Rhyme Me A Smile: teaching poetry

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

The Be in Believe

by Rachel Hoyt

image by nuchylee via freedigitalphotos.net

There's no need to study -

Just pray and repeat.

The wavelengths are steady,

Listen to the beat.

You'll feel in your bones that

You now know it all,

Once ritual's rat-a-tat

Breaks down your heart's wall.

about religions other than the one whose wisdom we choose to drink.

Water Rustlers

by Rachel Hoyt

image by vectorolie via freedigitalphotos.net

The city's their range.

The drops are their gold.

The funnel of change

Is their stout stronghold.

They fight to hydrate

Their people, their land.

They know the flood gates

Are in white gloved hands.

Water is now such a rare commodity

that the black market wants to bottle a sea.

Discursive

(dis kur siv)

by Rachel Hoyt

image by SOMMAI via freedigitalphotos.net

A story described as discursive,

Could be machine typed or in cursive,

It's plot line is defiantly dispersive,

Like a rambling tongue - discursive.

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.