Finding Poetry

Sometimes you find poetry, sometimes it finds you. I've long loved found poems--Maxine Kumin's "You Are In Bear Country" is a favorite--and I like the way keeping an eye out for them makes me more attentive to finding the unusual in the ordinary.

Using an online dictionary recently I somehow stumbled onto a list of words that rhymed with drumroll. I don't remember how I got there but the rhythms caught my ear and I knew I had a found poem. Here, with a few modifications, originally from merriam-webster.com, is "Rhymes with Drumroll":


Rhymes with DRUMROLL

airhole, armhole, 

bankroll, beadroll, 

bedroll, blackhole,

blackpoll, blowhole, 

borehole, bunghole, 

catchpole, charcoal, 

chuckhole, console, 

Creole, dipole, 

dry hole, Dutch roll, 

egg roll, eyehole, 

field goal, fishbowl, 

flagpole, foxhole, 

funk hole, hard coal, 

half sole, heart-whole, 

hellhole, insole,

in whole, keyhole, 

kneehole, knothole, 

leafroll, logroll, 

loophole, lost soul,

manhole, maypole, 

midsole, Mongol,

outsole,  payroll, 

peephole, pesthole, 

pinhole, pitchpole, 

porthole, posthole, 

pothole, redpoll,

ridgepole, Sheol, 

shot hole, sinkhole, 

ski pole, slipsole, 

snap roll, sound hole, 

spring roll, tadpole, 

taphole, thumbhole, 

top-hole, touchhole, 

washbowl, weep hole,

white hole, wormhole,

drumroll drumroll drumroll.