Thursday, December 27, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Thank You Notes

 The Pen's Might
by Rachel Hoyt
 
 
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All throughout the land
awkward hands sat lame.
Thank yous tossed bland -
one text, thirty names.
They'd forgotten that
the pen's mightier
than a sword or bat
and can make hearts purr.

All that you need is
nice stationery,
a penmanship whiz,
a mem'ry to query,
ink to suit your style,
a bit of spare time,
strength to write a mile,
or perhaps a rhyme?

cards and notes like mad
and ensured they're linked
to good times they've had
by jotting it down -
that thank you, that tale -
spreading love around
with each piece of mail.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

 
Do you send thank you notes to family and friends?
Digital, snail mail, or, "It depends."?
This lesson I found says it matters how you send.
 

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Terpsichoreacn

Terpsichorean
(terp si KOR ee uhn)
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by africa via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
is a twinkle toed heathen,
or a topsy tervy leaf in
the swirled wind drums beat in.
 
They dance at every whim -
 
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Christmas Cheer

I Saw Cheer
by Rachel Hoyt
 
 
 
Decorations sparkling bright
on a brisk, hiemal night -
A bear sitting hillside although
quite soon it would begin to snow -
A rose garden covered with pine
laid out neatly in a line -
Brought the Christmas spirit to
my heart, my mind, and my soul too.
 
Dogs that ski and chase snowballs -
Shopping craft markets, shunning malls -
Snowflakes sticking to each eyelash -
Strolling along, no need to dash -
Drinking Gluhwein (German mulled wine)
in a city quite far from mine -
I felt Santa within my soul
and in the view - snow covered knoll.
 
When I got home I realized that
Santa is where you see him at:
A group of elves gath'ring for lunch,
A bowl of hot rum party punch,
A Gingerbread Latte to go,
Palm Trees that glisten with fake snow,
no myth - and belief that it glows.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
This rhyme was inspired by my recent vacation
and reindeer news via BoingBong - Christmasy education.
 
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Finnimbrun


Finnimbrun
by Rachel Hoyt
 
 
 
A hand wrapped finnimbrun
is a present some would shun
because it could 'fit' anyone
and was likely bought 'under the gun',
hoping the sentiment would weigh a ton
and shroud a trinket with glamour and fun,
make you the envy of everyone,
for wisely gifting knick-knacks, finnimbrun.
 
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Tinnient

Tinnient
by Rachel Hoyt

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Tinnient sounds
Aren't ones that abound.
Their tings are unique,
Clear, pleasant, chic -
Like sleighbells (So jubilant!) -
Those sounds oh so tinnient.
 
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Survival Pod

My Posh Pod
by Rachel Hoyt



 
The walls would be navy
with sparkles attached
and padded so comfy
that new dreams would hatch
while everything outside
just crumbles and melts
and my smug, non-chapped hide
enjoys petting felt.
If I spent a million
or more to survive,
that saving dominion
would comfort and guide.
No pod pink slip will wear
my name in dry ink
until it can compare
to a human link.
With soft straps to hug me
and knowledge to teach,
my pod 'pop' would be the
dream cash helped me reach.
 
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved
Many are planning and building, hoping they survive
the end of the world... but would you want to be alive?
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Hiemal

Hiemal
(hahy uh muhl)

by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Evgenu Dinev via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
A hiemal night
can be a delight
if the fire is just right
and winter only within sight.

The pale moonlight
makes me glow bright
on a wintry, hiemal night.
 
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Sadness and Spending

Penny Diamond
by Rachel Hoyt
 
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Penny Diamond lives conflicted,
as her name surely implies.
Her moniker predicted
she'd depict all of those lies
advertising has inflicted
on innocent minds, ears, and eyes -
an identity afflicted
by the joy money can buy.

Penny Diamond sees a ring pop
and heads to buy shiny jewelry.
She feels the need to get a mop,
so she calls the cleaning lady.
Penny watches a bunny hop,
then needs something new and furry.
She smells Big E's Bacon Foods Shop
and finds four courses more worthy.

Penny is not too peculiar,
nor a diamond in the rough,
but her name implies she's ruler
of those ignoring bought joy's bluff.
Penny's parent's hoped they'd fool her,
but they too couldn't buy enough
to make poor Penny cooler
and fulfilled by frivolous stuff.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved
 
 
 
so if the season gets you down, while shopping, be pensive.
 
 
 
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Bibelot

Bibelot
(BIB loh)
 
by Rachel Hoyt

image by sippakorn via freedigitalphotos.com
 
You buy a bibelot
not for show,
but because you know,
inside it can stow
memories to make you glow.

Beloved knick-knacks from abroad are bibelots.
 
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Ostriches Are The Other Red Meat

Ostracized Meat
by Rachel Hoyt



Oh ostrich, don't hate me,
but I've had an itch lately
for your feathers and leathers,
but my tastebuds won't teather
that with love for your meat -
lean red meat I won't eat!

Yet ostrich, I'm sorry,
to decorate Safari
I will need your plumes and hide,
Though I desire to sustainably abide...
And I bet if you were truthful,
you would wish to feel more useful.

Oh ostrich, I wish,
you were the main dish,
on some scoundrel's plate
so I could blame your fate
on carnivore's taste
and the need to not waste.

Ostrich, can't you see
unintentionally freed
you from tastebud greed
with onomotopea...
Yet are you thankful we don't eat ya?

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved
 
 
 
Not poultry or game but currently classified the same,
I wonder if we will ever prefer ostrich to turkey?
I think I would rather give up feathers and leathers
than eat the gorgeous birds for whom I wrote these silly words.
 
 
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Esthesia

Esthesia
by Rachel Hoyt

 
is the opposite of anaesthesia -
it's the ability to feel the
pleasures that please ya
and pains that seize ya -

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Judges and Creative Sentencing


Judge Shamus
by Rachel Hoyt
 
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If you dare deface my town,
I will dress you as a clown.
If you steal from the needy,
You'll be temp-tattooed 'Greedy'.
If you ditch cats in the cold,
You'll sleep where there's no stronghold.
I seek an eye for an eye,
Creatively, on the fly.
You may think that I am cruel,
But only you make you a fool.
I just flaunt your foolishness
And shame you with my wittiness.
 
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.
 
 
This poem is about creative judges
who bravely risk reputation smudges
by creatively sentencing to help some learn
in life reputation is something you earn.
 
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Cautelous

Cautelous
(KOH tuh luhs)
 
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by David Castillo Dominici via freedigitalphotos.net
 
One who is cautelous
Sits back watching us,
Hoping not to cause a fuss
While slyly tricking us.
Crafty but cautious -
That's cautelous.
 
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Hair Extensions and Buying Beauty

Strip and Sell Rapunzel
by Rachel Hoyt
 
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Give me your hair!
Mine's so lifeless and dull -
You will look fine bare.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
What can you do?
Few things we want to cull
Grow on top of you.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
It will grow back.
Sans vanity, the skull
Is a shining shack!

Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
This costs a lot.
Your suff'ring I can't mull
While my joy is bought.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved
 
This poem is to help all remember where hair extensions come from
and the message one sends the world every time they buy one.
 
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Izzat

Izzat
(IZ ut)

by Rachel Hoyt

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is not a nut,
but lives in your gut,
in your soul's hut -
to insults it says, "What?!
I'm no stray mutt,
nor ghost of King Tut.
I'm me, like you but
with more honor, izzat."
 
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Sweden Wants to Buy Your Trash

Recycling the Reign
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by hinnamsaisuy via freedigitalphotos.net
 

Poor Mafia. Now Sweden is "the boss" -
The new lion in the trash tree of life,
Gobbling garbage, brewing energy sauce.

In a land where recycling is too rife
They use trash to provide a basic need,
Now the lack of trash is their only strife.
 
On others' overabundance they feed,
Assisting others but mostly themselves,
Though they agree the time will come to cede.
 
Still, who's to say that a man with good elves
Could not put a stop to their genius plan?
(Someone with very few books on their shelves.)
 
The Swede rising shows what you think, you can -
When ideas are on fire, put them near a fan.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved


This terza rima poem was inspired by the news that Sweden
is importing trash to burn to warm their people's dens.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Bunbury

Bunbury
(BUN buh ree)
 
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by sattva via freedigitalphotos.net
 
is your doppleganger, mini me,
that no one, I mean no one can see,
because he or she is imaginary.

Saving bad dates for multiple centuries:
the fearless, fictional bunburies.
 
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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Amazon Kindle Content and Account Access


Pocket Garden
by Rachel Hoyt


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She lost the garden in her pocket -
One which she loved to explore.

She lost the garden in her pocket.
It was not forgotten on some floor.

She lost the garden in her pocket.
The groundskeeper said that she was banned.

She lost the garden in her pocket -
Now her library is a vacant book stand.

She lost the garden in her pocket -
Guts stolen, replaced with pocket lint.

She lost the garden in her pocket -
Canned contract speak her only hints.

She lost the garden in her pocket
But didn't enjoy life by herself.

She lost the garden in her pocket -
So she grew a forest on her shelf.

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved


This chant poem was inspired by news of a woman whose Kindle was wiped
and whom Amazon banned without explanation (because she griped?).

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Flagitious

Flagitious
(fluh JISH uhs)

by Rachel Hoyt
 
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Someone who's flagitious
might flash the religious
befriend the bibulous,
and compile fruits quite frivolous -
be wicked, criminal, ridiculous -
that's being flagitious.
 
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Psychotropics for Kids

Murphyories
by Rachel Hoyt
 
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Murf Murphy, the vintage TV,
from his spot in the foyer could see
ad slogans turn into life mantras
in the lives of Jimmys and Cassandras.
 
He taught me all that he knew
as he knew his days were soon through.
"Don't believe what they say," he said,
"Slogans just brainwash and buy bread."
 
He'd taught me I deserve a break today
and that I can actually have it 'my way',
but that the taste of the new generation
should be good old, "Everything in moderation."
 
'Just what the Dr ordered' is not
found in anything that I ate or bought.
Yet, oatmeal is something to smile about.
Got milk? Smiles are less fun without.
 
The last words he grumbled were, "Say no to drugs."
as he flashed images of famous thugs.
"They can snap, crackle, pop your braincells
with their 'works like a dream' magic spells."
 
"You've come a long way, baby -
thoughts Zestfully clean now, maybe?"
Words, like pills, can have side effects.
I told Murf I knew that (now) when I paid my respects.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved
 
 
This poem was written for the parent of every child
 
 
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Decorticate

Decorticate
(dee KOR tih kayt)

by Rachel Hoyt

image by Michelle Meiklejohn via freedigitalphotos.net


Lizards decorticate
without help or disturbed state,
then they regenerate
that layer they shed to feel great.
 
Sneakily they regulate
their ability to decorticate.
 
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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On David Siegel and Urban Legends

Burp Attack
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Marcus74id via freedigitalphotos.net
 
 
One day, The Ruler of Resorts
Looked out at his empire,
Gazed upon a small, green cohort
Some kids viewed as a squire.

Mac the turtle,
Toppled king Yertle -
With one simple burp,
He fell like a twerp.

The Ruler of Resorts knew stuff,
Which mostly he'd learned online,
And so he Googled, "How to rule tough,"
And made plans to thicken his spine.

Mac the turtle,
Pictured king Yertle,
Plummeting in fear,
Then yelled, "Boo!" in his ear.

The Ruler donned his crown
And gathered the thoughts he'd procured,
Wrote his insanity down
And mailed it before he matured.

Mac the turtle,
Laughed at pseudo-Yertle,
"You know you can't succeed.
I'm the yang to your yin greed!"

Knowing Mac was just a small voice,
Unlikely to sue for plagiarism,
The Ruler of Resorts stole his words by choice
With naive hopes of stopping a schism.

Mac the turtle,
Channelled king Yertle,
To decide what to do -
One burp or two?

Yertle fell quickly, but the Ruler's demise
Came from two distinct lifequakes -
One writer now richer for writing good lies
And staff gone on strike, "For Thought's Sake".
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved

and written in hopes the ending will resemble Dr. Seuss's, "Yertle the Turtle".


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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Wacky Word Wednesday - Clowder

Clowder
(CLOU dur)

by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Vlado via freedigitalphotos.net
 

If you had a clowder,
your life would be louder,
maybe you'd feel prouder...
but please don't feed them chowder.
On feeding dairy to cats, I'm no lauder
and a cluster of cats is a clowder.

No wise one feeds his clowder chowder.
 
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