Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Bunbury

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?

 

Here's a photo I took of a little shelled friend I visit sometimes when my thoughts need to bend.  Use it with your poem if you like or tell us of your 'friend' who causes creative spikes.

 

 

 

Bunbury

Imaginary

Fantasy

Audacity

Traveling

Unraveling

Memory

Trajectory

 

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

There will be no winner.  This is just for fun.
If you will, rhyme a smile here for everyone.

Thursday Thoughts - Smart Phone Apps and Technological Advances

The Workey Jerkey

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Victor Habbick via freedigitalphotos.net

You put a gadget in,

You pull part of a job out,

You put a gadget in,

Then you shake the gigs about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put some software in,

You pull more humans out,

You put more software in,

Crunch and shake brain cells about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

You put a robot in,

You take multiple jobs out,

You put a robot in,

The economy swings about -

You do the Workey Jerkey

As the world spins round and round -

That's what work's all about!

 

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

We can't be inconvenienced to diagnose our ills,

And desire same day delivery to increase our shopping thrills,

Then wonder why we have no money to pay the bills.

How do we expect to fix the recession

if robots are required for our world's progression?

 

 

Technorati Tags: Robot, Jobs, jobs, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

Wacky Word Wednesday - Effrontery

Effrontery

(eff rhunt er ee)

 

by Rachel Hoyt

 

 

photo by imagerymagestic via freedigitalphotos.net

 

An act of effrontery

Has ample audacity,

Resembles skulduggery,

Is often perfunctory,

And does not intentionally

Inhibit your joy selfishly -

Effrontery.

 

© 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, Effrontery, Poetry