Thursday Thoughts - On Sadness and Spending

Penny Diamond

by Rachel Hoyt

 

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Penny Diamond lives conflicted,

as her name surely implies.

Her moniker predicted

she'd depict all of those lies

advertising has inflicted

on innocent minds, ears, and eyes -

an identity afflicted

by the joy money can buy.

Penny Diamond sees a ring pop

and heads to buy shiny jewelry.

She feels the need to get a mop,

so she calls the cleaning lady.

Penny watches a bunny hop,

then needs something new and furry.

She smells Big E's Bacon Foods Shop

and finds four courses more worthy.

Penny is not too peculiar,

nor a diamond in the rough,

but her name implies she's ruler

of those ignoring bought joy's bluff.

Penny's parent's hoped they'd fool her,

but they too couldn't buy enough

to make poor Penny cooler

and fulfilled by frivolous stuff.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

 

 

 

A study has shown being sad can be quite expensive,

so if the season gets you down, while shopping, be pensive.

 

 

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Bibelot

Bibelot

(BIB loh)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

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You buy a bibelot

not for show,

but because you know,

inside it can stow

memories to make you glow.

Beloved knick-knacks from abroad are bibelots.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


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Thursday Thoughts - Ostriches Are The Other Red Meat

Ostracized Meat

by Rachel Hoyt

Oh ostrich, don't hate me,

but I've had an itch lately

for your feathers and leathers,

but my tastebuds won't teather

that with love for your meat -

lean red meat I won't eat!

Yet ostrich, I'm sorry,

to decorate Safari

I will need your plumes and hide,

Though I desire to sustainably abide...

And I bet if you were truthful,

you would wish to feel more useful.

Oh ostrich, I wish,

you were the main dish,

on some scoundrel's plate

so I could blame your fate

on carnivore's taste

and the need to not waste.

Ostrich, can't you see

the Klein Karoo Kooperasie

unintentionally freed

you from tastebud greed

with onomotopea...

Yet are you thankful we don't eat ya?

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

 

 

 

Not poultry or game but currently classified the same,

I wonder if we will ever prefer ostrich to turkey?

I think I would rather give up feathers and leathers

than eat the gorgeous birds for whom I wrote these silly words.
 

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Esthesia

Esthesia

by Rachel Hoyt

 

Esthesia or aesthesia

is the opposite of anaesthesia -

it's the ability to feel the

pleasures that please ya

and pains that seize ya -

esthesia.

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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Thursday Thoughts - Judges and Creative Sentencing

Judge Shamus

by Rachel Hoyt

 

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If you dare deface my town,

I will dress you as a clown.

If you steal from the needy,

You'll be temp-tattooed 'Greedy'.

If you ditch cats in the cold,

You'll sleep where there's no stronghold.

I seek an eye for an eye,

Creatively, on the fly.

You may think that I am cruel,

But only you make you a fool.

I just flaunt your foolishness

And shame you with my wittiness.

 

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 

 

This poem is about creative judges

who bravely risk reputation smudges

by creatively sentencing to help some learn

in life reputation is something you earn.

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Cautelous

Cautelous

(KOH tuh luhs)

 

by Rachel Hoyt
 

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One who is cautelous

Sits back watching us,

Hoping not to cause a fuss

While slyly tricking us.

Crafty but cautious -

That's cautelous.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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Thursday Thoughts - On Hair Extensions and Buying Beauty

Strip and Sell Rapunzel

by Rachel Hoyt

 

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Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

Give me your hair!

Mine's so lifeless and dull -

You will look fine bare.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

What can you do?

Few things we want to cull

Grow on top of you.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

It will grow back.

Sans vanity, the skull

Is a shining shack!

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

This costs a lot.

Your suff'ring I can't mull

While my joy is bought.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

 

This poem is to help all remember where hair extensions come from
and the message one sends the world every time they buy one.

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Izzat

Izzat

(IZ ut)

by Rachel Hoyt

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Izzat

is not a nut,

but lives in your gut,

in your soul's hut -

to insults it says, "What?!

I'm no stray mutt,

nor ghost of King Tut.

I'm me, like you but

with more honor, izzat."

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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Thursday Thoughts - Sweden Wants to Buy Your Trash

Recycling the Reign

by Rachel Hoyt

 

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Poor Mafia. Now Sweden is "the boss" -

The new lion in the trash tree of life,

Gobbling garbage, brewing energy sauce.

In a land where recycling is too rife

They use trash to provide a basic need,

Now the lack of trash is their only strife.

 

On others' overabundance they feed,

Assisting others but mostly themselves,

Though they agree the time will come to cede.

 

Still, who's to say that a man with good elves

Could not put a stop to their genius plan?

(Someone with very few books on their shelves.)

 

The Swede rising shows what you think, you can -

When ideas are on fire, put them near a fan.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

This terza rima poem was inspired by the news that Sweden

is importing trash to burn to warm their people's dens.

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