Clerihews?

[SnowDancer]

Saw this in Readers Digest, so I thought I'd throw it out to the SkiDivas to see what comes back.

Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a Clerihew is a four-line poem. It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; it pokes fun at mostly famous people. Clerihews are not satirical or abusive, but target famous individuals and reposition them in absurd or commonplace settings.

These four line mini-verses have a few guidelines:
- The famous person is named in the first line
- They rhyme AABB
- For comic effect, the four lines are usually unequal in length, and the 3rd & 4th lines are usually longer than the first two.

Here's an example I found:
Attila
Didn't give a scintilla
For kindness or fun
But his wife still called him "Hun"


Have at it, Divas - and have fun!

 

[num]

Tom Cruise
His wife and daughter have matching hair dos
He seems crazy in tabloids and on tv
But he'll always be Jerry Maguire to me

 

[SkiNurse]

Tom Cruise
His wife and daughter have matching hair dos
He seems crazy in tabloids and on tv
But he'll always be Jerry Maguire to me

:ROTF:

 

[Kiragirl]

Bode Miller
He’s a killer downhiller
Learned how to ski on New England ice
He’s hot lookin’ and boy is his butt nice!

 

[ski diva]

I just about spit my tea all over my computer at that one!

 

[Kiragirl]

Harrison Ford
He’s still got it, my lord
Portrayed the Prez, Han Solo, the fugitive and was in American Graffiti
But I’ll always remember him as “Indeeeeeee!”


{these are fun}