#3 (The Possimpible)

I have decided that I need to learn how to master the possimpible. You may be asking yourself right now what the "possimpible" is, having never heard the term before. This term comes from Barney Stinson, a character on one of my favorite tv shows, How I Met Your Mother. He invents the term "possimpible" for his video resume, which details how awesome he truly is. He creates this word because he claims to transcend both the possible and impossible, which creates the possimpible. As he teaches one of the other characters how to make an equally awesome video resume, he explains that inventing words is a key way to getting hired. I'm not sure if this would work in real life during a job search, but it did get me thinking about word choice in poetry. We have been working this week with villanelles, which is a form in which word choice is key because of the rhyming structure. As we did the exercise in class in which we created rhymes for one word, I discovered just how difficult it can be to choose a word that fits the requirements of both rhyming and logical sense. When putting together rhymes for a villanelle, one of the greatest challenges is to avoid sounding cheesy. Straight rhymes on simple, one syllable words often create a sing song effect that should only be heard in Kindergarten. However, I think, upon mastering the rhyme structure of a villanelle, that this could be a very powerful form. I need to keep practicing branching away from the simple rhymes into more complex slanted rhymes. I also know that we often create new words in poetry, and I think some interesting combinations can be used to help the rhymes along in a villanelle. Once the rhymes have mastered, I think I can claim to have truly mastered the possimipible.