Who’s Who of Clerihew
Cassowary Crossing
Was idly tossing
Around the idea of clerihew contest,
And these are the best:
BRONZE LEAR: MR X
Silvio Berlusconi
Tycoon, playboy & show pony
Art or politics ? It seems that you
can engage in both with a well aimed statue
[Must have tempting to use phony as the rhyme, exscpecially in light of the bogus bloodshed murmurs.]
SILVER BELLOC: JD
Mrs. Simone Warne,
a cricket widow forlorn.
Has returned to how she began,
as Miss Simone Callaghan
Miss Simone Callaghan,
Can’t live without her man.
She’s forgiven and forgotten his sins,
the new Mrs. Simone Warne begins.
[JD’s Prince Harry was another humdinger, but loved the idea of a double clerihew to chart a decade of goings-on, name change included.]
GOLD NASH: MAUVE
Sarah Palin
What was she inhalin?
She saw a way to make her country grander
…and Russkies from her front verandah.
[Mauve is made for irreverent rhyme, with Anglo-Saxon Jackson another heady couplet. Kudos to the Coloured One.]
Congratz in fact to all clerihewers and Merry Christmas to this blog’s poets, posters, solvers, browsers and Russian spammers, and a peaceful & propitious 2010.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:59 am
wow, thanks DA, for my very first Golden Nash, although Ogden bizarrely has 50 that colour
and for what it’s worth (true valued: nothing) my fave snippets from the other contributors were…
the “Did Charles and Di do it? cos he looks like James Hewitt” gag
the cool throwaway “eed, ade or id, oh yeah, and all that stuff he did”
Mr X’s droll fellow/Costello couplet-gag
and DA’s velvet-soft “Whereabouts: vague”