Thursday, April 30, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #30 - unk

Brainstorming words: bunk, junk, dunk, funk, gunk, hunk, monk, punk, clunk, sunk, stunk, skunk,

More words from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/unk/:  chipmunk, spelunk, kerplunk, shrunk, trunk, debunk

Did you see the skunk
Chasing the chipmunk?

We must clean the junk
Out of the old trunk.

The ghost hunters are in a funk
Their hauntings have been debunk(ed).

Would you like to spelunk
In a cave full of gunk?

The cave stunk
Because of the skunk.

Into the lake, the stone went kerplunk
Down to the bottom, it quickly sunk.

I added a poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.


Wednesday, April 29, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #29 - ump

Brainstorming Words:  bump, dump, lump, jump, clump, rump, sump, trump, slump, chump, hump, stump

More words from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ump/:  grump,

Don't bump
the grump!

I'm in a poem slump
My brain feels like a lump.

The camel has a hump
But he can not jump.

He can really jump
He's over his slump.

I added a poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.

One more day to rhyme
Until next year's poem time.

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #28 - ug

The first thing that comes to my mind is…
I'm as snug
as a bug
In a rug.

That would be really much quicker than normal.  I will try some more but still might like that one the best.

Word Brainstorming:  bug, rug, snug, hug, pug, dug, jug, mug, tug, chug, thug
http://www.clker.com/clipart-3332.html



There is a ladybug
In my coffee mug!

More words from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ug/:  litterbug, spark plug, shutterbug, shrug, fireplug

Give the Earth a hug
Don't be a litterbug!

The mower needs a spark plug
It will not chug - only shrug.

Pour some tea in my mug
From the great big brown jug.

http://www.clker.com/clipart-pug.html

The little black pug
Gave the rug a tug.

The little dog dug
a hole in the rug.

Give that pug
A big hug.



I added a poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.












Monday, April 27, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #27 - ore

Word Brainstorm:  store, bore, more, sore, chore, shore, gore, door, core, lore, poor/pore, roar, tore, wore, yore

More words from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ore/:  adore, deplore, evermore, folklore, herbivore, carnivore, lakeshore, snore, score

Rhyming:

Rhyming Tercet:
Eats grass - herbivore
Eats meat - carnivore
Eats both - omnivore!

I adore
The seashore.
(not really - but it rhymes!)

I read folklore
By the lakeshore.

She does deplore
His loud snore.

I need a new door
Let's go to the store.

She tore
Out out the door.

What's the score?
Who has more?

I added the folklore poem and the rhyming tercet to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.




Sunday, April 26, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #26 - op

Brainstorming Words:  chop, bop, drop, glop, hop, lop, mop, pop, sop, top, stop, flop,

More Words from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/op/:  blacktop, barbershop, bookshop, bloghop, countertop, gumdrop, lollipop, hilltop, slop, workshop

Rhyming Work:

I walked to the barbershop
On the mountain hilltop.

Get a mop
This puddle must stop!

Do you want a sweet gumdrop
Or a lemon lollipop?

Water balloon drop
Hot blacktop
POP!

I must stop
At a bookshop!


This is my latest  bookshop purchase.  We celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day at the end of May to inspire the students during the last days of school.

I  added the bookshop poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #25 - oke

Brainstorming Words:  joke, yoke/yolk, bloke, okey-doke, soak, stoke, woke, awoke,

Eek!  This is a hard one.

Looking for more words at http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/oke/:  artichoke, backstroke, broke, choke, Coke, housebroke, evoke, keystroke, poke, slowpoke

Rhyming Thoughts:

Don't choke
On the artichoke.

http://www.clker.com/clipart-2445.html



The sleeping baby awoke.
It was not a funny joke.


Don't be a slowpoke
Doing the backstroke.

Each keystroke
An action will evoke.

Early she awoke
To let out the dog - not housebroke!



I  added a poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.

Friday, April 24, 2015

April Poetry Challenge #24 - ock

I just like to say this sound!  It makes me think of the nursery rhyme:
Hickory, dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock!

Brainstorming Words:  clock, dock, wok/walk, chalk, glock, rock, stock, sock, lock, mock, hock, jock, knock, tock/talk, flock, block,

Add the chicken stock
To the heated wok.

Many birds is a flock
Many steps is a walk.

The tick and the tock
Are the talk of a clock.

Is it soft like a sock
Or hard like a rock?

I almost didn't check for multi syllable words today but look at these gems from http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ock/:  hollyhock, peacock, shamrock, sherlock

http://www.clker.com/clipart-26076.html


The beautiful peacock
Admired the hollyhock.



ww.clker.com

We need a sherlock
To find the missing sock!








I  added a poem to the comments on Mary's blog, Poems of Silliness.