A Cry For Help and Another Contest!
Friends, I need your help. My next poetry writing entry is Bouts-Rimés. As you well know, this form is when the poet uses rhymes provided by someone else. Here's where you come in: give me a list of 14 rhyming words and I shall compose a poem using the rhymed words from the list I like best.
As an added incentive, whoever provides the winning list (the list that I choose) will get a free copy of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann and a handwritten, signed copy of the poem (which will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars if you happen to still be alive 100 years after I'm dead!)So, friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your rhymes!
Fourteen! Even our English teachers didn't make us work that hard! I'm not certain the following are true rhyming words, but here they are.
ReplyDeleteokay
bombay
no way
today
roadway
croquet
(that's only 6!)
duvet
decay
bluejay
ole'
prepay
bouquet
convey
highway
souffle
dismay
(oops, that's 16...you can strike two)
Pickle
ReplyDeleteTickle
Nickle
Pumpernickel
Icicle
Popsicle
Fudgesicle
Sickle
Prickle
Brickle
Chicle
Bicycle
Tricycle
farcical
And because I can't restrain myself... fart-sicle
Gaffe
ReplyDeleteChaff
Giraffe
Digraph
Carafe
Graph
Behalf
Half
Riffraff
Laugh
Staff
Staph
Distaff
Calf
Veto
ReplyDeleteFrito
Bandito
Neato
Burrito
pinky toe
Tuxedo
Edo
Incognito
Abuelito
Padrecito
Mosquito
Toledo
Fa Sol La Ti Do
Forgive the near-rhyme, I hope. Ito/ido. And, dipping into my non-existent Spanish. I had to work hard on this one.
Paul, don't you want something more like this:
ReplyDeleteA: pickle
B: cove
B: rove
A: prickle
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C: histrionics
D: ginseng
D: I-Ching
C: tonics
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E: bandito
F: distaff
F: gaffe
E: incognito
F: giraffe
E: Fa Sol La Ti Do
I'm going to go ahead and call this contest closed. Between here and Facebook, I have at least 5 amazing lists and find that I cannot choose. So, I shall be writing 5 separate poems, one from every entry. You all win (Christopher, I am going to pick from one of yours.) The poems are forthcoming. Do stay tuned.
ReplyDeleteAw... Only one? I was hoping for at least, you know, like, 3 of them. ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd, I tried to make mine difficult and/or silly, so I wasn't holding my breath. I was just having fun trying to make it difficult.
I realize you've finished but I thought I share my rhymes anyway. Hope you enjoy them.
ReplyDelete1.Grace
2.Face
3.Lace
4.Mace
5.Race
6.Chase
7.Case
8.Ase
9.Trace
10.Base
11.Embrace
12.Vase
13.Pace
14.Place
Yours Truly
Poem Girl
My words remain in your custody. Please, organize and bring them out together - and soon!
ReplyDeleteIt seems I googled Bouts-Rimés too lately for I would surely have included a different set of words.
ReplyDeleteMy ignorance made my list more difficult for you than necessary.
But I do not feel guilty since YOU decided to make poems of ALL the lists...including my goofy offering.
LOL