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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)?

Sue the Squad

Bernie Sanders, AOC Ilhan Omer, Rashida Tlieb All give aid and comfort to Hamas, our sworn enemy Sue them all for treason -- the Constitutional remedy...Read More

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas Star of Spartacus. An excellent actor and movie star was he. He lived to be one hundred and three. 5/11/21 ...Read More

MULTIPLE manifestations

The silk-screenish Andy Wahol had depersonalised depictons as a goal Look closer within & you will see abstracted images in much variety ...Read More

IMPRINTS of IDENTITY

The visual happenings of Ives Klein are particularly difficult to define With blue now labelled IKB &female body-brush creativity...Read More

S and D railway

In 1821 began by S&DR the world commenced to travel by railwaycar Pulled by No 1,the very first locomotive & christened by Stephenson&Co ....the Active...Read More

ALFONSE of austria

Alfonse Walde* of Kitzbuhel descent an artist of the Secessionist bent Up the Hannenkam often did stroll painting scenes of his beloved Tyrol *1891-1958 ...Read More

A BODY in motion

Monsieur Duchamp ,christened Marcel much famed now by his dada urinal but ,in actualité truth to tell fragmented movement*,rang his bell ...Read More

More Clerihews Set 2

Richard Milhous Nixon communicated with a one word lexicon – the all-purpose “eff” – the official mantra of his White House lingua franca. To Marie Antoinette the executioner this assurance gave: “Madame, the blade is by Gillette. I guarantee a clean...Read More

N A and all that

Contests are quite a too do on PoetrySoup if contestants must jump through a hoop an N/A just means place not awarded nothing more nor less is intended...Read More

Eight Clerihews

Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph of course, just what we didn’t need to hear – bad news with speed. Salvadore Dali aped the life Bohemian his outlandish eccentricity was naturally simian. Richard Wagner wrote many a long-winded opera. A genius, he led...Read More

For his Art

John James Audubon painted birds with great distinction but shot them first and thus saved them, he believed, from extinction....Read More

IF MUSIC BE --- play on

Delfts Johannes Reijnies Vermeer as an artist had no peer He depicted many a virginal each played by a 'talented gal '...Read More

A WINDOW on HiS art

An artist of some skill was Vermeer yet did his self-portrait from the rear Please note though,the interior windows small lattice,not bows...Read More

Following Her Nose

Barbra Streisand, she of the over-sized nose, ...Read More

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Definition | What is Clerihew in Poetry?

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