History Clerihew Poems

   
   The renowned Columbia professor, Edward Sa’id
   influenced many thousands in thought and in deed

   Pre-1970,...

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Engiish-born Edward Lear
loved nursery rhyme we do hear
They inspired him to invent the limerick
which still makes online poetry sites tick...

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 "You must never say never." 

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Free market economist, Ludwig Von Mises
Ably pinpointed economic diseases.
Yet, when we’re told the feds fixed the great depression,
Ludwig knew it was caused by fed intervention....

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Sidney Poitier, was good at his trade,
with stellar acting skills above the grade.
Made history in 64; when he actually won,
His exceptional gift was second to...

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Karl Marx was a historian and scholar
  Groucho Marx whooped it up and hollered

    Both of them were starved for attention
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The senseless, brutal murder of Emmett Till
       In 1955 haunts America's consciousness, still.

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Anna Mae Bullock aka Tina Turner 
Was a trailblazer of rock and a fast learner.
Made history getting on the cover of Rollin Stone, 
An icon...

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Engraver George Vertue
a father of art history to give him his due
He thought pastel 'the' medium
it does makes for messy finger&thumb...

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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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Momofuku
what did you do
took a dried noodle
and made a caboodle

a country in famine
you took time to examine
and created fast food
to feed the whole brood...

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Carle(aka Charles-Andre) van Loo
a French painter not too many knew
Success with prolific quantity
history though sadly says little quality...

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Michelangelo Merisi
came from Caraaggio to be free
with a history of hooliganism in Milan
his art helped* redeem this sad epigram


*https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/young-sick-bacchus...

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Edgar Allan Poe
Died in 1849, you know.
We heard his telltale heart beneath the floor;
Then quoth the raven: nevermore!

Napoleon Bonaparte,
His marriage to Josephine got blown apart.
Her...

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Permit me ,Kenneth Yasuda,to present
an author of American/Japanese descent
The Essential Haiku his noteworthy book
don't take my word,just take a look*

*https://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Haiku-Essential-Nature-History-ebook/dp/B005LPUAUE/ref=sr_1_2?crid=9I3YVY94ORY&keywords=kenneth+yasuda+the+japanese+haiku&qid=1636366464&s=books&sprefix=kenneth+yasuda+the+japanese+haiku%2Cstripbooks%2C873&sr=1-2e...

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