I love this as a poetic game -- it's imaginative, and it meets the
challenge.But it does kinda show the limitations of modifiers. I do like
succinctly
alone
Janet Jackson wrote:
>> Getting rid of nouns and writing a whole poem that depends on adverbs as
>> much as most poems depend on nouns would be an interesting exercise,
>>
>
> ok, here goes... no nouns or verbs allowed...
>
>
> awkwardly
> tentative
>
> confidently
> passionate
>
> vigorously
> brazen
>
> somehow
> stinky
>
> angrily
> numb
>
> succinctly
> alone
>
>
> Is this sentimental? yeah, I think it is. Sneeringly sentimental,
> and trying to be clever for the sake of it. (I can say that, I wrote it.)
> Originally I used only adverbs but decided adjectives were necessary
> to make it a poem at all. I had no desire to add nouns, but verbs
> kept trying to creep in masquerading as adjectives (eg 'broken' 'swallowed').
> It is extremely abstract. I don't like it at all.
> Nouns may be optional, but perhaps we can't write well without verbs.
>
> Janet
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> The songbird in its cage
> Sings not for joy, but rage!
> --Italian proverb
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