I thought I'd heard of this sort of thing before
see
Steve Sneyd's article
THE NUMBER OF LANGUAGE - writing poetry the OULIPO Way
http://www.nhi.clara.net/z29.htm
where he talks about
VOCABULARY CLEPT POMES are achieved by writing a poem, then giving another
poet a list of the words you have used. That person then writes a new poem
using only those words.
and
PIED POETRY involves rearranging all the words of a poem to achieve a new
one (the rules permit varying punctuation and capitalization)
yours
Gerald
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From: "Christina Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] Another bonkers idea
> Hello again, SallyE, Gar, Arthur and anyone else interested in playing.
> Gar, I don't think we need to use all the words: just extract whichever
ones
> ring a bell with us. What we can't do is add any of our own words but we
can
> use a word which may be used in one way in the original poem in another
way:
> a noun as a verb (stroke/stroke sort of thing).
> I've been tinkering with a poem this afternoon. Here are the words. The
> poem uses some words several times and I think we'll allow our exercise to
do the
> same. Does anyone know which poem this is? I'm not suggesting that we
use
> it: it's just an example. They're not properly sorted out yet but it'll
give
> you an idea.
> Shall we play?
> bw
> christina
>
> I, she, he, we, her, him, me, my, our,
>
> am, are, bear, be, comfort, care, come, can, does, face, free, gives,
have,
> hear, is, I'll, look, lap, live, learn, love, like, lean, may, pointing,
> rising, receive, rejoice, stroke, sitting, say, shall, saying, space,
stand,
> will, vanish,
>
> bore, began, did, kissed, learned, put, taught, took,
>
> a, an, the, these, his, that, this,
>
> and, as, but, if,
>
> before, down, away, from, in, on, underneath, upon, out, there,
>
> for, O, of, to, thus, till, then, when,
>
> angel, boy, beasts, beams, bodies, cloud, day, child, comfort, earth,
> flowers, grove, God, heat, hair, light, lap, space, lambs, mother, men,
morning,
> noonday, East, joy, knee, stroke, soul, sun, souls, shade, tree, trees,
tent,
>
> bereaved, black, English, golden, round, sunburnt, lean, east, father's,
> little, light, morning, noonday, southern, silver, shady, wild, white,
voice,
>
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