"clerihew" poems
Oh what joy.
A little boy.
Jacob so happy.
A cheerful chappie.
Paul Butters
Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM UTC
K-popper Psy
Buzzing like a pesky fly
To out do his "Gangnam Style" hit
But you can't polish cat ****
*Clerihew
A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.*
Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
Skipper Kevin Sinfield
Rugby League man who’d never yield.
Inspiration to his team,
Leeds Rhinos: Living the Dream.
Paul Butters
Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM UTC
Here’s a new form of Clerihew,
For Andy Murray who
Won twice at Wimbledon:
The fun has only just begun.
Paul Butters
Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 5:45 AM UTC
Ping Pong World Champ Andrew Baggaley,
Wow that lad can really play.
Dethroned the “King” who came from Russia,
Then 1966d that kid from somewhere near Prussia.
Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 10:49 AM UTC
cousin Jim
was an inept crim
he deployed a Sherman tank
to raid the Federal bank
Jun 23, 2013
Jun 23, 2013 at 9:01 PM UTC
Sergio Aguero:
He’s my hero.
Title-winner against QPR,
The man sure is a Super Star.
Paul Butters
Dec 24, 2014
Dec 24, 2014 at 3:29 PM UTC
It was the day of the wedding of Mr and Mrs Epithalamium they looked quite the Heroic Couplet and full of Romanticism until the Englyn Prose-d the Questionku ‘ Do you take this woman’ … then in a wavering Iambic Pentameter voice the groom whispered ‘I do not know’ ….Mrs Epithalamium felt quite Dizain and tried to scratch out his Ruba’I, the Clerihew stepped forward to comfort her but tripped over some Concrete and felt like a right Cowboy. The brides father, the Russian Chastushka, grabbed the groom and with a Carpe Diem attitude threatened to Choka him.
The guests all gathered in an Enclosed Rhyme with the best man making quite a Dramatic Monologue, the brides mother had her Hybronnet knocked off her head and the chief bridesmaid had her Kimo torn in the affray. The young flower girls Haibun and Hamd both burst into tears as their Crown of Sonnets were totally destroyed.
The Rev. Pantoum pleaded for calm, then repeating his plea for the melee to stop started making a List of the damage, quick as a Ghazal and with great Imagism he protected the Crystalline glass from smashing into Ninette pieces. Meanwhile the poor bride was in a state of Nonet anxiously trying to get past the twins Munaajaat and Musaddas, her Idyll life had been turned upside down, today was the day she had hoped to change her Name to Triolet.
Alliteration watched while women wept, then stepped forward and with a Lyric in his voice asked people to calm down, he told everyone he had Naat come here to watch a display such as this and suggested they went for a hot Canzone to discuss the next move, Tanka and Tyburn readily agreed as they were very hungry and particularly as it was Free Verse it meant they could eat as much as they wanted. The nearly bride couldn’t give a Sijo if she never saw her ex again she was sick of being Kyrielle to and did not want anyone else’s Epyllion and with a final Than-Bauk stormed out of the club…
© 6/4/2013
Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
Norman Stevens
Always gets evens:
Reads my stuff on his smart telly.
Go on Norman, give it some welly.
There you have it, a Clerihew,
Oh what an how to do,
Very silly, very true.
Why I love them, I haven’t a clue.
Time now for another brew.
As I’ve said before:
Write a Clerihew:
It’s easy to do.
Two rhyming couplets of any length:
Short and simple, that’s its strength.
Paul Butters
Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 5:08 AM UTC
Association Footballer Ronaldo,
The new Wizard Waldo.
Oh what a fandango,
You bet he can tango.
Paul Butters
© PB 18\11\2017.
Nov 18, 2017
Nov 18, 2017 at 5:14 PM UTC
Nicola Sturgeon
Needs no urging.
Scottish trouble,
Let’s burst her bubble.
She wants to split the UK
And make it rubble.
Theresa May thinks she’s the dregs.
The papers? They only ask,
(Nicola and Theresa) -
Who’s got the better legs?
Paul Butters
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017 at 2:17 PM UTC
Write a Clerihew:
It’s easy to do.
Two rhyming couplets of any length:
Short and simple, that’s its strength.
Remember Johnny Giles
A player with all the wiles.
In midfield he did scheme:
For Leeds he was a dream.
Nicole Scherzinger,
What a messenger.
A Friend so loyal,
Regally royal.
Oh Nick Clegg,
Why did you have to beg
For a Tory-led Coalition,
Sending the Lib-Dems into Perdition?
(PS) All hail be to great Don Newton,
Always had a winning solution.
Played table tennis with flashing blade,
A Legend that will never fade.
Paul Butters
Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 6:29 AM UTC
I’m Cameron, call me Dave,
Power I do crave.
I’ll tell any story
To con you into voting Tory.
Feb 6, 2015
Feb 6, 2015 at 5:16 AM UTC
that crazy man Rodrigo Duterte
best watch out or he'll end up muerte
if he keeps on being a windbag
he might find himself sporting a toe tag
Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018 at 8:56 PM UTC
The Marquis de Sade was dead keen on ******
And thought those who weren't deserved a lobotomy;
He ******* all his friends both from the back and the front
So on his gravestone they wrote, "Here lies a right ***** ************* ****
Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 1:50 PM UTC
Remember David Beckham
The footballing great from Peckham.
He would always bend it
So no-one could defend it.
Paul Butters
Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 5:48 AM UTC
The Marquis de Sade was dead keen on ******
And thought anyone who wasn't needed a lobotomy;
He ******* all his friends both from the back and the front
So on his gravestone they wrote, "Here lies a right ****
Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 12:03 PM UTC
Dmitri Shostakovich woke up feeling sad
In his home town of Leningrad;
The naughty Nazis were shelling his lovely Russian city -
So, for consolation, he ****** hard on his wife's left *****
Jun 12, 2015
Jun 12, 2015 at 12:01 PM UTC
Twain with his wit, to some, was an ear pain
Mark, a pen name, his words to heed, no disdain
Samuel Clemens, the humorist man was a gifted teller of story
Penned, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, innocent boyhood glory.
Apr 25, 2015
Apr 25, 2015 at 11:48 PM UTC
My math teacher was Mr. *****
whose math classes were so silly.
He would spin us in a chair,
and throw our flashcards in the air!
Nov 26, 2010
Nov 26, 2010 at 2:40 PM UTC
the Dali Lama
is a man of happy karma
he laughs quite a lot
much like Mary Jane's ***
Dec 20, 2014
Dec 20, 2014 at 8:47 AM UTC
Good old Norman,
Thank goodness he’s normal.
Unlike many a friend,
He hasn’t gone round the bend.
Stevens is his surname:
He never plays the Blame Game.
Such a decent chap
And never utters *******
Whoops, I had to miss that rhyme,
To avoid committing a bit of a crime.
Norm is quite the hero,
And something of a Shakespearo.
He’s maybe my biggest fan,
From England to Japan.
Reading poems from me,
Right there on his Smart TV.
So Norman enjoy your beer,
As I will always be here.
Paul Butters
© PB 1\12\2018.
Dec 1, 2018
Dec 1, 2018 at 6:22 AM UTC
Donald Trump
Is no chump.
Makes America rich,
Without any hitch.
Says what he thinks,
And never even blinks.
Kowtows to no-one:
Just gets the job done.
Paul Butters
© PB 15\10\2018.
Oct 15, 2018
Oct 15, 2018 at 10:20 AM UTC
A racist highway patrol trooper by name of Brian
loves to see how all these black folks are dyin'
Is much maligned for his own terrible ruse
that recently put a black woman in her noose
Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 9:42 AM UTC