Thursday, November 29, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - On Sadness and Spending

Penny Diamond
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by ponsulak via freedigitalphotos.net
 
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.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.


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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 -

© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thursday Thoughts - Judges and Creative Sentencing


Judge Shamus
by Rachel Hoyt
 
image by Salvatore Vuono via freedigitalphotos.net
 
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.
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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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."
 
© 2012 Rachel Hoyt. All rights reserved.

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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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