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I do like Piña Coladas, but I haven't had one in decades.

July 10, 2025, at home

I struggle with Diabetes, Congestive Heart Failure, and Restrictive Lung Disease.

July 10, 2025, at home

I have written more than 300 poems since 1986, but I have never written a cherihew. Many of my poems have been published in national and international poetry anthologies through poetry contests.

"On July 10 each year, National Clerihew Day in the United States celebrates a poem style created by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. His four-line biographical poem offers a brief, though whimsical, approach to poetry." - National Day Calendar

"A clerihew poem must include:

Four lines.

Rhyming couplets of AA/BB.

A person's name in the first line.

Something said about that person.

Humor because clerihew poems are meant to be a funny poem."

Here's an example of a clerihew:

"Sir Humphry Davy

Abominated gravy.

He lived in the odium

Of having discovered sodium."

July 10, 2025, at home