Thursday Thoughts - On Hair Extensions and Buying Beauty

Strip and Sell Rapunzel

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by idea go via freedigitalphotos.net

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

Give me your hair!

Mine's so lifeless and dull -

You will look fine bare.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

What can you do?

Few things we want to cull

Grow on top of you.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

It will grow back.

Sans vanity, the skull

Is a shining shack!

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,

This costs a lot.

Your suff'ring I can't mull

While my joy is bought.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

 

This poem is to help all remember where hair extensions come from
and the message one sends the world every time they buy one.

 

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Wacky Word Wednesday - Izzat

Izzat

(IZ ut)

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Danilo Rizzuti via freedigitalphotos.net

Izzat

is not a nut,

but lives in your gut,

in your soul's hut -

to insults it says, "What?!

I'm no stray mutt,

nor ghost of King Tut.

I'm me, like you but

with more honor, izzat."

 

© 2012 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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Thursday Thoughts - Sweden Wants to Buy Your Trash

Recycling the Reign

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by hinnamsaisuy via freedigitalphotos.net

 

Poor Mafia. Now Sweden is "the boss" -

The new lion in the trash tree of life,

Gobbling garbage, brewing energy sauce.

In a land where recycling is too rife

They use trash to provide a basic need,

Now the lack of trash is their only strife.

 

On others' overabundance they feed,

Assisting others but mostly themselves,

Though they agree the time will come to cede.

 

Still, who's to say that a man with good elves

Could not put a stop to their genius plan?

(Someone with very few books on their shelves.)

 

The Swede rising shows what you think, you can -

When ideas are on fire, put them near a fan.

 

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

This terza rima poem was inspired by the news that Sweden

is importing trash to burn to warm their people's dens.

Technorati Tags: Sweden, Trash, Recycle, Rhyme, Poetry

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