Death Clerihew Poems

Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief
bigotry gave her grief
failing health, unsteady,
she railed, “Get my swan costume ready!”...

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Emily Dickinson was her name
To her – poetry wasn’t a game
She lived & loved through verse & rhyme
Her words will flow through all of time....

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Charles Bronson, star of "Death Wish," 
  Served punks icy-cold revenge dish.

  On body counts, he raised the ante.
 America's screen one-man vigilante...

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Spaniard Juan Gris
with an early death his cubism ceased
Many faceted a bit like Picasso
'Possibilities of Painting' his credo...

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MK Gurlionis composer& symbolost
found art so difficult to resist
Before his too early death
dreamy world abstracts gave him breath...

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Dear friend and poetess Connie Wong
wrote poetry as lovely as a song.
Reading others’ poems was her passion.
If words were clothes, she was always in fashion.

Sweet...

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Hart Crane of Garrettsville
a tragic poet if you will
'The Bridge'  vision of America
jumped to this death north of Cuba...

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Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April...

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Richard Michael Mayall
On June 9, 2014 took his last pratfall,
Noted for his energetic “post-punk” style
The English comedic actor elicited many a smile. 

FOURTH PLACE WINNER
Written...

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Robert pouseo of Elizabeth Barrett B
a poet until her death was to be
He introduced the conversational
in dramatique monologue truth to tell...

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Harold Shipman, known as Fred,
killed 250 patients dead.
A serial killer prolific -
“Angel of Death” or “Mr Horrific”?

In Shipman’s Aftermath

Medical practice in England got changed
so that...

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Dr. Fauci turned grouchy
   Bit his lip, got an ouchie  

      Kept his mask on, bled to...

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Artist Victor Willing
nudes were hisparticular thing
Suffering from the illness MS
brought about his early death,I guess...

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Patrick Henry Brace US modernist
at painting did not persist
His semi abtracts did not sell
and suicide was his death knell...

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stretch artist, A. Modigliani amplifies
sketching curvilinear bodies, weak eyes 
his far-fetching figures still mystify us
despite his premature death to meningitis.

May 10, 2022...

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