CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Pokes Clerihewian Fun at Celebrities!
This is a special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge.
Poems should be posted there after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 9 PM EDT.
Friday Fling #251 for September 27th 2013
A big recent event was the Emmy awards on TV.
A lot was made of the outfits worn by the various celebrities in attendance.
Which struck us as rather amusing, not to suggest idol worshipping.
So this week on the Fling, we’re suggesting you write something amusing
about a celebrity in any walk of life where they might get national publicity.
Specifically, there is a format for poking fun at famous people. It’s called the Clerihew.
We’ve done this format a number of times in the past on the Fling,
but in case you don’t recall or weren’t here for any of those,
according to ShadowPoetry.com, a Clerihew
is a comic verse consisting of two couplets
and a specific rhyming scheme, aabb
invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16.
The poem is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme.
In most cases, the first line names a person,
and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
One of the most remembered Clerihews from Bentley’s collection is:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Here’s a new one I wrote for this challenge:
Poor Anna Faris
just couldn’t spare us.
All those Scary Movies
playing ditzy floozies.
This week the Friday Fling takes a fun Clerihewian poke at celebrities!
Be sure to save time to read and comment humbly
on your fellow Pals’ cutting Clerihews.
Then go be a rock star at something this weekend!
Below are just a few examples of possible Clerihewables!
Always such fun to try the forms. Looking forward to another wonderful challenge.