After posting, on November 15, three stanzas by Darby Larson -- three of the more than six quadrillion stanzas that result from arrangements (permutations) of eighteen selected words -- I decided to try my own arranging. Here are two results.
noise is angry morning Arrangement 1
surely hung suppose beads
in windy eyes there's your what
wake-up and the sway
in your eyes there's windy Arrangement 2
what is morning angry sway
wake-up beads hung the noise
surely and suppose
(I put the words on small pieces of paper and arranged. The word most difficult for me to place was "there's." My favorite of the words is "sway." Although my stanzas could "make better sense" if I would add punctuation in selected places, I have decided not to.) This Text Mechanic website offers a permutation-generator for lists of up to seven words. Here are results of applying it to the words in the first line of Arrangement 1:
noise is angry morning
noise is morning angry
noise angry is morning
noise angry morning is
noise morning is angry
noise morning angry is
is noise morning angry
is noise angry morning
is angry morning noise
is angry noise morning
is morning angry noise
is morning noise angry
angry noise is morning
angry noise morning is
angry is noise morning
angry is morning noise
angry morning noise is
angry morning is noise
morning noise angry is
morning noise is angry
morning is angry noise
morning is noise angry
morning angry is noise
morning angry noise is
My favorite of these arrangements is "angry is morning noise." What's yours?
In the same spirit as developing new poems from permutations of words, one may develop permutations of lines. Often the resulting poem is called a cento -- and my postings for 23 October 2011 and 30 October 2011 offer examples. Artist Jody Zellen has developed an ipad/iphone app that generates a sort of cento called a "spine-sonnet" by selecting words from book titles in fields of art and architecture. Information about this app and sample spine-sonnets are available here.
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