Day Fourteen's challenge is to write a clerihew, a four line biographical poem satirizing a famous person. Similar to a limerick, which has five lines and does not (necessarily!) refer to real person.
Here's mine:
And now folks, here's Stephen Colbert.
For skewering news he has a flair.
*He's a profound proclivity
for satirizing civility.
--Shirley Smith Franklin
* I realize there's the possibility of interpreting this as He IS instead of He HAS, as I intended.
but it's all just in fun---so go figure!
**Okay, you're right, an outright HE HAS would work better. See? That's how (I would guess most) poems get written (and re-written, and re-written...), a little at a time, one step forward, two steps back, until it finally tells the author it's done. And yes, I call it fun.
Here's mine:
And now folks, here's Stephen Colbert.
For skewering news he has a flair.
*He's a profound proclivity
for satirizing civility.
--Shirley Smith Franklin
* I realize there's the possibility of interpreting this as He IS instead of He HAS, as I intended.
but it's all just in fun---so go figure!
**Okay, you're right, an outright HE HAS would work better. See? That's how (I would guess most) poems get written (and re-written, and re-written...), a little at a time, one step forward, two steps back, until it finally tells the author it's done. And yes, I call it fun.
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