Time 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...

Read More

Jean Francois Millet ,a realist
picturing  peasants ,did not desist
Quiet time prayer 'The Angelus'*
more evangelical than strict religious


...

Read More

   Caitlin Who?
   Girl's yet to hear a boo.

      Let her play pro ball for a...

Read More

A poet, Charlotte Bronte (pen name Currer Bell),
was eldest of three sisters; novels she wrote as well.
A  Gothic style in first person narration she...

Read More

England’s Dame Agatha Christie
wrote novels with plots often twisty.
Best-selling fiction writer of all time,
her Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot solved many a crime.
...

Read More

Emily Dickinson was her name
To her – poetry wasn’t a game
She lived & loved through verse & rhyme
Her words will flow through all of time....

Read More

Carol Burnett hosted a comedy show
And every week when it was time to go
A tug on her earlobe meant 'hi' to her grandmother.
Surely one earlobe...

Read More

Written: October 05, 2023
____________________________________________________________

Jimmy Page
Once upon a time, you were quite the rage
He used to play for both you and me.
We admire all you do...

Read More

Gold Medal Marathoner, Susan Ashley
Never can be accused of acting rashly
Carefully crafts each word, line, and stanza
Wowing us with her prolific free-verse poetry bonanza!

Silver Medal...

Read More

Alexander Borodin
chemist by profession
Member of the 'Mighty Handful' five
composed part-time & did not strive...

Read More

Well, I remember my Mom as the Iron lady forever
I fear no more her strictest rules
I am now back on stage with this clerihew
I was...

Read More

Victor Pasmore ursued art part-time 
it suited circumstance just fine
From the figurative to the abstract
his sensitive line are an actual fact...

Read More

An intellectual was George Meridith
became  poet almost forthwith
He devoted his life to penning rime
'Modern love' occupied theme ,& his time...

Read More

Minework/poet Joseph Skipsey
reading helped his mind be free
He found the time to tech himself
finding fame but little wealth...

Read More

Herman Melville once a cabin boy
his fiction/poetry gives such.joy
As a customs mn he spent his time
writing materpieces in rhyme...

Read More