Saturday, July 16, 2011

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!

10 comments:

  1. 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.

    okay
    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)

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  2. Pickle
    Tickle
    Nickle
    Pumpernickel
    Icicle
    Popsicle
    Fudgesicle
    Sickle
    Prickle
    Brickle
    Chicle
    Bicycle
    Tricycle
    farcical
    And because I can't restrain myself... fart-sicle

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  3. Gaffe
    Chaff
    Giraffe
    Digraph
    Carafe
    Graph
    Behalf
    Half
    Riffraff
    Laugh
    Staff
    Staph
    Distaff
    Calf

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  4. Veto
    Frito
    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.

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  5. Paul, don't you want something more like this:

    A: pickle
    B: cove
    B: rove
    A: prickle
    -
    C: histrionics
    D: ginseng
    D: I-Ching
    C: tonics
    -
    E: bandito
    F: distaff
    F: gaffe
    E: incognito
    F: giraffe
    E: Fa Sol La Ti Do

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  6. 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.

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  7. Aw... Only one? I was hoping for at least, you know, like, 3 of them. ;-)

    And, 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.

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  8. I realize you've finished but I thought I share my rhymes anyway. Hope you enjoy them.
    1.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

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  9. My words remain in your custody. Please, organize and bring them out together - and soon!

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  10. It seems I googled Bouts-Rimés too lately for I would surely have included a different set of words.
    My 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

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