I just got the latest issue of Gilbert. Much to my delight, the Clerihew Corner features poems just by me.
Here's the poems that got in:
Dr. Mary Gatter
treated it as a laughing matter,
but sell enough baby parts, even that teenie,
and you just might afford a Lamborghini.
treated it as a laughing matter,
but sell enough baby parts, even that teenie,
and you just might afford a Lamborghini.
A somber Marquis de Sade
said with a knowing nod,
"The wickedness of all my work fades
before that woman's 50 Shades.”
said with a knowing nod,
"The wickedness of all my work fades
before that woman's 50 Shades.”
One of the aims of ISIS
is eradicating Western sins and vices,
except, of course, for a select few
that they themselves like to do.
is eradicating Western sins and vices,
except, of course, for a select few
that they themselves like to do.
When he was young St. Polycarp
religiously practiced the harp.
When a musical career proved a non-starter
he instead became a martyr.
religiously practiced the harp.
When a musical career proved a non-starter
he instead became a martyr.
When Alexander Pope
slipped on a bar of soap
the couplet he muttered was neither stoic
nor heroic.
slipped on a bar of soap
the couplet he muttered was neither stoic
nor heroic.
Steven Wright
Is right:
Boycott shampoo,
demand the real poo.
That makes 8 clerihews in the last three issues - after a five and half year gap!
Is right:
Boycott shampoo,
demand the real poo.
That makes 8 clerihews in the last three issues - after a five and half year gap!
Pax et bonum
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