Bouts-Rimés – A July Challenge
29 06 2012
Throughout July, the month in which we celebrate Bastille Day, I encourage all readers to participate in a little creative challenge. A Bouts-Rimés is an excellent way to engage in creativity and wordplay! Use the list below as your rhymed-ends to create a sixteen line poem.
- tarragon
- found
- paragon
- ground
- own
- umbrella
- phone
- fella
- pain
- joy
- refrain
- toy
- champagne
- fizzles
- mundane
- chisels
Use the reply button to leave your creation. I am sure we will all be amused and delighted.
Blooms bottom to top on wild tarragon
Fragrant flowers on warm dry plains found
These yellow-orange urn shapes certainly no paragon
to the florist’s eye, but across the Shuswap ground
Burning the herb kept mosquitoes away from their own.
Down in Victoria with a yellow umbrella
she strolls down Broad Street tenaciously texting phone.
She’s headed to Pagliacci’s for lunch with a fella,
romance in youth: symphony of lusts, longing and pain.
Much later comes a new awakening, true love, all joy,
you go up, you go down till you learn the refrain.
Deepness of soul, ardent heart never a toy.
Hard work teaching/learning, those nights sipping champagne
results in euphoria, genuine jubilation for both, fizzles
when one flattens the other’s esteem, calls you mundane.
No matter. Look for new totem and take up the chisels.
refrain
entrain
restrain
deplane
les ouiex
a deux
pot au feu
delicieux
le chat
entrelac
scratch my back
shellac
at the beach
ate a peach
felt a bite
scratched all night
with apologies to Earl