a poem in my pocket

A Clerihew is a comic verse on biographical topics consisting of two couplets and a specific rhyming scheme of aabb that was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) at the age of 16. The poem names a well-known person or character on the first line and the second line rhymes with the name of the person. (information from Gayle at dVerse Poets Pub)

architect Frank Lloyd Wright

designed art glass as screens of light;

natural surprise when artful otter

swam through his house of Falling Water!

_______

Henry Ford

was never bored;

he mastered the assembly line

ten million T’s rolled out on dime.

_______

concession vendor, Ernest Hamwi

crisply sold his waffle pastry;

made cones for ice cream at World’s Fair

now world screams for their fair share!