rain
drought
mine
tulip
A huge flood of rain
Came after the drought in Spain.
It flooded your house and mine,
Uprooted tulip tree, oleander and pine.
goat
sack
punch
fire
goat sack punch fire
If a goat butts you in the back
Or your sack
Of groceries splits, then you can punch
Anyone, set fire to the supermarket, saying Thanks a Bunch!
uncle
water tower
aardvark
cleric
uncle
water tower
aardvark
cleric
My uncle Ned looks for flowers
Under water towers.
Last time he found an aardvark in a vanilla pod;
As a cleric, he took it as proof of the existence of God.
honour
smith
curd
roll
honour
smith
curd
roll
Cash for Honours caught many
Among them Miss Smith and Mr Penny.
Inventors of lemon curd and jams, with plenty of money
The Dame and Lord rolled in milk and honey.
pillule
tree
banjo
mince
pillule
tree
banjo
mince
I had a pillule for flu
Composed of tea tree, hibiscus and yew.
I felt so good my banjo flew into my hand
As I ground mince pies and Christmas pud into the sand.
sand
giraffe
musk
yellow
sand
giraffe
musk
yellow
Last night I walked across the sand
To where a giraffe played in a band
The night smelled of hyacinths and of musk
The yellow moon barely shone in the dusk.
paint
ribald
circle
stick
paint
ribald
circle
stick
It's fun to paint a stream
Of daubs on a ribald theme.
First draw a scarlet quim, or circle, and a purple dick
Which could be construed as a stick.
holly
vole
whippet
screw
holly
vole
whippet
screw
Holly G breakfasted at Tiffany's
Where you seldom see a vole
A whippet is scarcely more likely there
And a screw you drive into a hole
Hey I've never seen this thread before! Did I do it right?
Captain Ahab
butterfly
Ford Mustang
syllabub
Well, if you look at the original clerihew, it was rhymed aa, bb. But it's difficult to resist your particular predilection, so perhaps what we should say is either aa, bb or abab. The important thing is the irregular lengths of lines.
Captain Ahab
butterfly
Ford Mustang
syllabub
Captain Ahab killed a whale
He could have impaled a butterfly on a nail
Or crashed a Ford Mustang into a tree
Or thrown a syllabub at me.
indigo
peach
wench
Garfield
Indigo was quite a lass
In fact she was a peach
As a wench she would always pass
Tho without Garfield Sobers' reach.
Blossom
Pucker
Matches
Corsets.
blossom
pucker
matches
corsets
Pink apple blossom sheets the ground
Jed puckered his lips and frowned.
He reached for the matches and put them on the fire
Unmindful of the effects of smoke on sheets, corsets and bras all over the shire.
garage
pit
warder
drains
Garage the car, James, I won't be needing it
I'm off to Bedfordshire, or my pit
Where the warder of my dreams will have me in thrall, in chains
As meanwhile Corporation look after the drains
dahlia
Wittgenstein
bacon
gravity
Bad hair day, Clary? Since when were you the Wild Man of Borneo?
It just appealed to me, and was the first avatar I came across small enough to be posted!! Will change sometime soon, because Mathos likes it.
So where's the cleri, Hugh?
dahlia
Wittgenstein
bacon
gravity
My hair is as wild as any scarlet dahlia
Wittgenstein's granny thought he'd be a failure.
It's breakfast time and I'd love eggs and bacon.
But gravity will out and such things will definitely put weight on.
jalapeño
Barça
Übermensch
château
Hey I can't do the fiddly bits on the letters
jalapeño
Barça
Übermensch
château
The Jalapenos are a rock band who play around West Lancs
Barca was overwhelmed by Franco's tanks
Ubermench gets a menchion when you're discussing war
Visit friends, drink Chateau Lafitte, 'cause that's what friends are for.
muesli
collander
drought
shoe-rack
Ha! The twiddly bits are what I especially wanted!
muesli
collander
drought
shoe-rack
I'm not going to have muesli, it's too calorific;
I have a colander of pineapple which looks and smells terrific.
Southeast Oz has a terrible drought
Skeletal cattle like shoe-racks wandering about.
haze
bra
tiddlywinks
pancreas
"Purple haze, all in my brain" sang Jimmy, all the rage
Tom Jones' gigs had pants and bras thrown at the stage
Calmer folks played tiddlywinks, the scene is almost seminal
Pancreas/Kings' Cross will be the new high-speed train terminal
Hey sorry about that
Contrition
constitution
constellation
consternation
no let's try
frog
garden gnome
winter tyres
Blackpool
Like that one, and I can see why you took away the easy options.
frog
garden gnome
winter tyres
Blackpool
A prince, disguised as a frog,
Sat beside the garden gnome in my bog
Garden. I was changing my winter tyres for summer
Before eloping to Blackpool with my plumber.
vest
pantechnicon
yogurt
lummox
The plumber had a vest, plastered to his hairy chest
The pantechnicon arrived an hour late
With some yogurt in the pot, I assessed my sorry lot
And I wished I'd left that lummox at the gate.
A4 paper
laminate
neoprene
dandruff
