Love Clerihew Poems

Death's cosmic cryptic child Edgar Allen Poe
Whose spirit danced and was drenched in woe
Words were his secular style shields 
Sugar skull sentences steam today in...

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The illustrious Lucille Ball
For Ricky, she would fall
Left the world a little better
For everyone who met her!

I Love Lucy, the hit tv show,
With Ricky as...

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Melodic ingenuity of Ludwig van Beethoven
raised music to the realm of art, cadence woven.
A piano virtuoso, he turned into a composer unique,
initiated the romantic era...

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Silk stocking filled with mud was Talleyrand.
With the future of France held in his hand,
He played kibitzer-informed cards with skill,
Maneuvering a Congress to his will.

There...

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Margaret Thatcher 
thought no one could match her.
Her hair was laquered, never a mess;
she bought her knickers from M&S.

She did as she wanted to do...

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a millionaire richer than the king,
with innocence he is but masking,
that he is out to ruin the country,
in process will fill his own pantry!

he kicked...

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
would love to rip out your spleen
if Trump’s not the center of your world.
Her radical convictions she has loudly unfurled.

That she’s antisemitic...

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Munch Red & White*
a perfect pictorial delight
An allegory of types of love some say
look&make of what you may...

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Painter Arthur Hughes
in pre-raphaelite who' who's
'April Love'* a reverse ecphrasis
depicting a love affair in crisis...

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The 'Voice-Summer night'*
Edvard Munch first love at sight
Milly ever on his mind
a dalliance of the romantic kind...

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Venus,Goddess of Love sans her mascara
central lady in Sandro's' La Primavera'*
Simonetta Vespucci as this supermodel
To Bottecelli close-ups were a doddle...

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August Macke German Expessionist
clearly an 'art enigmatist'
'Lady in green'* an example thereof
full of wistfulness of a lost love...

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George Frederick Watts was led
to 'paint ideas not things' he said
'Love&Life' * a good example
symbolism to see&sample...

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Composer John Ireland once did begin
music for his only hymn
'on the back of a menu twas first shown
twas entitled' My song is love unkown...

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John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry, 
a wife and twelve children also had...

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