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Sacred Grounds Clerihews

Dan Brady, host of the Sacred Grounds Reading Series

There’s nothing like getting obsessed over writing these paired and rhymed couplets. It’s a great way to learn about exact rhymes. My over-the-top enthusiasm is a bit scary for Jack Foley. He keeps shaking his hands: Stop! Stop! Quality, please. 

Well, just a few more, for the Sacred Grounds poets:

Laurie Hampton prints a poem
more stylish than a Russian goem

“Justice” is she
Say, can you see?

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Bill Mercer dips his brushes
to make smudges and rushes

Buddha by the bayou
cooks red bean and rice for you

*

Don Brennan
fires a cannon

aims at the Empire
stakes it like a vampire

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From Sacramento comes Kellyann Conway
with her GPS there’s only one-way

to Sacred Grounds she goes
on her tippy toes

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Greg Pond
calm as a frond

takes you into darkness
exposes interior starkness

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Deirdre Evan’s crypt
is plainly in her script

She is Mother Goose
who has since run loose

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Christopher Trian gives you a head
in paint, without the lead

He’s tall as a tower
and boy, his voice is power

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Carlos Ramirez dances
goes into trances

time is lost
in the frost

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Owen Dunkel writes
the metaphor of kites

high flying are they
before diving into the bay

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Buford Buntin has a story
that has nothing to do with fiori

he gives a helping hand
to a fallen kid in the sand

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Foley starts the clerihews
When Hsu attempts they lose their hues

He begs her to stop
before the verses go flop

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2 thoughts on “Sacred Grounds Clerihews”

  1. Clara, it’s a mystery without a clue
    Clara, why some rhymes won’t alway fit the shoe

    — I mean the ear; the word looks the right size
    yet the sound turns left; nyet your playful wink tells all by eye.

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