The Friday Fling Creates Cartoon Characters With Clerihews!
Friday Fling #195 August 31st 2012
Do you remember the Fling we did where you were challenged to write about your favorite cartoon character? I think we may have done that more than once. Anyway, we thought this time, just for fun, we’d challenge you to MAKE UP a cartoon character! And write about him/her/it in a Clerihew!
The Clerihew is a short poetry format which, much like the Limerick, is specifically designed to discuss people – well creatures. As explained by ShadowPoetry.com,
A Clerihew is a comic verse consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme,
aabb invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem
is about/deals with a person/character within the first rhyme. In most cases, the first
line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
One of the most remembered Clerihew from Bentley’s collection is:
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Here’s a more recent example:
Garfield the cat
The On his rear he sat.
Eating lasagna galore
All about the decor.
Copyright © 2000 James & Marie Summers
Since you are free to invent not only the character but a name for him/her/it, you can determine what rhyme ends the first couplet!
If Disney or Warners’ calls asking about movie rights, Michelle or I will be sure to let you know!
This week the Friday Fling invents fictional favorites and clarifies them in Clerihews!
Be sure to save time to read and comment comically on your fellow Pals’ inventions. Then go enjoy an amusingly long holiday weekend!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for August 24th
Congratulations Barbara!
Here are some images to stir your muse. Actually one or more of these may be real cartoon characters already, we just have not seen any of them in a real cartoon yet ourselves. But they are shown here mainly to get you thinking about what attributes your imaginary character would possess, before you Clerihewize it.
Welcome everyone to the Friday Fling’s Labor Day Weekend eve cartoon character workshop! We’re here to create our own favorites out of whole wordcloth, and shape them via Clerihew! Note that you can do your poem as one Clerihew, or do multiple stanzas in Clerihew’s AABB rhymescheme, as long as you try to use the name of your character in the first line like you would in a Limerick. Also, you may of course do more than one! So let your muse out to run riot through your imagination and see what pops out worthy of a cartoon showcasing! It can include one or more of your characteristics, or a friend’s, or anyone’s, or no one’s! Entirely up to youse! Be Creative and Have Fun!
Hello Bob and Michelle new form yet again huh … Yeah me will be ‘a tryin huhmmmm .. Sho will … Awesome Blog … Hugs :groovy: :entertained: :love: 🙂
SHAW AND DRAW
I once knew someone name Shaw
That could really draw
He also dibble in paintings
But it but always looked so faintings
© Bettie Davis – August 3o , 2o12
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This is not exactly what we had in mind for this challenge, but once I got the idea, I had to run with it. You may recognize the eight “cartoon characters” in this tribute. Each one has his or her own Clerihew stanza.
A GANG OF CYBERHEROES
My cartoon is peopled by eight superheroes,
each one worth just one with six added zeroes.
In case you can’t picture that, it makes a million,
each from that number is one, in vermillion!
Superheroine Angelina Amour
always has plenty human kindness milk pure.
On daily wanderings she always carries
at least a few gallons of magic loveberries.
Like reincarnation of Lady Diana,
Itsmediane appeals more than a banana,
daycaring lovingly for little children
with manner so sweet and heart brightly gilden.
Bettie Spaghetti flies on cyber breezes,
giving acquaintances symbolic squeezes;
presenting to all eyes wherever she goes,
kind Southern greetings in Georgia peach prose.
Producing fine musings, one Hannah Barbara,
waters the deserts of cyber Sahara.
Her nature’s to praise Mother Nature’s achievements
in flowery poems made from divine conceivements.
Then there’s a honcho who goes by “Jay Tee,”
who rides herd on Mondays for you and for me.
A magical rodeo in the Corral
with writing efficiently terse. What a Pal!
Everyone enjoys to tarry with Cherie
Nary a reason to ever be wary.
Schoolteacher supreme with more than one feature,
a crackerjack poet and positive preacher.
So very swell is the belle named Michelle.
In love with her poetry everyone fell;
as well as a wonderful photographer,
“Come here at once!” Depp might telegraph her.
And let’s not forget the amazing A-Rhodi
without whom the CPC might have implodied
His lessons on blogging and enthusiasm
helped us all traverse the Lady Death chasm!
These are the heroes within the two covers
of the CPC, made for lively verse lovers.
They do exist beyond imagination,
creating a dream which induces elation.
Copyright August 30th 2012 RGD
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Iona Ford
Was always bored
She owned a car
But never went far.
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Iona named the car Clancy
It wasn’t very fancy
But it had an attitude
As Iona had little gratitude. 😉
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ok now that Michelle has posted her gassy one, I don’t feel so funny about reposting my randy quad from the TAT.
DAYDREAM BELIEVER
Gleamer the dreamer
dreams of a screamer
who goes quite moanly.
But only when lonely.
Gleamer the dreamer
would not drive a Beamer.
A maxivan only,
for him and Miss Moanly.
Gleamer the dreamer
is such a lame schemer.
If his van is rockin
don’t you come a knockin.
Gleamer the dreamer’s
a consciousness streamer.
He rocks his own world
when his daydream’s unfurled.
Copyright August 29th 2012 RGD
Madam Thank you is a cat
See is dainty, fed healthy choices to keep from being fat
She loves her milk for her skin, smooth silky fur and health
Enjoys her sparklling glasses as it makes her feel wealth
Well now yall here be me second attempt at this hem Clerihew write wit picture no dough ….
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THE GREAT POTTER
I love the great Harry Potter
He is such a plotter.
I cant do a thing like I would be to ashamed
Even to say him named.”
Written By: Bettie Davis —————- © August 3o , 2o12
SCOTTISH CYCLONE
Cammy Kilcanny will give you the Whammy
stronger than that of Yosemite Sammy.
She uses her cowlick to hypnotize bad guys,
that is after they’re done staring at her lush C size.
If they should approach the backside of Kilcanny,
they’ll be mesmerized by the shape of her fanny.
If all else fails and they get past her charms,
so that she must fight, she has hydraulic arms!
So don’t mess with her if you’re lacking in virtue,
or through a thick wall she will smack and insert you!
She’s a tough customer, drawn to the teeth,
from a hardy upbringing up yonder in Leith!
Copyright August 30th 2012 RGD
Gosh! I’m so sorry to have gotten here so late. Thanks so much, Scotorum and Michelle and everyone! Always fun to try these challenges. And this week’s is quite the challenge indeed. I’ll definitely have to sleep on the Clerihew . . . . will ponder and try to come up with something and come back tomorrow to comment. All of these are so very cute. :love: :love: :love:
Thanks to everyone who participated so creatively tonight by Cleri-hewing a poetic log! Still more Fling now that it’s actually Friday! 😀 :love:
Congras Giglfriend Barbara On The Fling Friday Award …
Hugs Now :love: :love:
NOT QUITE SMART ENOUGH
Smarty Arty
went to a party;
“Too smart for you” (2SMRT4U)
said his license plate too.
He cruised down the street
to see who he could meet;
and heads turned as he went by,
driving so fast he could almost fly.
When he got to the corner,
he was a real goner
as the friendly neighborhood cop
gave him a ticket after making him stop.
So Smarty Arty
who went to the party
wasn’t quite as smart as he thought,
driving so fast in the car he just bought.
(c) barbara kausteklis 8-31-12
My parents are the Heaven and earth.
My home is my body.
My power is my loyalty.
My magic is my training.
My life and my death is breathing.
My body is control.
My eyes are the sun and the moon.
My ears are sensitivity
My laws are self protection.
My strength is adaptability.
My ambition is taking every opportunity with fullness.
My friend is my mind.
My enemy is carelessness.
My protection is right action.
My weapons are everything that exists.
My strategy is one foot in front of the other.
My way is Ninja way.
Awesome Ninja indeed. I’ve grown to love the little ninjas of Lego fame as my two grandsons are such Ninjago fans. :love: :love: :love:
One more…lol!
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