Cleri-cember! Ok I Will Stop Trying to Combine Months and Poetry Types.

I have decided that December will be the month of the Clerihew poem!

Haven't heard of it?  Well it's not exactly Homer but some guy named Edmund Clerihew Bentley, pictured to the right, created this type of poem (presumably to make fun of people) when he was around 16.  A clerihew has these rules that I will be adapting for the month of December's plogging:*

1. The poem is biographical with four lines.
2. The first line will give someone's name.
3. The second line will rhyme with the first line.
4. The third and fourth lines rhyme, but can be any length.

An interesting tidbit about Sir Edmund Bentley, he was educated at Merton College in Oxford which is the birth town of this blog.  Since it is not a natural citizen, I guess this means my blog could never run for president.  It's a shame, just after Obama opened the doors to one-parent candidates...

Let the clerihew begin!!

Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Liked to poke fun at his friends, but gently.
So he did it with a light kind of poem
That was literary but wouldn't quite Henry Thoreau 'em.

*Poetry + blogging = plogging.  Just in case you don't follow this blog religiously, as you should.  Busted!