In school I have to study a book called The Roar On The Other Side, it's a really fun book, and every other week I have to pick a project to do. In this week I picked a project called BRIC-A-BRAC WORDS. In this you have to get the dictionary(we used The American Heritage Dictionary) and randomly pick a word that sounds interesting to you, not paying any attention to the meaning. You then collect 10 to 12 words and apply them to a poem that is 8 to 12 lines, we tried it and this is what we came up with:

An Imaginary Circus and What Happened There

The Arabesque Acrobats pirouetted perspicuously across the stage.
The cockerspaniel decided to wear knickerbockers to the circus.
A volcano spit Vespertinal Rocks, hitting the Circus Director on the head.
Flinkites stopped mid-air.
Sloganeer snakes slithered across the ring.
A Sloganeer pounced upon a niggling mouse.
The Cartulary collapsed.
The Lassitude Lassoers lassoed a loose tooth.
Glockenspiel gave a sigh of relief when all was calm again.

If you find this interesting, and would like to know how to do this with your own family or with a group, here is my procedure: Pick someone to go first (no arguing, please) then have them randomly pick a interesting (and perferably long) word that seems to go well with the theme that you picked. (We picked a circus) You then write it down. After this is finished, give the dictionary to the person on their right and have them repeat the procedure. After you have the desired amount of words, go to the person who picked a word second and ask them to make a sentence using the word that the first person picked. Keep this up, asking each person in turn to make a sentence with the word that the person before them had picked. Put them together make a poem, and it is finished!

I highly reccomend this book!

Sir Richard