Because we all want to write more poems.
free rhyme association
Cube.
Cubism
cubicle
We’ll call thee at the cubiculo. Go.
No. Yo ho.
Yo ho ho ho
a pirate’s life for me.
Tree wee pee
spree tea
Tea for two
and me for you
and what a to do
to die today
at a minute or two till two.
Hard to say,
hard to do.
Moo shu
achoo
bless you
bless me
dress me
caress me
tease me
thrill me
but don’t you spill me
My glass is full
of bull
you know how dull
my skull can be.
What’ll I do
when you
are far away
from me and free
what’ll I do?
- Benjamin Gorman's Shared Poems
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Benjamin Gorman
February 4, 2012
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try this
drivel? sure. But drivel can be fun! For a starting point: Go to your favorite online news outlet. Take the digits of your age, sum them, and again as many times as necessary to produce a single digit. Use that number as the ordinal number for which story you pick on the front page (e.g., 5th)-- by any arbitrary selection method. Using the ordinal again, doubled this time, count words from the start of that story; use the first verb or non-proper noun at or after that point. That's your starting word. If you happened to get "orange" or "silver," keep going forward to the next noun or verb. Then do a free association based on rhyme. Go!
Jennifer Dixey
February 4, 2012
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a try at this
48=12=3
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/world/asia/us-plans-a-shift-to-elite-f...
3x2=6
6th word? "down"
down, down, down
frowning clown!
your cover's blown
your truth is known
it is the end
friend, bend the way
you need to bend
to claw your way
away from the fray
today, today, today
haste is the way
taste the way out
the wind is fresh
in the direction
of the exit. so get!
Jennifer Dixey
February 4, 2012
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story content ...
... adds another layer to the challenge. Take the nth word, whatever it is, and write a topical poem that relates to the news story but builds off that word using rhyme. Yikes! I can't imagine trying to write a rhyming poem about a serious news story. That's probably my inexperience with writing rhyme as much as anything else. This was a fun exercise. A stretch! (I was thinking about the topic of the story when I was writing this and ended up associating the whole thing with the idea of the military exit from Afghanistan, hence the theme - if you can really call it that - of getting out. Interesting.)