Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Scooting

Bouts Rimés means "rhymed ends" in French and is a game or challenge where one person (me) makes a list of rhymed words and others (you) write the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given. It was known as Crambo in English and was quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Will you help me bring back this hip historical habit?

 

Shelly Seuss of Los Caped Barbarinos

Zoom

Scoot

Dream

Gloom

Moot

Steam

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

 

There will be no winner. This is just for fun

and the joy of spreading smiles somewhere to someone.

The Making of Los Caped Barbarinos

Shelly Seuss and Flying Flower

by Rachel Hoyt

I was running down a dream

when a new one flew to me:

a scooter gang making a scene

with capes flapping wild and free -

We smile at the joy and laughter around

(whether it flies with or at us)

and seek to enhance that which surrounds

the heaven where two wheels took us.

I whispered out my dream

to a flower flying by -

It echoed like a scream,

shot my dream across the sky -

"Shelly Seuss shall ride," said the stars,

"and she will wear a cape -

With Flying Flower you'll surprise cars

and make bystanders gape."

Now we scoot down our dream

following its scent beyond the breeze,

attempting to emit a glee beam,

while giving the world a cape tease.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Scooter, Gang, Group, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

 

 

A new scooter gang is forming in SB

which aims to fill the town with silly glee...


(Sorry that the video quality is a bit lacking.
We are happy to accept any extra GoPros you're packing.)
 

 

Flying Flower flying...

 

 

 

Shelly Seuss learns to fly...

 

Wacky Word Wednesday - Doyenne

Doyenne

(doi en)

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by Ambro via freedigitalphotos.net

You wouldn't use 'doyenne'

To describe important men,

Just  the highest ranked women,

Queens of the crop - doyennes.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Every week I rhyme and define a new wacky word.

Come on over to indulge your inner nerd.

And, please let me know of any weird words you've heard.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Words, Vocabulary, Poem, Rhyme, Doyenne, Poetry

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Thorns

Bouts Rimés means "rhymed ends" in French and is a game or challenge where one person (me) makes a list of rhymed words and others (you) write the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given. It was known as Crambo in English and was quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Will you help me bring back this hip historical habit?

 

Thorn

Adorn

Bumpy

Jumpy

Prick

Stick

 

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

 

There will be no winner. This is just for fun.

Thursday Thoughts - On Bitcoins

Bitman's Tree

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by idea go via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

For generations, Bitman males

Had dreamt of growing cash -

Great great grandpa wrote down his fails

And how his pa was rash

To think that planting a few coins

Could sprout unbridled wealth -

(He tested ways to nurture loins

And what brings money health.)

He never did make money trees

Or his son after him,

But little Billy Bitman, (geez!)

His vision was less slim -

"Bits of data around the world

Are like rare gems," he thought.

Soon a new type of coin unfurled,

Not seen, but often bought -

It floated around time and space

With more, then less, value,

No one could see the tree's home base,

But still his dream came true -

A calculation burst a seed

And people bought its leaves,

Fertilized with secrets and greed,

It grew cash one perceives.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Bitcoins (to some) are the latest, greatest thing,

but I believe its an imaginary value they bring.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Bitcoin, Currency, Cash, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Sonder

Sonder

(sohn dehrr)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by feelart via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Sonder is frame of view to ponder -

Belief that we individually wander,

Spin, fall, and float through the wild blue yonder,

Uniquely experience life - sonder.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Every week I rhyme and define a new wacky word.

Come on over to indulge your inner nerd.

And, please let me know of any weird words you've heard.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Words, Vocabulary, Poem, Rhyme, Sonder, Poetry

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Puppy Jump

Bouts Rimés means "rhymed ends" in French and is a game or challenge where one person (me) makes a list of rhymed words and others (you) write the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given. It was known as Crambo in English and was quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Will you help me bring back this hip historical habit?

 

This was my parents' puppy's first jump into the pool. ever.  Let's write about this scene (or a similar one) together.

 

 

Puppy

Jump

Guppy

Rump

First

Splash

Burst

Flash

 

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

There will be no winner. This is just for fun.
If you will, rhyme a smile here for everyone.

Thursday Thoughts - On Feeling Young and Growing Old

Still At Her Sill

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by happykanppy via freedigitalphotos.net

 

She said flowers just attract bees

And flung them "where they fly".

She told me running hurts your knees

As two grayed gents jogged by.

She said biking was for young things,

Not folks who lost their poise.

She told me throats hurt when one sings,

And yard work is for boys.

She said hiking is perilous -

One might roll down a hill.

She sat her whole life querulous

'Bout all seen from her sill.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

A scientific study has stamped it's approving seal

on the thought that you are as old as you feel.

Technorati Tags: Age, Old, Science, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Solipsistic

Solipsistic

(sol ip sis tic)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by kookkai_nak via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Someone solipsistic

Is beyond narcissistic,

Egocentrically opportunistic,

And selfishly simplistic -

The solipsistic....

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

Every week I rhyme and define a new wacky word.

Come on over to indulge your inner nerd.

And, please let me know of any weird words you've heard.

Technorati Tags: Words, Vocabulary, Poem, Rhyme, Solipsistic, Poetry

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Bunbury

Bouts Rimés means "rhymed ends" in French and is a game or challenge where one person (me) makes a list of rhymed words and others (you) write the lines that end with those rhymes, in the same order in which they were given. It was known as Crambo in English and was quite popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.  Will you help me bring back this hip historical habit?

 

Here's a photo I took of a little shelled friend I visit sometimes when my thoughts need to bend.  Use it with your poem if you like or tell us of your 'friend' who causes creative spikes.

 

 

 

Bunbury

Imaginary

Fantasy

Audacity

Traveling

Unraveling

Memory

Trajectory

 

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

There will be no winner.  This is just for fun.
If you will, rhyme a smile here for everyone.

Thursday Thoughts - Smart Phone Apps and Technological Advances

The Workey Jerkey

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Victor Habbick via freedigitalphotos.net

You put a gadget in,

You pull part of a job out,

You put a gadget in,

Then you shake the gigs about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put some software in,

You pull more humans out,

You put more software in,

Crunch and shake brain cells about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put a robot in,

You take multiple jobs out,

You put a robot in,

The economy swings about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

We can't be inconvenienced to diagnose our ills,

And desire same day delivery to increase our shopping thrills,

Then wonder why we have no money to pay the bills.

How do we expect to fix the recession

if robots are required for our world's progression?

 

 

Technorati Tags: Robot, Jobs, jobs, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Effrontery

Effrontery

(eff rhunt er ee)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

 

 

photo by imagerymagestic via freedigitalphotos.net

 

An act of effrontery

Has ample audacity,

Resembles skulduggery,

Is often perfunctory,

And does not intentionally

Inhibit your joy selfishly -

Effrontery.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Every week I rhyme and define a new wacky word.

Come on over to indulge your inner nerd.

And, please let me know of any weird words you've heard.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Words, Vocabulary, Poem, Rhyme, Effrontery, Poetry