[New-Poetry] Poem With Common Words

TheOldMole Opus40-01 at opus40.org
Sat Dec 1 16:23:11 EST 2007


So let's do it. Give a set of words, and see what we can come up with.

JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> There are some poetry contests that limit submission to under 40 lines 
> or some other arbitrary constraint in terms of length, but someone 
> should organize a poetry contest arourd using a random set of 
> words. Could be fun.
> What happened to Olaf? I was starting to get into his head.
> Finnegan
>  
>  message dated 11/30/2007 9:03:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> cervantes.james at gmail.com writes:
>
>     langpo version:
>
>     world life
>     day week year
>     man woman part
>     child problem case
>     work place thing
>     eye time hand point way
>     person number group
>     government company fact
>
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