Clerihew Crazy

[Tzara]

Alan Turing
sometimes during
even class, would ask
how one would ever know if a machine talked back.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Tzara knows
why this name he chose
and it’s very true
no one can do a clerihew.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Ted Hughes
sat in a castle pew
pondering on beekeeping, hives,
women, and how to keep them alive.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Nicholson, Jack
was prone to attack:
Nurse Ratchet,
later, a door with a hatchet.

 

[Minervous]

clutching_calliope
has much more than a moiety
of writing talent. She crushed
the NaNo word count, without being rushed.

 

[bogusbrig]

Tzara knows
why this name he chose
and it’s very true
no one can do a clerihew.

Tristan Tzara
the father of dada
went a little gaga
as poets do

 

[clutching_calliope]

Raging Bull's
jaw was glass wool
and verbally abrasive. Deniro
is my kind of anti-hero.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Jenny Diski
writies of risks we
all must take with flare
but you had to be there.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Priapus
is a guy with some thrust,
or dick for brains
depending on the exchange.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Andy Warhol
was a poor soul
shot and framed too
in red green yellow and blue.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Hannibel Lecter,
Harris' great lecturer
on all humans, cretin
thread-flaming morons, not ignored, but eaten.

 

[tungtied2u]

*******
moved to Haiku River

 

[bluerains]

this

is the wrong thread
moved to the river..

 

[tungtied2u]

******

 

[tungtied2u]

Annie Leibowitz
shoots people and hits
the mark most times much closer
than might be admitted by even the poser

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

tungtied2u
wrote a haiku
you won't find it here
it's now over there.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Anthony Blair
had an affair
jumped in the sack
and ended in Iraq.

 

[tungtied2u]

tungtied2u
wrote a haiku
you won't find it here
it's now over there.

Tristesse2
decided to write a few
poems for the thirty thread
then decided not to instead

(our loss I'm afraid..)

 

[clutching_calliope]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
says
bear with me for 100 years.
Which a lot longer than it appears.

 

[Unbridled_Passion]

Sadaam Houssain
was a bit of a pain
now he's danglin'
by the neck he's hangin'

 

[Tzara]

Veuve Clicquot!
Not so sweet as those
other fancy-schmantzy wines.
Your effervescent taste, though, is divine!


Yes, yes, I know. Not really a clerihew. Not a person. Happy New Year, anyways, poets!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Elmer's glue
a throw-back to
kindergarten days
of glue sniffing ways


Tzara did it first

 

[Tzara]

Elmer's glue
a throw-back to
kindergarten days
of glue sniffing ways


Tzara did it first

Library paste
had better taste
and it worked much better, too.
Got kids more high than Elmer's glue.

At least, that's what I remember.

 

[Tzara]

The sweet Tristesse
seemed a tiny bit obsessed
about the rules of the clerihew, or maybe didn't.
The rules are not obscure, nor are the rules pure. They're simple: wing it, end it.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

The sweet Tristesse
seemed a tiny bit obsessed
about the rules of the clerihew, or maybe didn't.
The rules are not obscure, nor are the rules pure. They're simple: wing it, end it.

How bizarre, a
poet Tzara
started this debate.
T'wasn't me mate.