Two Days Late - and a Reid Clerihew

 

So after making a point of saying I would be posting, and resurrecting the notion that I am "Thursday," I failed to post on Thursday. 

Fortunately, "E" filled that gap. It was good to see someone else posting here.

I plead busyness and forgetfulness.

I've been writing and editing the newsletter for a local pro-life pregnancy center, which I have to get to the President of the center by next week for approval, and then off to the printer the following week.

But still, I should have posted something. That's where the forgetfulness comes in.

Anyway, here's a topical clerihew I did scribble this week:

Joy Reid

was fined for driving at excessive speed.

She was dismayed when the Black traffic court judge didn't agree

that speed limits are a tool of white supremacy.

An historical clerihew

Titus Oates

liked wearing heavy overcoats.

When it simply got too hot

he alleged a papist plot.

Obama Clerihew

For his birthday Barack Obama

received a llama.

Alas, this camel-like pet

made him long for a cigarette.

Pope Clerihew

When Alexander Pope
slipped on a bar of soap
the couplet he muttered was neither stoic
nor heroic.

Bentley: Clerihew

E. C. Bentley
evidently
knew just what to do
with a clerihew.

Clerihew (Obama)

Barack Obama
thrives in electoral drama.
Unfortunately, governing
doesn't seem to be his thing.

Chesterton Conference Clerihew (Pearce)

About Joseph Pearce

the speculation was fierce:

Given the number of books he boasts

did he really write them ... or was it ghosts?

Chesterton Conference Clerihew (Dale)

We can assume that Dale Ahlquist
on his honeymoon was kissed.
But we know without doubt before it was done
he'd discovered G. K. Chesterton.

Obama Clerihew (political!)

President Barack Obama
should not be confused with Osama,
but his anti-life ways
lead to more deaths these days.

Two Clerihews (that's a Lot)

Lot's wife
ended her life
when she came to a halt
and proved her salt.


The daughters of Lot
were hot-to-trot.
After a few cups of wine
their father did fine.

A clerihew: Looking in the last volume

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
helped to make possible television.
His contribution to that form of mass media
is why he's one of the the last entries in our encyclopedia

Calling for Clerihews @ The Guardian Book Blog

Billy Mills, blogging about books at the Guardian, has a post today about writing Clerihews (link).


Also present in his post is the above picture which I do not remember seeing before.

Margaret Sanger clerihew

Margret Sanger
Eugenicist haranguer
Thought with certain groups it would be good
To strongly “encourage” Planned Barrenhood.

Roosevelt clerihew

In 1912, Roosevelt, Teddy,
when asked if he was ready
to run again, said he was fit as a moose,
prompting Taft to sputter, "What the deuce!"

A Presidential Clerihew

President James Polk
would rarely crack a joke.
But friends say he was quick
with a limerick.

A clerihew

Any foe of Andrew Jackson
who dared to make attacks on
Rachel, his wife,
was risking his life.

Belloc clerihew

Hilaire Belloc

walked off the end of a dock

but being in the midst of a debate

he failed to recognize his fate.

Einstein clerihew

Albert Einstein
had to pay a traffic fine
for trying to reach the speed of light
in a Packard one night.

Clerihew - Michael Vick

Michael Vick
is sick.
Like many of his passes, his notions of sport
fall short.

Another clerihew

I don't think Ayn Rand
should be banned.
I just think we should label her works:
"The ideal gifts for selfish jerks."