Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Reflection

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?

 

 

 

Reflection

Intention

Gazing

Amazing

Beauty

Greenery

 

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.

 

Are California's High Speed Trains Just a Dream?

Dream Train

by Rachel Hoyt

 

 

 

We chug along, dreaming our dreams -

at least to some they're dreams it seems -

Dreams of not driving everywhere,

Dreams of a reasonable fare,

Dreams of a route from A to B

that's environmentally friendly,

Dreams of flight speeds without the height,

Dreams with not a single red light,

Dreams of feeling connected to

these pathways which can lead us through

to places we find and build dreams,

where dreams are life's supportive beams.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

They say the high speed train is not a cause which should succeed.

I say it is a dream which oil kings wish to squash with greed.

Technorati Tags: Sustainability, Farming, Recycle, Rhyme, Poem, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Cachinnate

Cachinnate

(kak eh naht)

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by Tina Phillips via freedigitalphotos.net

To cachinnate

is to laugh great,

spill pure elate,

jiggle joy's gate -

cachinnate.

 

© 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.

 

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Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Fruit Art

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?

 

 

Art

Start

Heart

Cook

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.

 

A California Walnut Farm That Emulates Sustainability

Sustainability

by Rachel Hoyt

image by watiporn via freedigitalphotos.net

Sustainability

Understands what we need,

Supports the greater we,

Tames impatience and greed,

Asks the sun to shine free,

Invites the wind to blow,

Nurtures our trash with glee,

Annexes water's flow,

Believes in harmony,

Impedes daft destruction,

Looks for what should, could be,

Inspires waste reduction,

Tries to think like a seed,

Yearns for Earth to be freed.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

This news about a California walnut farm inspired me

to write an acrostic poem about sustainability.

Technorati Tags: Sustainability, Farming, Recycle, Rhyme, Poem, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Sook

Sook

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Stuart Miles via freedigitalphotos.net

I would not want to be a sook,

finding adventure in movies and books,

determined to stay in one nook -

a cowardly person, a sook.

© 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, Sook, Poetry

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Succulent

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?

 

 

 

Succulent

Opulent

Rising

Surprising

Generate

Create

 

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

 

Why Gmail Users Can't Expect Privacy

Text Traffic

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by Stuart Miles via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

The processor processes

The texts which one tosses

Into webs to whip them,

Ship them through thin air

Where privacy is rare.

The sticky web sticks to

Secrets and stats like glue

Hiding them far away

To stay as a memory

For all who wish to see.

The programming's programmed.

Privacy be damned.

The text once typed flies free.

Some see so photographic,

Remember text traffic.

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

I understand intellectually

why Gmail knows quite a bit about me,

but must they preach for zero privacy?

Wacky Word Wednesday - Meed

Meed

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by anankkml via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

One needs a meed

to heed the lead

to one who feeds

on the toil of steeds -

Dollars for deeds.

A wage is a meed.

 

© 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, Meed, Poetry

A Poem Pondering Off-Shore Fracking

Sinking Feeling

by Rachel Hoyt

 

 image by sakhorn38 via freedigitalphotos.net

 

I've got a sinking feeling

that we're sinking our own ship.

Although some hands are reeling,

on the sails they have no grip.

 

Pirates plunder the shallows

digging for buried treasure,

hoping the sea won't swallow

them and their sordid pleasures.

 

Nearby on sailboats, speed boats,

and yachts we sail along blind,

hoping that innocence floats

and ignorance calms the mind.

 

Deep down below bubbles hope,

a vital resource and glue

which bursts when prodded or groped,

dropping all it held onto.

 

I stand on land protected

by valiant hands dense with love,

gazing at seas injected

by greedy forces from above.

 

My ship is anchored, for now,

if yours sinks will mine follow?

Will the sea warn me somehow,

before it starts to swallow?

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

After reading of a sink hole that is slowly swallowing a town,

I was glad to know that nearby fracking was mostly shut down.

If only the ocean nearby was ruled by those whom it could drown...

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Cheese Platter

 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?

 

 

Cheese

Nuts

Please

Cuts

Pick

Fruit

Click

Loot

 

 

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

 

 

Wacky Word Wednesday - Galley-west

Galley-west

by Rachel Hoyt

image by digitalart via freedigitalphotos.net

Something described as galley-west

is in a state less than its best -

chaos, confusion, dazing unrest.

This stunned state can be called galley-west.

© 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, Galley-west, Poetry

If Cascarones Could Talk, What Would They Say?

image by Simon Howden via freedigitalphotos.net

 

 

Dearest cascarone cousin,

 

It's almost my time to crack.

The streets gleefully buzzing.

I'm waiting with my pack.

I was scared to die so soon

until I watched the others

with whom I'd bunked since June

burst into all their colors.

The joy the people show

when crushing us on friends

is such a beautiful glow -

it proves our lives must end.

Or souls yearn to be free

to scatter amongst the crowd.

Our afterlives as confetti

are when we make our species proud.

I hope to get crushed on a hairdo

that was fixed with lots of hairspray.

In fact, if I see someone who

looks good, I may jump today.

I hope you'll leave the shelf behind

someday and join the show.

 

From Fiesta with peace of mind,

 

Cascarone Cowboy, Geronimo

 

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

 

 

From China to Italy and Spain,

cascarones have brought joy again and again. 

Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Lions

 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?

 

 

 

 

Roar

Pour

Pipe

Hype

Drip

Lip

Shake

Fake

 

 

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.