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Spark Your Creativity #11 (Bouts Rimes Challenge)

[MsJacquiiC]

Good day Poetic Peoples - I've thought to put together a sort of different "word" challenge. The challenge is based from an actually poetic form called the Bouts Remay. It's actually a very interesting "social" poetic form from the French.


Quoted From: Poetry-Defined - Bouts Rimes - Forms

The Following Text Is Quoted:

The BOUT-RIMÉS -- Pronounced boo-re-MAY -- is French for "rhymed ends" and was created as a "chain-poem" of sorts. A list of words is written down by one person and passed on to the next person who in-turn writes a poem, using the words in the same exact order the 1st person has written them in...

The form is attributed to 17-century Poet named Dulot. Actually in 1864 Alexandre Dumas invited all the poets of France to fill in the lines for a set of selected rhymes. The next year he published the resulting 350 poems by just as many poets. All poets had used the same exact rhymes.

There is no set syllable count for the Bouts-Rimés. Only the particular words listed must be used in the exact order presented, the rest is at the descretion of the poet.

Challenge:
The challenge is to use the following wordlist in the posted order to create a poem of sixteen total lines. Each of the following words MUST be used as the end-word of each line as ordered below.

Exceptions:

1. The poem doesn't have to consist of 4 4-line stanzas, but can consist of different-lengthed stanzas (or 1 16-line stanza for that matter) as long as each end-word is used in the order presented below.
2. The end-words may be altered by either making a noun into a verb, making a verb into a noun, making a verb past and/or present tense, making a singular noun into a plural one, etc... --- end-words must rhyme.

Simple challenge really. Should be a lot of fun to see the different styles and unique poems we get from the list below.

Have fun and enjoy this Bouts Rimes Challenge AND Happy posting!

The List:

• famed
• quenched
• tamed
• lynched
  
  
• own
• quail
• phone
• sail
  
  
• roamed
• pale
• tome
• grail
  
  
• reign
• stench
• pain
• fenced

[erikestabrook]

My first post to this hard but nice challenge

Fenced


Above the famed,
my fingers clenche on you, my thirst won't be quenced,
who needs you tamed?
I'd rather trust my instincts and be lynched,

I want you on my own,
you're not fat-breasted like a quail,
such a distinct tone on my phone,
you're the wind in my sail,

The further from home we roamed,
the less we needed our things, pail,
leaving the light-hearted tome,
after my hearts grail,

truth can reign,
but who would like the stench,
we're alone in pain,
because the whole Earth is fenced.

[nomadicrhymer]

This is fabulous Erik!!! Don't know what the heck you're talking about...definitely a keeper!

All I can say is
(well you know I can go on and on and on, but we won't go there! lol)

Nomad

[erikestabrook]

cool very good,
didn't thinkl anyone would like it

[MsJacquiiC]

The Following Text Is Quoted:

truth can reign,
but who would like the stench,
we're alone in pain,
because the whole Earth is fenced.

ERIK - nice reply... Answer to the quoted above: Sometimes I like stinky thangs

Jacquii.

[Lindamay]

Whoa! This just wasn't very easy at all! I really had to think about htis one, but here it is ... trying to make sense from the words was the toughest!

My life has was filled with imaginary fame
I thought my thirst for love's was quenched,
But when he thought he had me tamed
The law stepped in and he was lynched.

I sit inside this house we called our own
Through the trees I can see the quail,
I'm happy I can no longer hear the phone
It felt good to throw it and watch it sail.

Upon my horse our land I roamed
I needed some sun on my skin so pale,
My life he'd carried in his own tome
But it wasn't like the Holy grail.

The terror he caused he'd no longer reign
His love had become an unbearable stench,
No longer would I have to live in pain
My sanity, my life itself I have finally fenced.

[erikestabrook]

msJ yeah I guess stinky truth is better than stinky lies,

good post Linda May
you made sense of the words pretty well

[MsJacquiiC]

AWESOME write LINDAMAY - very eloquently stated!
I think this challenge is gonna be a HUGE success!
Two totally different poems. Two totally different ideas.
One list of words! Very nice Poetic Peoples!

Jacquii.

[nomadicrhymer]

Great job Lindamay!! I have to do mine now...you guys are way too fast for me!

Nomad