Our Dottie -- that's Dande to you --
can write about carrots or palm trees or shampoo --
or babies and mothers or compost and mud -- all like a hand in a glove
with down-to-earth wisdom laced with passion and love.

Oops!  Sorry!  Didn't quite read the rules right.  I might try again another day.
~Davidf

^{Huge Hugh Hughes}

Huge Hugh Hughes as a suitor quite failed
but it wasn’t his size that his once-intended assailed;
see, his sweet Clara Belle knew she had to refuse! 
Could she lower herself to become just another one o’ them Clara Hughes ?

_{© MLee Dickens'son 08 Nov 2003
rev. 04 Jan 2007}

DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT

John, Senator Kerry
has many opinions, which vary :
contentious, a bother,
'cause they don't hardly ever agree with each other .....

Alan McAlpine Douglas

PS. Lest I offend any US electors, I tried to write a Bush one, but refused to use the only too obvious rhyme (push). Perhaps another can make up for my republican deficit ? LOL.

The Clerihew was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. He was a teenager at the time and the poems were meant to be funny and short.

 


Here is mine:

Clerihews: My Very Last Clerihew

My skill with Latin is very sticky,
I think it goes Vidi, Veni, Vicki?
Well, in any language, when all's said and done,
She, came, she saw and then she won

My heart in an instant, she wasn't too picky,
For years I had waited to re-love my Vicki;
Unlike Latin, I wasn't yet dead,
With every poem, she loved what I said...

Until THIS one, "It's too much like a quickie",
She scolded and warned me, my love, my Vicki;
"Get back to those love poems, or my love lose,
I belong in sonnets not these Clerihews"!

© Norman S. Pollack