Poetry exercise
Apr. 15th, 2003 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaneramosI saw this exercise somewhere recently, on LJ I think. My apologies to whoever, I can't remember who suggested it, and I'm new around here. You take prose fragments from your friends' journals and put them together to create a poem.
It was an interesting exercise. I like the feel of this, a little more sinister than I normally write.
But I didn't choose enough fragments with verbs. That's an interesting lesson in itself. Here's what I came up with.
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Spectre of debt
a guy with a big knife
(not part of the crew)
measured the plot
to diagnose the problem
an intermittent break in the circuit
suddenly in a dark alcove
the numbers tell me otherwise
huge, dripping trees
ready to sleep for a week
~~~~
It was an interesting exercise. I like the feel of this, a little more sinister than I normally write.
But I didn't choose enough fragments with verbs. That's an interesting lesson in itself. Here's what I came up with.
~~~~
Spectre of debt
a guy with a big knife
(not part of the crew)
measured the plot
to diagnose the problem
an intermittent break in the circuit
suddenly in a dark alcove
the numbers tell me otherwise
huge, dripping trees
ready to sleep for a week
~~~~
