearance was at the start of that show....Read the rest...
Categories: people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member JOHN DEWEY in rhyme
Vermont's phlosopher/teacher John Dewey advocated art sans ennui Suggesting the genre '  experiential' practitioners fulflled their potential...Read the rest...
Categories: art, teacher,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member ACTION MAN wilhem
Dutch American Wilhem de Kooning made his gestural actions sing With intiuitive painterly flux experiential spontaneity ever the crux...Read the rest...
Categories: art, word play,
Form: Clerihew

Specific Types of Clerihew Poems

Read wonderful clerihew poetry on the following sub-topics: celebrities, christmas, fame, friends, funny, kids, love, nature, school, spongebob, trump and more.

Definition | What is Clerihew in Poetry?

Poems Related to Clerihew

absurd, bio, comical, humorous, nonsense, verse, whimsical


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