Poetry night! I love having friends that are willing to go along with this. This style of poem was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bently. “A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem.”
Read about the rules of a clerihew on NationalDayCalendar.com.
Here are our poems:
Michelle Obama!
That woman tried to sell me a llama.
But I got mad,
and I guess it made her really sad.-Melanie
Carly Lloyd
Her determination could fill even the greatest void
the ball was quietly coasting along
until a hat trick began in shorter time than a Taylor Swift song-Lizzie
The poems are supposed to be funny, but I find being funny on purpose extremely difficult. It was fun to think about these though. I only wrote the 1, but Melanie wrote 3 in the same amount of time. Anyone else want to join in the fun? Submit your poems in the comments section!
What’s Tomorrow?
July 11th
- National Cheer Up The Lonely Day
- National Rainier Cherry Day
- National Blueberry Muffin Day
- All American Pet Photo Day
- National Mojito Day
- National 7-Eleven Day
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darn, not four lines. but one of my favorites, nevertheless::
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings