The Friday Fling Celebrates Columbus Day!
Friday Fling #149 October 7th 2011
It’s Columbus Day weekend! And we’re here to celebrate with Clerihews. As ShadowPoetry.com notes,
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.
Garfield the cat
On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.
Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers
No syllable count, AABB rhyme. Simple huh? We’ve done this format before on the Fling.
This week the Friday Fling kicks off Columbus Day weekend with Columbian Clerihews!
Be sure to save time to explore your fellow Pals’ poetic shores and comment commendably. Then sail away to new adventures over the weekend horizon!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for September 30th
Congratulations Mary Margaret!
:love: 😀 Good evening Flingers!
Welcome everyone to our Pre-Comumbian Friday Fling! This week we’re taking our cue from the upcoming holiday and challenging you to explore and discover Clerihews about Columbus Day! We hope you enjoy this challenge!
This is by my good friend, Sonnets! Thank you so much for your contribution, Lori!
Columbus sailed the blue
In the year fourteen hundred ninety two
Proving that the world wasn’t flat
His sailing trip really didn’t prove that
Queen Isabella gave him money and ships
Her progressive thinking forward and so hip
Searching for the EAst Indies, he found the new World
Then back again to Spain his story unfurled
The voyage he travelled for so very long
The land he thought he found was wrong
He was accused of incompetence, sent back to Spain
Columbus and his two brothers arrived manacled in chains
I’m having some issues with getting logged off of Friendburst every time I try to get on a blog. I was finally able to get on so if I should vanish again, that is what happened..lol
I have to call it a night now but I will be back tomorrow throughout the day. Have a wonderful evening and keep bringing your Clerihews! :love:
Difficult to believe it’s already that time of year already. Wonderful blog and pieces posted.
Good morning on this fine Friday! Have a wonderful day and I will see you all when I get home from work! :love: It’s going to be a nice weekend here in Ohio! :groovy:
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ONE OF THE CREW: A Columbus Day Clerihew (String)
Chris Columbus of old,
an explorer so bold,
sailed oceans of blue
with his ships and his crew.
They were looking for land
and found some so grand,
even exceeding their dreams
and their plans and their schemes.
And every October we recall
Columbus and his adventures all
and how they sailed the oceans blue.
I’d sure love to have been one of the crew.
(c) barbara kausteklis 10-7-11
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But assuming there’s no such thing
as a Clerihew string . . . .
Every October we recall
Columbus and his adventures all
and how they sailed the oceans blue.
I’d sure love to have been one of the crew.
~barb~
All such wonderful clerihews and pieces. I love each one of them. Such fun to participate. Happy Columbus Day!
ok guys being of the guap love thought I would lighten it up hehheheh :love: :love: :love:
Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In the year 1492
Natives were already there
The land they would have to share.
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This weekend is actually Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada! 🙂
THE MIGHTY ADVENTURES
Christopher Columbus
And him mighty men
Thought that they had discovered America
But what they didnt know waz
That America waz already here just on the other side of them
Written By: Bettie Davis —————— © October o6 , 2o11
Columbus Ship
Sails away to new adventures over the horizon
with Colombian Clerihews
Time to explore
A new world
Columbus did endure
Written By: Bettie Davis ——————– © October o6 , 2o11
Round & Round Da Ship Weee Gooo ~
East Tooo West Th_ Boats Doth Flow ~
Just Tooo Prove Th_ Queen Dont Know !!!
Th_ Worlds Nut Flat As Columbus Must Show ~
Written Byyy g.T
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:love: Playin & Prayin Wit Da Mean Queeen Of Hearts :love:
Da Queeen & King Sez Columbus…
Bring Us… Sum Fungus Amoung Us…
Turn Ober Sum Rocks !!! Sum Dirt ~
Show Proof Of Thyyy Hard Work !!!
Or Your Neck Willl Beee Rungus
Then You’lll Beee Hungus
Sooo Orders Your Country In What Sheee Said !!!
AAA New World Order Bets Off Wit Your Head !!!
Racin Against Th_ Oneness !!!
Against Th_ Oceans Funess ~
From East Tooo West
Finds Red Indians Sted…
Finds Da Worlds But Not Flat !!!
Round Isss Round & Dats Dat !!!
& Stilll Heee’s Nut Dead !!!
Has AAA Head Tooo Place His Feather In His Hat !!!
Written Byyy Da Bumpus !!!
As Historys Read These Lines Are Brungus !!!
Only In Matters Of Facts !!!
Butt Stilll Seee Da Executioner Waitin Wit His Ax !!!
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