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What Rhymes With Discombobulated

WHAT RHYMES WITH DISCOMBOBULATED

I cannot find a word to rhyme with "Opus"
to try and do so is incredibly hopeless.
Even using words like "Door-hinge"
is cheating in rhyming it with "Orange."

No rhyme for "Purple" nor for "Ninth"
and it's too bad the word's not, "Pinth".
"Wolf" and "Month" will bring you sighs,
and who thought "Marathon" was wise?

A word like "Dangerous" is quite impetuous,
this word in rhyme is more than treacherous. 
Then to set your teeth on edge,
"Angst" will jump you from your ledge.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
but, did ever Shakespeare, "Chaos" meet?
If "bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own"
did Dylan Thomas rhyme "Silver" with a word that is well known?

Words that will not rhyme in English,
we positively must extinguish.
If not, then poetry will go, god knows,
and we'll be left with free verse and merely prose.

Edlynn Nau
March 12, 2015

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Jan Terry Date: 2/12/2016 7:50:00 PM Egads! Only free verse and prose? What is a rhyming poet to do? Been there too many times: the perfect line but nothing rhymes. If I turn my line inside out, perhaps l'll go roundabout to reach the very same conclusion but add a measure of confusion and so on... I can get carried away at times but back to your humorous poem: I think it's great. Love the mention of Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas: it lends respectability to the fun. You keep me laughing. Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 2/12/2016 8:31:00 PM OH GOOD! You can relate! Loved your little rhyme on rhyming. It is a challenge! I'm glad you could laugh with me! I'm posting a light poem in about 30 min called: "EVERY BODY WRITES A BOOK". Short, quick, playful & tongue-in-cheek. The idea came here. I've had poets tell me "Poetry is out"! "Can't publish it, can't sell it; so everybody writes a book"! I no neighbors, teens, children, groups, that ALL publishing books online. This is to poke fun! I'm glad you enjoyed this one!

Paul Callus Date: 11/22/2015 11:07:00 AM Some words are to be avoided at all costs! Even stretching the imagination does not yield satisfactory results. I believe that there is always an easy solution once we are prepared to compromise on simple changes to the text. I too find Italian easy to rhyme; same applies to Maltese. This poem might be 'light' but it is great fodder for a blog! ` Regards // paul Login to Reply Paul Callus Date: 11/23/2015 11:25:00 AM If I'm not mistaken, you need to eat gluten-free food. Edlynn Nau Date: 11/22/2015 9:55:00 PM HA! Thanks Paul! I need to catch up with all of you! I shall be reading more than writing for awhile. I had a migraine that never left for 7 or 8 days. Now I'm to be tested for Cilliac's Disease. I got a shot and am much better. The holidays will find me in SF at my daughter's. I never thought of this poem as a blog but yes...we could be writing about what we can't write about! We can write about the words that will not set up and do tricks for us. This was just for play!

CayCay Jennings Date: 9/3/2015 10:51:00 PM Love it, love it, love it. Did I tell you I love this poem? ... CayCay Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 9/4/2015 1:19:00 AM CayCay: I like your idea of just reading through one poets work! I think I spread myself too thin trying to read those that don't get read much and always try & hit THE NEVER READ folder. I might try your approach. I might only get one Poet but get their body of work. I'd probably only read their newest 18 poems though & go to the next poet (some post 10 a day). Thank you for reading what I want to share. I don't post everything! I created a genre they don't have so can't post those! My silly poems are ALWAYS warm-ups before I get down to really working! This came about b/c I kept hitting those darn words that wouldn't rhyme and then started making lists of the one's to avoid! Those lists generated this little ditty! Thank you CayCay!

Ian Jones Date: 8/14/2015 11:18:00 PM Made me smile. The hours spent scratching my head and the resultant hair loss stubbornly refusing to give in. I become totally dysprungdobulated. Tee hee. Kind regards, Ian Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 8/14/2015 11:44:00 PM Right there with you Ian! Drives us nuts...right?

Jan Allison Date: 8/14/2015 3:18:00 PM Very clever love the humour here and yes there are certain words I would steer clear of to avoid trying to make something rhyme:-) hugs jan xx 7 Login to Reply Edlynn Nau Date: 8/14/2015 4:27:00 PM Ha ha ha! Yes, this was just stretching the brain cells before getting to work and because it always limits our pallet with those non-rhymers! I find myself moving to French when I'm stuck and Itallian is incredibly easy to rhyme. We have it tough and then I often think of Asian languages that use hieroglyphs . Whatever do their poems look like? Curiouser and curiouser !