Poetic Friends,
Here is a new challenge :
WRITE A CLERIHEW !
A clerihew is 4 lines, rhyme aabb, the first line ends with a well-known person's name, the 2nd thymes with it, the 3rd and 4th lines are a comment, usually humerous, on that person.
No requirements for meter or syllanble count, in fact much of the humour can be achieved by deliberately chopping the normal rules of poetry, which is why I find them very therapeutic.
Example, made up on the spot :
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PLUMB CRAZY
Senator Kerry
is sincere, oh so very,
about global warming coming;
thus the need to adjust world's plumbing ....
Alan McAlpine Douglas
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I find
http://www.rhymezone.com/ most useful for this exercise.
Please do not be afraid to try - I will help you if you falter, but cannot if you do not post your attempts.
Really, think of a famous name, find a cheesy rhyme to it, then get humerously acid x 2 !
Love
Alan
