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By Brett
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31 March 2008 |
Suffering from an acute attack of creative impotence, I'm afraid clerihews are all I can come up with today. Sherlock Holmes
Regularly bemoans
My lack of powers of deduction;
He's jealous of my art of seduction.
James Moriarty
When invited to party
Replied "I simply don't have the time,
It's no picnic being the Napoleon of crime."
Sir Henry Baskerville
When given a task to fill
Had just one prerequisite
That there be no bloody dogs in it.
I did warn you. |
Written by punchy (372 comments posted) 31st March 2008 | Artful rhymes indeed : baskerville-task to fill 
Paula x |
Written by stevetroster (1398 comments posted) 31st March 2008 | Blinder!
"Had just one prerequisite
That there be no bloody dogs in it."
People with glass poodles shouldn’t throw bones!
All the best,
Steve.
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Written by Josie (2496 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | | Oh Brett, I go along with what you say. You have done much better, but this is how it sometimes happens. Tell yourself that none of us are good all the time, or bad all the time. We just try. | Scribbling...
Written by Brett (479 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | | Oh Josie
Written by Brett (479 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | Scribbling rubbish like this is just fun (not necessarily for the reader), I'm aware that I have done better: I'm aware that everyone has done better. But just because you have only found out what a poem should be, can't a few of us just relax from time to time and revel in bad rhyme?
There is nothing wrong with a serious writer, but a writer who takes themselves seriously...
As for Paula and Steve, I'm glad you two appreciated the awfulness of it all.
Cheers | Even Chesterton and Bentley
Written by patterjack (1060 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | would admit that Clerihews are meant to be odd ! the very origin was a scribble in a science lesson !
patterjack | Cheers patterjack
Written by Brett (479 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | I admit that my examples are lame, but being a lover of structured verse, once in a while you have to follow something daft don't you? Some people choose religion or the masons, I like a form where the first line is a name only and the following lines have no meterical boundaries.
I am unaware about the story of the science lesson, any chance you could illuminate us?
Cheers
Brett | Ancient history
Written by patterjack (1060 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | Many years ago , in a galaxy light years away , I read -- possibly in some such arcane literary publication as John o'London's Weekly long since defunct ( you get my drift , I have no idea where I picked it up ) that Edmund wrote the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy , ( who abominated gravy and lived in the odium of having discovered sodium ) during a science lesson . The accusation was made by his friend Chesterton
Awful but fun , and it caught on -- Edwardian jocularity .
patterjack |
Written by Brett (479 comments posted) 1st April 2008 | I have heard that verse, of course. Obviously science lessons were just as bloody tedious back then as when I was in school.
Thanks patterjack. |
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