Romance Poetry posted February 11, 2017


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One of those secret affairs everyone knows about.

We Must Keep This Under The Covers

by Ogden

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump,
Scheming men think the other's a chump.
In a battle for who will prevail,
The world's praying that both of them fail.



Clerihew writing prompt entry
Writing Prompt
Write a 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.

One of the most remembered Clerihew from Bentley's collection is:

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

Example #1
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.

Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers

Example #2
The Road Runner
always almost a goner;
when attacked in manner dread,
Wile E. suffers intended fate instead ....

Copyright © 2004 Alan McAlpine Douglas

Example #3
Star Trek's frowning Klingon Worf
challenges a squeamish metamorph
to eating a wormlike gagh dinner;
Worf of course was the winner!

Copyright © 2004 Diana Dalton

Example #4
Corporal Klinger,
M.A.S.H.'s best ringer
in dress, heels and sneer,
won "Kook of the Year."

Copyright © 2004 James Dean Chase
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