Success Clerihew Poems

Lady Dorothy Wellesey
quite a poet was she
she also became a Duchess
but verse brought her most success...

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Silkmaker John Gay
in opera had his say
'Beggar's Opera'was his success 
musical poetics  nontheless...

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Peggy Hawkins aka Margaret Keane
an artist who lived her dream
Portraits with 'big eyes' her usp
helped her up the 'success' tree...

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Domenico Donizetti of Bergarmo
made operetta into a ' show'
Born into great poverty
success did  ot come easily...

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Ken Howard was an artist
as filter to the world did persist
After struggles with the process
later found visual success...

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Franz Petrer Schubert of Vienna
had little success with genre opera
Theatre&orchestra was more up his street
with his songs few can compete...

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Dutchman Piet Mondrian
an austere&reclusive man
He had no commercial success
using horizontals&verticals to excess...

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Cubist/Surrealist Edward Wadsworth
an Englishman by birth
Achieving much artistic success
in abstractions in vogue then I guess...

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Rosalba Giovanna Carriera of whom to tell
success with pastels portraits did so well
In art she smashed the glsss ceiling
to all of Europe he talent did...

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Carle(aka Charles-Andre) van Loo
a French painter not too many knew
Success with prolific quantity
history though sadly says little quality...

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Fuseli forenamed Johan. Heinrich
was a bit of a art maverick
He had an obssession with women's hair
painted with abandon&sans a care*


*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare#:~:text=The%20Nightmare%20is%20a%201781%20oil%20painting%20by,infatuation%20and%20obsession%20was%20a%20huge%20popular%20success....

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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection.
Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.

Michael J. fox 


Michael J. Fox
comic genius as he...

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Vincent Willhelm van Gogh
a difficult talent to truly know
unwise love choices-Eugenie Kee&Sien
made him stick to brush not pen

Finance support from brother Theo
loosed his giftings to flow
in dark landscapes&still life
too bad,  without a  wife

From Ecole de Beau Arts a matric
In Antwerp he creates his pics
Then to Paris to mix with the best
lived an artist  life with great zest

Upon the death of Pa Theodorus
Vincent does portraits&busts
as his love life to Margot ails
so also his pointillism fails

He then met Agostina Segatori
& a brief affair the world did see
An interest in all things Japanaise
then to Arles were the sun does blaze

The artists colony  was not a success
Vincent cut off an -ear-but I digress
progressively VG became deluded
'a mad redhead,'the locals said

Genius & delusion marries as one
but a recognisable usp is done
with broad brush& wavy line
a reputation to outlast his time

In Arles he is hospitalised
&unique art realised-
then with a gun suicides
on canvas though his genius resides...

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Dr. Jonas Salk
Cursed by colleagues’ malicious talk
His vaccine a success
His reputation a mess

A genius of sorts
But questionable reports
Made it no surprise
He never received a Nobel...

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Shirley Temple, cute-as-could-be child star
Raised to new heights film's song-and-dance bar
   
   First melted our hearts on 'The Good Ship Lollipop'
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