Storming the Capitol
Trump set their touchpaper alight They marched there tooled up for a fight They’re so convinced that they are right And most still live – because they’re white
Writing: Four Lines That Rhyme
Quick quatrains with a rhyme scheme.
A Christmas ode
Opening presents, singing songs, Telling Christmas stories, Spreading seasonal goodwill And, mostly, hating Tories
Clerihew: Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill Will fight them on the beaches like Churchill She’s been cancelled and silenced by opinion shapers She’ll tell you all about it in the national newspapers pic: Pete Linforth at Pixabay
Clerihew: Madonna
Madonna Was nearly a goner When she stepped on a mine Crossing over the borderline
Clerihew: Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes Wrote poems in the rhythm of the blues He gave folk the shivers With ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’
Clerihew: J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling Is bawling and howling That a wolf can change into a human But a man can’t change into a woman
Clerihew: Princess Anne
Princess Anne Married a man Who served in the Forces Ah well – horses for courses
Clerihew: Nadia Whittome
Nadia Whittome Knows how to hit ’em When the leader’s a drip She’s defying the whip
Clerihew: Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten Has obviously forgotten The establishment he maligned Now he talks bollocks: never mind
Clerihew: Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams Is dancing with Madams Instead of with Misters Ten points for the sisters
Clerihew: Morrissey
Morrissey Is even worse than Boris, he Had a stroke of luck When he missed that ten-tonne truck
Clerihew: Laurence Fox
Laurence Fox from the school of no knocks Champion of the overdog a poundshop Rees Mogg
Clerihew: Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg As I’m sure you must have heard Was jailed and murdered as she would not conform And preferred revolution to reform
Clerihew: Michael Gove
Michael Gove Spun and stitched and wove A tapestry of policy Of bloody awful quality . . . . Photo: Chris McAndrew / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
Clerihew Times Two: Herbert Morrison / Peter Mandelson
Herbert Morrison was moderate and worrisome He had an appropriate grandson: Peter Mandelson Peter Mandelson could not get a handle on The passionate, radical, principled and quarrelsome: rather like his grandfather, Herbert Morrison
Clerihew: Simon de Montfort
Simon de Montfort got off on the wrong foot He persecuted the Jewish but won the Battle of Lewes
Clerihew: Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott jumps like a rabbit from homophobic bile to climate change denial
Clerihew: Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst among feminists, ranked first Until she ruined her story by becoming a Tory
Know Your Enemy
To see the roots of poverty the plight of the have-nots Don’t look at little dinghies but at massive super-yachts
Flounce
Why should I give the time of day to folk who take their ball away Especially if that taken ball is punctured, flat and very small?