It's National Poetry Day

[krizon]

And yes, 'Clerihew': for them what is less cleverer than Brian:

Clerihew: A form of comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically-irregular lines, containing the name of a well-known person. 20th Century, after Clerihew Bentley, 1875-1956, the writer who invented it.

(Ack.: The Collins Concise Dickshunry.)

 

[BrianH]

Here's some more Nash:

The Wombat

The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods,
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

 

[krizon]

There was an Old Man of Thermopylae,
Who never did anything properly;
But they said, 'If you choose, to boil eggs in your shoes,
You shall never remain in Thermopylae.' h

There was an Old Man on the Border,
Who lived in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border. :angy:

There was an Old Person of Hove,
Who frequented the depths of a grove;
Where he studied his books, with the wrens and the rooks,
That tranquil Old Person of Hove.