Family Clerihew Poems

Kaaliammal Palanisamy...
Count to be nascient grandmammy.. 
Though pecuniary gravy of grandpa made family patriarchy, 
The fish gravy of grandma maintain the family matriarchy....

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Blaise Alexander Desgoffe&family
painting fame was theirs you see
Blaise becoming a 'Chevalier wwd'honneur'
with breakfast piece made quite a stir...

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The Strauss family dynasty
maestros indeed all three
Johann Joseph & of course Richard
both musicians& bard...

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Family Barholdy Mendelssohn 
Felix the composer is best known
Creatively gifted from his teens
like or hate him there's no in-between...

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From the erudite family ofHuxley
cane Aldous with poetics so free
Penning satirical novels so well
his posey perhaps too metaphysical...

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Mother kissed father, and tripped.
Father told children, and ripped.
Mother returned; children kissed mother.
Children told father, and bother.
Mother weep; children missed.
Mother tell; Father kissed....

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Lucian of the famed Freud family
powerful portraits were his u s p
The human figure made him sing
often pictured sans everything...

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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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John Robert Cozens was all poetry
with Constable critique& comentary
Art ran in his family
Alexander of 'Blof fame' was his dad you see...

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Sculptor Edwardo Paolozzi
of an Italian family tree
Juxtaposotion to art did bring
the fragmentary entwined his thing...

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Natalia Goncharova well born you see
linked indeed to Pushkin family tree
Collaborated with Lasiono
progressive Cubism she cap did doff...

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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection.
Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

Michael J. fox 


Michael J. Fox
comic genius as he...

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Two sons had 'Peasant' Bruegel
Pieter 'the elder' nicknamed hell
another known as 'younger' with 'h' in his name 
second son Jan ,also with his art,found fame...

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Hannah Rayburn*
shared virtues she did learn
blest in her growing-up endeavor 
inspired by Dad, a Holocaust survivor.

Emma 'Grace' McKee
showed values of spirited glee
along joyously functional friendship**
midst...

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Ray Barone
Gets into trouble on his own
He's a sports writer and a family man
Part of a dysfunctional Italian clan


Debra Barone
Her husband does things she cannot...

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