Clerihews anyone
 

Talking of Trump today,
And there's much for us to go on,
We sincerely hope and pray
He will not be the last one.

This may get moved to D&A, but I'll post one:

Donald Trump
Once called the White House "a dump."
He seemed fond of Vladimir Putin;
One had to wonder for whom he was rooting.

John

Toby Young
Has been trying to delete his accumulated dung:
His Twitter account was a virtual Augean stable
And strongly offensive. I very much doubt he is able.

I've worked on a variant using animal names: critterhews.

Here's one:

The armadillo
Makes a terrible pillow.
Cold, hard and gray,
It keeps walking away.

The lion
has a mouth big enough to put a guy in
and hence I think it would be sage
not to join it in its cage.

The zebra or zebra
is not lacking a single vertebra.
It is a backboned creature:
not Congress's defining feature.

An Elegant Pig
if given a sprig
of parsley with his slop
will eat it non-stop.

The owl
wears a scowl
without reason or basis.
It's just the way his face is.

Basking sharks
are drawn to sunny parks.
Why, you ask?
They love to bask.

A duck-billed platypus
once spat a "fuck"-filled splatter cuss
at God
for making him look so odd.

The three-toed sloth
doth
move with some deliberation.
This is also true of people in high station.


PS These things feel like a cross between Edmund Clerihew Bentley and Edward Lear.

The elephant or pachyderm
will never trouble to confirm
if he remembers all they claim
or else forgets things just the same.