Health Clerihew Poems

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

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Joe B climbs up that very steep hill
  to the WH, hand-in-hand with his wife Jill
 
    Though Joe often falls...

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Well, I remember my Mom as the Iron lady forever
I fear no more her strictest rules
I am now back on stage with this clerihew
I was...

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Poet Helen Jackson nee Fiske
moved to Colorado improve her health risk
She once schooled with friend Emily D
with native culture was her empathy...

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Samuel Taylor Colleridge of some poetic intellect
sadly his health he could not protect
Opium became a daily habit
ruining hismarriage his  life quite a bit...

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Rembrandt's portraiture made him great wealth 
unfortunately that was not good for his health
He spent unwisely& never could save
ending up sadly,dead,in a poor mans' grave...

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Ms. Kamala Harris
Not in the least embarrassed
   by prohibitive costs
   when private insurance is tossed...

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Aneurin Bevan
must sit uneasy in heaven
the national health service was his endeavour
instant treatment not wait forever.


penned 23 January 2019...

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There was an American laddie named McCoy,
his inventions the steam locomotives joy,
although the powers to be drank to his health,
made sure he didn’t share in...

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Huffy Puffy had a smoke

Huffy Puffy had to choke

All the king’s doctors and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Huffy Puffy’s lungs together again....

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Russian spy A. Litvinenko 
Had no heart, for a status quo;
But, when he revealed his odium, 
He earned the deadly polonium....

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