Wife Clerihew Poems

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The wife of del Giocondo
made famous by artist leonardo
Da Vincin'Mona Lisa'* with such style
so demure with an enigmatic smile

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John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry, 
a wife and twelve children also had...

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Joe B climbs up that very steep hill
  to the WH, hand-in-hand with his wife Jill
 
    Though Joe often falls...

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*Image of Remembering Sirs & AUDIO To Sir with Love by Lulu.

To Sirs with Love Clerihew

Christian Charles Roberts,
One of the converts,
Sir Sidney Portier's
East End school...

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One day
I was very disappointed when I went to visit the marriage counselor
Only to find him hitting his wife with a frying pan
He won't see...

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Abtract  pioneer Robert Delauney
one of the best of his day
His wife Sonia was an equal
an artist so natural...

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Arthur&Georgina Gaskin
skilful&innovative from Birmingham
Arts&crafts was their life
a very creative husband&wife...

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Mrs. Margaret 'Molly' Corbin:
A true Revolutionary War heroine. 
When her husband in battle fell dead, 
Though wounded, she fired his cannon instead....

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Nicholson 's spouse Mabel Pryde
too young with Spaish flu,she died
Yet like him a portraitist 
as wife & mother she did persist...

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Paolo Uccello nickname 'the bird'
an inventive painter you may not have heard
His wife said he loved perpective more than her
forehortenig did so naturally occur...

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She spoke herself as Goddess.
I am Mathamma Goddess to
The lute of lonely men.
I make divided couples,
That men shall suffer
And there loyalties are
Divided to make profit...

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a modern free form writer ee cummings
often his poems written in lower case with words rambling 
a poet, painter, author, speaker-  this was his...

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Cyril Power who had a wife named Dolly
was a champion linocutter*,by golly
after the Blitz,another art he  chose
restoring pulpits&reredos

*https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/834185...

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Amedo Modigliani interpreter of neck&face
painted&sculpted with good grace
On his death wife Jeanne lost all hope
jumped from a window,for she could not cope...

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Lovis Corinth selfportrayed each birthday
why he did this no one could say
Until he made Charlotte Berend his wife
his art* brightened as she influenced his life

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/lovis-corinth/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry...

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