Clerihew Day.. Wednesday Medley

Hello Friends.
I am joining with Terri for Wednesday Medley!

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NATIONAL CLERIHEW DAY – July 10

NATIONAL CLERIHEW DAY

July 10th of each year celebrates National Clerihew Day in the United States.  Edmund Clerihew Bentley created the whimsical, four-line biographical poem.

An English novelist and humorist, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a 16-year-old student when he thought up the lines for his first ever clerihew.

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium

As with most poetry, the Clerihew is defined by a set of rules. It must contain four lines, rhyming couplets of AA/BB, a person’s name in the first line, say something about that person and it should be humorous. It is meant to be a funny poem, of course.

The genre of poetry wasn’t limited to Bentley. Other poets wrote and published in form as well, and still do.

• A Cluster of Clerihews by Gavin Ewart
• Excuse My Clerihews by William Hazell
• The Lost Clerihews of Paul Ingram by Paul Ingram (Though they don’t really seem lost, I guess they once were.)

Like limericks, poets poke fun at people real and imagined. As with any humor, it’s meant to draw a chuckle from the reader as well as the subject of the poem. If you can’t laugh at yourself and you’re the subject of a clerihew, it’s probably better not to read it. If you’re writing a clerihew about someone who can’t take a joke, maybe don’t write the clerihew. Or, write it about not being able to take a joke.

Nelly Belly ha ha
Danced to Lady GaGa.
Fell on her bum.
Cried in her rum.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL CLERIHEW DAY

On National Clerihew Day, try writing a clerihew or two of your own! Post on social media using #NationalClerihewDay.

HISTORY OF NATIONAL CLERIHEW DAY

The day is observed annually on the anniversary of Edmund Clerihew Bentley’s birth, July 10th.

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Everything above this line is from the National Day Calendar.

Terri freely admits that she had no idea what Clerihew Day was about until she read about it above.  Sounds like a fun exercise!!  It may take a while so one poem is the only real task today!!  If you aren't up for creating, then visit HERE and pick your favorite to share!   Let's go!

1.  Try your hand at one of these Clerihew poems, or two or three!  

Here they are:

Annie  Fannie,
a bit uncanny,
Went to town
 wearing only a frown.
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Timothy
 you will agree
was given to the liquor
 said  It'd kill him quicker.
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Mary never did quite know
how her garden 'er would grow
Til old MacDonald sold his farm
and did Marys finance a lot of harm.
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Sol was small
so said they all
 And looked upon him with disdain
as he ran between the drops of rain
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Harvey told the girls the truth:
He was in love with snobby Ruth.
The girls all wondered uselessly
If this was all a certainty!
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2.  Tell us something about your week so far.

Re-watching Teen Wolf with the Little and the Famous Anonymous and enjoying myself in the process.
My garden is looking so nice this year from all the lovely rain. So green! Its an Emerald Isle on it's own now.
What are you doing this week?