New Trick Tuesday - Bouts-Rimés

Hello and welcome to New Trick Tuesday!  Every week I will post a new poetry form description and my attempt at it.  I would love your feedback and if you do a poem I would love to see it so please post it in the comments or post a link to your blog post if you put it in your blog.  Happy poeming!  :-)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouts-Rimés

Bouts-Rimés

Bouts-Rimés, literally (from the French) "rhymed-ends", is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison, in the Spectator, as lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list.

The more odd and perplexing the rhymes are, the more ingenuity is required to give a semblance of common-sense to the production.

For instance, the rhyme scheme breeze, elephant, squeeze, pant, scant, please, hope, pope are submitted, and the following stanza is the result:

Escaping from the Indian breeze,

The vast, sententious elephant
Through groves of sandal loves to squeeze
And in their fragrant shade to pant;
Although the shelter there be scant,
The vivid odours soothe and please,
And while he yields to dreams of hope,
Adoring beasts surround their Pope.


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The words I was given for this one were: orange with no rhyme... and "Party hearty grab bacardi"... Ici et mon poem Bouts-Rimés:



SOIREE ELIXIR

with twist of lime or slice of orange
mixed drinks can liven any party
but not weak please make them hearty
plenty of alcohol to grab
but be sure to stock up on Bacardi


THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES! More words given: void, Freud, annoyed, whirl, curl, unemployed, Earl, swirl, anabolic steroid

this is a continuation of "SOIRÉE ELIXIR" ...

many use strong drink to fill the void
with mommy issues to chagrin Dr. Freud
I believe even he would truly be annoyed
as club crawls turn into tipsy tilt-a-whirl
beer to mouth the exercise curl
done too much they end up unemployed
in the trailer park next to Bubba and Earl
leaning over toilets watching the water swirl
they'd get more lift out of anabolic steroids


Another Bouts-Rimés with these words: Truth aloof, pride inside, value palak aloo, vision prison, masturbate procrastinate,

SEEKING OBJECTIVE REASON

in an ideal world our main goal woud be truth
but from honesty and openness we have become aloof
this is all due to a strong sense of unecessary pride
so there is denial of the needs that are inside
when validity has become in media to be of so little of value
all facts and conjecture mixed like ingredients in palak aloo
the information is too much to where is has clouded our vision
the freedom of truth is hidden in lie built prison
and the things we say so self centered as we verbally masturbate
the seeing of reality on hold as we continue to procrastinate

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PERSONAL NOTE ON THE PROCESS...
So since this required external input, I posted a Facebook status to solicit rhyme lists.  One thing for me and ANY rhymed form... half the time *I* come up with the rhyming words 1st and THEN write the poem... so... this was a challenge but not super hard. :-P



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