Sorrow Clerihew Poems

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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President John F Kennedy,
made America space ready,
shot when in the prime of his life,
he died next to his loving wife!


1st placement
written 17/11/2020
Brian Strand

QUAT-RO 4 line...

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Miss Mary Prince
Was not seen since
She brought home her boa constrictor
I guess the snake did more than lick her....

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Light is awaking,

New dawn is breaking,

A breathtaking morning,

Now faces scream warning!
Spreading lava!
Getting faster!
Eruption!
Destruction!
Shaking!
Taking!
Dark.


(by Jemima Faith Childress)...

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Ludwig Van Beethoven played piano
with passion and sorrow,
But did he notice the crowds awestruck breath?
(For I heard he was deaf)

Ray Charles came some centuries after
bringing...

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* In response to a challenge...


Had a big crush on David Williams;
All his verses read like plums.
But given his marriage of forty years,
I’ll quench my...

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CIRCULAR SILENCE

In the circumference of silence is pain
In the center of quietude is disdain
In the middle of a circle is an ill-gotten gain
And on the...

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FOREVER SHOULD  BE SPELLED FOUR EVER
    BECAUSE, BABY, YOU MIGHT RATE FOUR MONTHS AT BEST 

Baby, this is forever like Never-Neverland
Where...

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