Soldier Clerihew Poems

English ppoet Rupert Brooke
hs abab style is worth a look
'The Soldier' ,England of a bygone time
but 'Chilterns' for me nostalgia in rime...

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Napoleon, the Military Commander,
Rose to prominence as the indefatigable French leader.
Stood on victor’s podium for long, but Fate pulled down Bonaparte.
A deflated balloon in Waterloo,...

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Soldier/poet John McCrae
his words remembered to this day
On days of Remembrance
his verse both scan&dance...

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For Dennis Bruce Wilson of Thame
as a hobby poetry was hid game
Famed for his WWIi elegy
'A Common Soldier' for all to see...

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Rear Admiral “Amazing Grace” Hopper
To her colleagues quite the show stopper
She turned computers to household items
And now humans know how to control them

A counter-clockwise clock...

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Sir Lancelot
didn't smoke pot
   He wielded a shield and a mask
   ~ A wineskin and a flask...

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Charlie Sheen
 Once played a soldier on the big screen
 But he turned to booze and women
Living large on Two and a Half Men...

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You think that security belongs to you
Because you have done all you need to do
You think that wisdom belongs to a few
Because the rest of...

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