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.
 

5 comments:

  1. A verdent stem
    is quite a gem!
    It's vibrant hue,
    when covered with dew,
    looks so green
    it causes a scene!

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    1. Beautiful poem, Flower! Thanks for joining in!! :)

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  2. atop the Stem
    on the leaf, a Gem
    just a tad different Hue---
    Dew
    refracting Green
    & all the other colors of the Scene

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    1. Beautiful! It's almost like cascading rhymes the way you wrote it. :)

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  3. Stand tall skinny stem,
    Think like a gem,
    With sparkling hue,
    Use that dew -
    Reflect your beauty in the green,
    Steal the scene.

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Rhyming or not, I would like a lot to hear the thoughts my words brought...