Friday Fun Day - Crambo aka Bouts Rimés - Scooting

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?

 

Shelly Seuss of Los Caped Barbarinos

Zoom

Scoot

Dream

Gloom

Moot

Steam

 

Above are the words.

Get writing rhyme nerds!

 

There will be no winner. This is just for fun

and the joy of spreading smiles somewhere to someone.

The Making of Los Caped Barbarinos

Shelly Seuss and Flying Flower

by Rachel Hoyt

I was running down a dream

when a new one flew to me:

a scooter gang making a scene

with capes flapping wild and free -

We smile at the joy and laughter around

(whether it flies with or at us)

and seek to enhance that which surrounds

the heaven where two wheels took us.

I whispered out my dream

to a flower flying by -

It echoed like a scream,

shot my dream across the sky -

"Shelly Seuss shall ride," said the stars,

"and she will wear a cape -

With Flying Flower you'll surprise cars

and make bystanders gape."

Now we scoot down our dream

following its scent beyond the breeze,

attempting to emit a glee beam,

while giving the world a cape tease.

© 2013 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 

 

Technorati Tags: Scooter, Gang, Group, Poem, Rhyme, Poetry

 

 

A new scooter gang is forming in SB

which aims to fill the town with silly glee...


(Sorry that the video quality is a bit lacking.
We are happy to accept any extra GoPros you're packing.)
 

 

Flying Flower flying...

 

 

 

Shelly Seuss learns to fly...

 

Wacky Word Wednesday - Doyenne

Doyenne

(doi en)

by Rachel Hoyt

 

image by Ambro via freedigitalphotos.net

You wouldn't use 'doyenne'

To describe important men,

Just  the highest ranked women,

Queens of the crop - doyennes.

 

© 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, Doyenne, Poetry