Music Clerihew Poems

Sylvester Stewart
for funky music had a heart
his music craft he did hone
and became known as Sly Stone
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Mary Alin Travers
grew up to do what mattered
she sang with Peter and Paul
and with her voice did us enthrall
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John..Paul..George..Ringo Starr
four Liverpool lads with drums+guitar
From Hamburg 's Reeperbahn
to a famous worldwide yarn...

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Warren William Zevon
weird themes his music touched on
without a care or bother
he gave us Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
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Albert Einstein, 
a friend of mine, plays the violin so fine -   
hire him for a birthday or festivity, 
and ask him about...

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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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