The music of the moment is now Vault by Def Leppard. Makes me want to have big scary 80's metal hair.

More results from the Writer's group poetry exercises...

Write a poem using the following words: boondoggle, designate, mourning, herb, plentiful, and runaway.

My attempts a horticulture have gone awry,
The herb garden a mere boondoggle.
The mint and thyme send up sickly sprouts
The parsley, once plentiful
Invaded and consumed by a rogue band of runaway bunnies.
I designate this a day of mourning,
And decide to stick to a simpler hobby.

Write a poem using the follwing words: merrymake, priceless, vicar, lance, feather, average.

O priceless day beyond compare!
'Tis no average morn.
Vicar, put aside your tomes,
Soldier, lay down lance and horn.
Adorned with feather and ribbon bright
Let us merrymake 'til it be night.

Holy crap, I actually wrote something that rhymed. Granted, it sounds like something from Shakespeare's reject pile, but remember, we only had five or ten minutes to make some sense of the random words we selected (by the tried and true method of opening a dictionary to a page, closing your eyes, and pointing).

And another haiku, this one using the words interpose, plead, and vulgar.

Vulgar words offend
Plead your case to the world, and
I shall interpose

Dorothy Parker, eat your heart out. Not.