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Life Clerihew Poems

These Life Clerihew poems are examples of Clerihew poems about Life. These are the best examples of Clerihew Life poems written by international poets.


Premium Member 700 Years - Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy written by the famous, Dante Alighieri
A writer, a poet, and a philosopher with his own theory
Still hard to understand after 700 years
Listening to...

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Categories: love, poems, poets,



Premium Member CLERIHEW MACKINTOSH-ES
Charles&Margaret  husband&wife
led an active artistic life
Together made many a design
of floral motifs so fine

...

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Categories: clerihew, art, word play,

Premium Member Jimmy Carter's Life
One hundred-year-old Jimmy Carter
Loved nature and in Georgia Conservancy a charter (member)
He vetoed the damn for the Flint
Some people's dreams left at a sprint...

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Categories: age, community, conflict,

Premium Member CLERIHEW - PEIRAIKOS
Ancient Greek artist Peiraikos
for topics was not at a loss
He painted the common &ordinary
so was nicknamed the 'rhyparography'*

* still life...

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Categories: art, word play,

Stage
ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER

Stage

Life is true
Life is brave
Death is but a stage
So break...

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Categories: beauty, blessing, butterfly, care,



Premium Member CLERHEW braques outlines
Le Havres Georges Braque
as a Fauv/Cubist was no slack
He also loved  to outline white
his still life* such a delight...

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Categories: art, word play,

Premium Member Bob Newhart-RIP
Bob Newhart…

hope you find a good part
for your expression of deadpan
in heaven since you kicked the can

Bob Newhart…

perhaps I meant the bucket, ye old fart
made...

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Categories: tribute,

Premium Member William Charles Lunalilo
William Charles Lunalilo
First King, chose by the people
Grandnephew of the Great King, as the people vote, was unanimous
Next year, King Kamehameha the Sixth died of...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: appreciation,

SANTOS DUMONT

       
Santos Dumont so much invested
In his life, he many things invented 
  he  even flew heavier...

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Categories: allusion, appreciation, tribute,

Premium Member Michael Landon
Actor and filmmaker, Michael Landon -
his shows were addictions folks couldn’t abandon!
As a javelin thrower, he could have gone far.
Once injured, he changed paths and...

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Categories: celebrity,

Premium Member Charles Lamb
Renowned poet Charles Lamb,
Was gentle like a lamb.
He took care of Mary, his sis,
Who drove him crazy when her sanity was amiss.

In a mad fit...

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Categories: celebrity, conflict, mental illness,

Premium Member Adam Lambert
 
"Life is about taking risks to get what you want."

              ...

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Categories: tribute,

Premium Member The Future in the Making
Simultaneous writing and drawing, ooh da Vinci
Master of everything, claiming "itsa cinchi"
Painter of the last supper and the Mona Lisa 
Born 279 years after they...

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Categories: appreciation,

Premium Member A Hero for the World
Nelson Mandela
by most accounts was quite a fella.
But sometimes he was dissed and dismissed,
said to be a card-carrying Communist.

Nelson Mandela fought segregation
in South Africa, his...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: africa, appreciation, hero,

Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLI munch once more
Romantically symbolic for sure
Munch's metaphor takes the floor
here in the Dance of Life*
so many are especially rife...

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Categories: clerihew, art,


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