Gerald, you get my gold star this week. Your clerihews went from delightful to MORE delightful. My favorite is the first Lancelot one. So clever!GShuler wrote:I am offering proof that this type of poetry is way above my head and skill level:
(I am using this first one because I am famous in my own family.)
Gerald D. Shuler
Uses a ruler
For writing in meter...
But clarihews are definately sweeter.
Job
Doesn't rhyme with rob, but robe.
Does it matter, anyway?
He's not alive today.
another:
Sir Lancelot
got caught
with Gweneviere.
Oh, Dear.
Or how about this for an improvement?
Sir Lancelot
surely thought he'd not get caught
but this news was a blast
that traveled fast.
Jan"s Poetry Class--CLERIHEW
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Of her cat you should not make fun.
If you do and write a clerihew and have a typo, too,
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Of her cat you should not make fun.
If you do and write a clerihew and have a typo, too,
For payback, she’ll point it out to you.
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"When the Round Table is broken every man must follow Galahad or Mordred; middle
things are gone." C.S. Lewis
“The chief purpose of life … is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis ... We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendor.” J.R.R. Tolkien
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I still hate it, but I have to try again.
Billy Buck
Is the Red Sox schmuck
He’ll never make the Hall of Fame
Because his error lost the game
Phee
Billy Buck
Is the Red Sox schmuck
He’ll never make the Hall of Fame
Because his error lost the game
Phee
Phee
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"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT
Phee--perfect!
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Really clever, Cherie!
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Good one, Shelley!
I was going to write one about him, but there's not much to rhyme with "Heene" except a naughty-ish word. You got around that very well!
I was going to write one about him, but there's not much to rhyme with "Heene" except a naughty-ish word. You got around that very well!
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Besides, I wouldn't have known who "Heene" was. I instantly recognized "Balloon Boy's dad" tho.glorybee wrote:Good one, Shelley!
I was going to write one about him, but there's not much to rhyme with "Heene" except a naughty-ish word. You got around that very well!
I having SUCH FUN reading everyone's clerihews!
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Me too. I didn't know what they were called, but I've always loved this genre, even though I hate writing them. My favorite is the Lancelot one.CatLin wrote:
I having SUCH FUN reading everyone's clerihews!
Phee
Phee
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I agree--it's so much fun to read these! Here are a couple of late additions.
One for the author of Gulliver's Travels:
Jonathan Swift
Set his hapless hero adrift
To satirize bureaucrats all
With creatures great and small.
And one for my favorite poet. Please note the exquisitely elegant (ahem!) forced rhyme in the second line:
Robert Browning
Of his achievements, The Ring and the Book's the crowning.
It would be more to his credit
If anyone had read it.
Carol S.
One for the author of Gulliver's Travels:
Jonathan Swift
Set his hapless hero adrift
To satirize bureaucrats all
With creatures great and small.
And one for my favorite poet. Please note the exquisitely elegant (ahem!) forced rhyme in the second line:
Robert Browning
Of his achievements, The Ring and the Book's the crowning.
It would be more to his credit
If anyone had read it.
Carol S.
Carol S.
Carol, those were indeed both exquisite and elegant, no throat clearing necessary!
I can't wait to see what you'll do on limerick week.
I can't wait to see what you'll do on limerick week.
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I may be drummed out of FW for this... or at the least asked to sit in the corner of your Master Classroom.
Lizzie Andrew Bordon
Evaded tax evasion.
Originally she planned to buffet her parents with the ax.
But due to financial difficulties, she switched to whacks when she heard the government was threatening citizens with a restaurant and buffet tax.
I tried to make the last line stay on one line, but it didn't cooperate.
Lizzie Andrew Bordon
Evaded tax evasion.
Originally she planned to buffet her parents with the ax.
But due to financial difficulties, she switched to whacks when she heard the government was threatening citizens with a restaurant and buffet tax.
I tried to make the last line stay on one line, but it didn't cooperate.
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..in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son... Hebrews 1:2
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glorybee wrote:Carol, those were indeed both exquisite and elegant, no throat clearing necessary!
I can't wait to see what you'll do on limerick week.
Limericks next week? Yay!
(I used limericks to teach poetry to my 4th-5th graders.)
I found myself falling into a limerick rhythm when I was writing these. I had to force myself to add a few more syllables so it would be even.
Yvonne