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
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Permutations and Centos
A Cento is a collage poem made of lines taken from other poems -- such as a sonnet composed of lines from fourteen of Millay's sonnets, or Shakespeare's -- or from newspaper articles or television advertisements or whatever. Here's a three-line sample from a Cento, "Patchwork," composed by Joanna Migdal to celebrate women poets.
I dwell in Possibility. (Emily Dickinson, #657)
Yes, for that most of all. (Denise Levertov, “The Secret”)
It’s four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem.
(Phyllis McGinley, “Public Journal”)
I dwell in Possibility. (Emily Dickinson, #657)
Yes, for that most of all. (Denise Levertov, “The Secret”)
It’s four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem.
(Phyllis McGinley, “Public Journal”)
Monday, May 16, 2011
Which is the BEST order?
At Bartleby.com, we find a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) which says, in part " ... poetry—the best words in their best order."
Consider the two orderings of the words "were" and "we." (To choose which is best is not possible until we know more of what the writer wishes to say.)
We were!
Were we?
Consider the two orderings of the words "were" and "we." (To choose which is best is not possible until we know more of what the writer wishes to say.)
We were!
Were we?
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