Rhyme Me A Smile: August 2014

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Is Your Food Drought Tolerant?

Edible Advice

by Rachel Hoyt

Lettuce chop

our water use

eating crops

that don't abuse.

Orange you

a drop concerned?

Corn it be true

all chops are earned?

Olive Earth

is drenched with greed,

suckling since birth

where instinct leads.

Cheese, Louise,

we've chugged and chewed

all we could seize,

all sprouts and spews.

Beef or all

our fruits are dried,

sip a tall

glass of, "I tried."

California's almonds have been getting some bad press.

Some make it sound like they're the cause of my state's water mess.

Yet, if most looked at all that they ate and gauged it's water use,

they'd see that produce guzzles but only animals abuse.

Technorati Tags: California, Drought, Poem, Rhyme, Food, Poetry

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Lucid Dreamers Think Outside The Box

Think Rebound

by Rachel Hoyt

image by 2nix via freedigitalphotos.net

Lucidity uncorks my mind,

right when I want to unwind,

just as stresses cease to be,

and, for a moment, I float free.

Then my tormentors appear,

as blank faces or ones held dear,

surrounded by strange scenery,

things I feel but can't quite see.

Once awake, I know the gist,

my gears feel oiled, begin to twist,

form answers where light seemed expired,

to all except why I'm still tired.

New research on lucid sleep

shows it's truly not as deep

and that it means that that brain can

solve problems outside its span.

Technorati Tags: Road, Path, Poem, Rhyme, Thoughts, Poetry

Saturday, August 16, 2014

From Wanderers to Drivers to Freight

Road Work

by Rachel Hoyt

image by sippakorn via freedigitalphotos.net

We walked the path less traveled

and found we liked the way.

We carved the earth with trowels

and oxen carts and sleighs.

We made wheels so we would roll

faster down dusty trails.

We smoothed the bumps, filled the holes,

to make our paths less frail.

We now use the less traveled

to make the journey great.

We set aside our trowels

and turned into the freight.

This poem was inspired by A Brief History of the Road,

things in nature and inventions that help us move loads.

Technorati Tags: Road, Path, Poem, Rhyme, Thoughts, Poetry

Saturday, August 9, 2014

The Inconvenient Timing of Eureka Moments

Lost Poem

by Rachel Hoyt

image by MR LIGHTMAN via freedigitalphotos.net

Missing: one poem in rhyme,

Last seen Wednesday around nine.

Two lines in the shower came,

Then dribbled right down the drain;

Three feelings blew through at noon,

Then skipped off to hop the moon;

Four signs on my commute shone,

Then went dark as sunset moaned;

Five rhymes chimed in a bird's song,

Then were hushed by a ding-dong;

Six words sparkled in my eyes,

Then went mute like stealthy spies.

The lines vanished before my pen,

Somewhere between now and when.

Wired recently examined why creativity sprouts

when you're in the shower or out and about.

Technorati Tags: Creativity, Brainstorm, Poem, Rhyme, Thoughts, Poetry

Saturday, August 2, 2014

A Reward Seems Greater if it Comes From Your Choice

Pro-Choice

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Stuart Miles via freedigitalphotos.net

My choice is better than your choice

because the thought was mine;

My choice is truer to my voice,

yours imitates it fine;

My choice is cause to rejoice,

yours (sometimes) tickles my spine.

Scientists say we like our choices more

than any plan another might have in store.

Technorati Tags: Choice, Reward, Poem, Rhyme, Thoughts, Poetry