Clerihew Corner
POETRY: Messing about with AA BB, with occasional additions
Six foot five actor Jacob Elordi
Has risen so quickly that as a reward, he
Is rumoured to be lined up as the next James Bond
Peeping out of the sunroof, winking at a blonde
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
So enthusiastically slew
That he’s going to find Yahweh quite hard to kid
After all the Thou Shalt Nots that he Definitely Did
Forty-seventh President Donald John Trump
Talks like a gurgling sump
The contents of which are lapped up by a crowd who will all
Clutch MAGA hats to their chests at his funeral
I like the tumble-over-itself imbalance of the clerihew, with tortured rhymes that build to a silly finale. Give it a go. 🙂
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Fun challenge. I think the metre is meant to be more irregular but I can’t help myself:
Auteur, enigma: Woody Allen
To whose sins we now add pallin’
Round with those whose crimes appall
Still, I do love Annie Hall!