Day 13
Prompt: play
with rhyme. Start by creating a word bank of 10 simple words of one or two
syllables. Five should correspond to each of the five senses (i.e., one word
that is a thing you can see, one word that is a type of sound, one word that is
a thing you can taste, etc). Three should be concrete nouns and the last two
should be verbs. Now, come up with rhymes for each of your 10 words. Use as
much sound play in your poem as possible.
The words:
Sea, shush, salt,
sad, heat, sand, surf, cliff, leap, dive
The rhymes:
Sea, me, bee,
fee, we
Shush, blush,
mush, such, gush, hush, lush, plush, rush,
Salt, fault,
caught, halt, naught, taught, vault
Sad, mad,
bad, cad, fad, glad, had, lad, rad, tad,
Heat, seat,
meet, teet, beat, feat, neat, wheat
Sand, hand,
band, land, rand, wand,
Surf, turf,
birth, worth, dearth,
Cliff, miff,
biff, fifth, riff, stiff, tiff,
Leap, deep,
heap, reap, seep, weap
Dive, five, hive,
jive, live, vive, wife
Flow, glow,
mow, sow, bow, how, low, now, plow, row, tow, vow, wow
Sea sounds
Be the sea
and me, we weave full-flow,
this gush so
lush, this hushed rush and glow.
Sweeping our hands
in sand, on land we sow,
this leap so
deep, we will not weep and bow.
Will you
jive, hi-five, just live or borrow
a tiff with the
wife, strum a riff too shallow.
Here the salt
once caught halts a no-fault vow,
greet the
heat’s hot beat, treat a neat rain shadow.
Beside this lad so rad, we’ll wade no sorrow,
this deep
leap keep so no echo seeps tomorrow.
Copyright
Vickie Johnstone, April 13, 2024