POETRY FRIDAY: Three Original Clerihews

Here are three clerihews that I wrote for a Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect more than two years ago. Note: A clerihew is a four-line poem that pokes fun at a famous person. It has a rhyme scheme of AABB. The first line should end with the name of the celebrity.

Eve,

So naive

In her birthday suit,

Tempted Adam with forbidden fruit.

Sir Isaac Newton—

There’s no refutin’—

With a force of nature had to grapple

When he was conked on the head with a falling apple.

Socrates’

Analyses

Were deducted, so they say,

Through a series of Q and A.

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BTW, is anyone else having major problems with Blogger? When I try to post anything at Blogger using Internet Explorer, all my text gets scrunched up. No line breaks or paragraphs show. I had to download the Firefox browser early last week so I could post at Blue Rose Girls and Wild Rose Reader. Still, I'm experiencing issues with sizing, color, and spacing of text. It's become quite frustrating.

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At Wild Rose Reader, I have a short review of Marilyn Singer’s book Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom—as well as some of my own original “cuddly creature couplets.”

I’ll be giving away a copy of Twosomes as a prize for the second week of National Poetry Month. Click here to find out how you can win a children’s poetry book from Wild Rose Reader.

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Madigan Reads.