People Clerihew Poems | Examples
These People Clerihew poems are examples of Clerihew poems about People. These are the best examples of Clerihew People poems written by international poets.
David the Dendrite (it means Tree-Dweller)
how the people loved this eccentric fellow
for three years he lived in a tree
yes he was the saint of Thessaloniki
(real title is written in the Greek alphabet but oh no you can't use 'special characters')
Master of Music was Arthur Bliss
giving composition his delicate kiss
So varied his accomplished reportoire
straightforward never bizarre
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
Gaius Julius Caesar
was not a real people pleaser
he tried to set himself up as a monarch
but never made it past the Ides of March
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
had a wit as acidic as a lemon
to many pompous people he was a pain
especially with his pen name Mark Twain
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
a Prime Minister with many a skill.
Though his ideals by some were not favoured,
his victories by many were savoured.
Katsushige Mizuno
Is too awesome for just one lord, you know
For 15 years lived as a wanderer
Moving on from one liege to another
His father's serf once tattled on his misconduct
So he drew his sword upon the man and struck
Dad got sick of his wild displays
He swiftly sent the youth away
But neither scorn nor exile can put a hamper on his pluck
Though he at last went home and made up with dad
Who shortly died; that made him his family's head
Some people say that a rolling stone gathers no moss
But settling down and setting roots is no great loss
English "Master of Suspense" director Alfred Hitchcock
would appear in his own movies, a character with bulk!
In "Psycho," one of his best movies from long ago,
Hitchcock's cameo appearance was at the start of that show.
Elon Musk:
many people say he is brash and brusque;
and, to be honest, he kinda gives me the creeps
when I think about some of the company he keeps.
Demi Moore
An Arsenal football fan for sure
She once was a bill collector
But now she's a doll collector!
9-9-2024
William Charles Lunalilo
First King, chose by the people
Grandnephew of the Great King, as the people vote, was unanimous
Next year, King Kamehameha the Sixth died of tuberculosis
Hawaiian marriages are coconuts
Apple's eye, orchard nigh--girls uppercuts
Bees concede and confess
Honey is not the best
Lunalilo stings in-laws -- blood and guts.
Pacific divides paradise from lies, pulpit denies, missionary connives, fleece, devise hoax, and shanghais,
The native's supplies for whalers, all dives. At times, pearls for wider eyes, command contrives to control their lives.
Kings II & III foresaw their greed, the lands were a need to wed and achieve access was their way to succeed,
Lunalilo was short-lived, the people he decreed, as past kings agreed, a land trust deed, 'ere his life concedes.
Albert Einstein
In science he did shine
With great perceptivity
He gave us the theory of relativity
Relativity was buzzin'
With many theories, a dozen?
He took it a bit far
Some found it quite bizarre
When he married his own cousin!
Einstein met his first wife in school
He found her to be real cool
But he divorced her soon
To relativity's tune!
President Joe Biden
Must have his horizon's widened
When he practiced falling up stairs
I'm glad I wasn't there
There was a president from Delaware
Whom about poverty-stricken didn't care
He'd stumble up AirForce 1's stairs
Up in the air slept like a bear
While people on earth lived on such poor fare
He needs to step off his high horse
Let someone younger finish the course
So, the people of American can be great
And glad to close up the Alien's gate
Vladimir Putin
needs a swift ****-bootin'!
Stop inflicting so much pain
on the brave people of Ukraine!
Missouri's Thomas Sterns Eliot
loved the English life quite a lot*
His style remained American
as a very poetical craftsman