Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Wacky Word Wednesday - Confabulate

Confabulate
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by digitalart via freedigitalphotos.net
 

You might confabulate
when trying to relate
a story that makes you sound great.
 
To tell half-tall tales is to confabulate.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 


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Friday, July 26, 2013

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Nose

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?
 
 
Nose
Grows
Sniff
Whiff
Eye
Spy
Look
Shook
 
 
Above are the words.
Get writing rhyme nerds!
There will be no winner. This is just for fun
and the joy of rhyming a smile for everyone.
 

Thursday, July 25, 2013

A Pantoum Poem Inspired by Detroit's Bankruptcy

Debt Reckoning
by Rachel Hoyt

image by akeeris via freedigitalphotos.net

Later has become now.
Debt dominoes are falling.
"I can't," must become, "How?"
"I won't," just sounds appalling.

Debt dominoes are falling.
Where will the pattern stop?
"It won't," sounds so appalling.
Why must all the dominoes drop?

Where will the pattern stop?
We could be saved by a gap.
Must all of the dominoes drop?
We may have built our own trap.

We could be saved by a gap.
We must pull out some dominoes.
We may have built our own trap.
Not thinking of tomorrow shows.

We must pull out some dominoes.
"I can't," must become, "How?"
Not thinking of tomorrow shows.
Later has become now.
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
 
I can't help but wonder who seeks solvency?
 
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Wacky Word Wednesday - Cantrip

Cantrip
(can trip)

by Rachel Hoyt

image by idea go via freedigitalphotos.net


can trip you,
trick you,
put you under a spell,
and silence your yell.

It's magic used tragically,
slick witchy trickery -
like the apple Snow White nipped,
that one bite slip,
a deadly cantrip.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 


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Friday, July 19, 2013

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - A View

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?
 
 

 
View
Through
Walk
Talk
Bright
Light
 
 
Above are the words.
Get writing rhyme nerds!
There will be no winner. This is just for fun
and the joy of rhyming a smile for everyone.

 

 

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Wacky Word Wednesday - Hobbledehoy

Hobbledehoy
(HOB uhl dee hoy)
 
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Katie Lane via freedigitalphotos.net
 
is an awkward boy -
un-savvy, few ploys,
has no modern toys,
needs lessons in poise,
and hides his source of joy -
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 


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Saturday, July 13, 2013

A Poem Inspired by Edward Snowden and Other Leaks

The Leak
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Jomphong via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
I heard it in the drip,
"A leak is like a rip.
Once one drop gets to speak,
the flow will never be weak.
Drips enjoy splashing about,
helping leaks really spill out.
Once the pool starts to form,
spilling becomes the norm.
The first drip gets the blame,
though all drops fall the same."
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
Snowden started the leak that now flows,
but is his leak worse than the ones that followed?

Friday, July 12, 2013

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Stem

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?
 
 
 
 
Stem
Gem
Hue
Dew
Green
Scene
 
Above are the words.
Get writing rhyme nerds!
There will be no winner. This is just for fun
and the joy of rhyming a smile for everyone.
 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Wacky Word Wednesday - Macrology

Macrology
(Mac rah lo gee)
 
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by lamnee via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
Masterful macrology
is the kind of thing that you might see
while mingling at a cocktail party -

It's the superfluity
of words that are empty -
talk without thought - macrology.
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 


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Saturday, July 6, 2013

A Poem in Honor of Vegan Sellouts and Conscious Carnivores

The Conscious Carnivore's Chant
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by nixxphotography via freedigitalphotos.net
 

I know that my resolve is not
strong enough, and it's all I've got,
so I will not become vegan.
I won't give up Green Eggs and Ham.
There's no carnage more stinky than
a once vegan who kicked the can.

I can't give up my cheese and milk.
They taste, to me, like cream and silk.
Plus, meat eat eaters let much milk spoil
and spilled milk still makes my blood boil...
Still, milk carnage stinks much less than
a once vegan who kicked the can.

I'll eat much less, but need some meat
once in a while - a diet treat.
I will seek meat that is raised with freedom
and love it to its end with a loud, "Yum."
Still, will my carnage stink any more than
a once vegan who kicked the can?

I will stand tall with the 'sellouts' who
had to give up veganism to
love things both of and on the Earth
and conquer food shame felt since birth.
For there is one thing more stinky than
a once vegan who kicked the can:
The shame bomb's swarthy, rotten smoke -
the vegan's exhaled verbal poke.
 
© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
I read about a site that was created to shame -
but when I tried to see it for myself
the content had gone missing from the shelf.
Directed instead to meet my meat,
I wondered who inspired them to be more discreet.
 
 
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Clock

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?
 
 


Tick
Tock
Brick
Block
Nick
Knock
Tick
Tock
 
Above are the words.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Wacky Word Wednesday - Anagapesis

Anagapesis
(an a ga PE sis)

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Stuart Miles via freedigitalphotos.net

is a love recess
that does not get dismissed -

It's a love no longer missed,
for which you aren't remiss -

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 


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