There were so many superb entries that selecting prize winners was quite a challenge.
FIRST PLACE - Barbara Morrow
The lyrics of Lesbian Sappho
made all the girls tingle and gasp so
In Athens, sage Solon did cry,
"Let me learn her new song, and then die."
SECOND PLACE - Neil Golden
R. Buckminster Fuller
taken for a leg puller
spake the truth we ignore:
1 + 1 = 4.
THIRD PLACE - Gill Reavill
Jane Austen
wrote books we get lost in
When "Do you read novels?" I hear
I say, "All six, every year."
SPECIAL HONORABLE MENTION RECOGNITION
to the most witty international contestants for their prolific output of clerihew gems.
Ken Lovell of Tipton, West Midlands, England
Pamela RenaidellaRena of Florence, Italy
THANKS TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS FOR THE APT and AMUSING CLERIHEWS YOU SENT US.
posted by LSS
