Music Clerihew Poems

A familiar voice sharing the past,
Remembering a place that didn’t last.

Sifting through ashes of another life,
Searching for beauty amongst the strife. 

Anguish surrounds me, a...

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Basque-born Maurice Ravel
a musique-impressionist truth-to-tell
Influenced by Claude Debussey
versatile & with fluency...

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German composer Johann Sebastian Bach -
Emotive depth and his “blue notes” were his music’s bedrock.
Having fathered twenty children and always on his toes,
how did he...

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Austrian-born composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
learned fast and young to be prolific in his art.
Famous for nearly four centuries now throughout history,
he left the world at...

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John Cameron Fogerty
gave us music of quality
with that phenomenal sound
CCR did abound
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Paul Frederick Simon
who is nicknamed rhymin’
for a while on Art Garfunkel was reliant
and gave us The Sounds of Silence
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Master of Music was Arthur Bliss
giving composition his delicate kiss
So varied his accomplished reportoire
straightforward never bizarre...

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Munich born Carl Heinrich Orff
a talented composing boff
Known for his cantata Burana
twenty-four poetic nirvana...

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Tara McNiell - 
your heart will steal,
once the lady fair
fiddles as flames fly through the air, 
but it's only Tara's hair. 
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Eric Patrick Clapton
failed at being a sea captain
great guitarist who started many bands
and earned the sobriquet Slow Hand
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Jerome John Garcia
was into smoking reefer
as a guitarist his music was in his head
so he formed The Grateful Dead 
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Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
sang about the people who lived roughly
he wrote and sang earthy songs a plenty
and he was friend and mentor to many
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English composer the talented Ruth Gipps
excelled in her musicianship
Her progidious polyr-ability
produced many a tune-filled symphony

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George Ivan Morrison
the singing Irishman
really earned his money
my favorite song is Tupelo Honey
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Willie Nelson
likes to play music for fun
he doesn’t need money for his family to feed
but as a sideline he developed his own brand of weed
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