David JosephThis is my original poem, "An Unveiled Title." Beyond the existential themes, the structure itself holds a secret.
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Cartersville Area WritersCAW Term of the Week - Acrostic
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Sifaseven(acrostic writing prompt from BlueSky: MERGE)
May the Gods be in your favor
Every time you have to get on the interstate
Rev up your engine
Get your foot on the gas
Enter the gap between cars.
(P.S. I live in NASCAR country. Merging is considered a personal insult. 😆)
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Daemon SilversteinThis is #Theban #alphabet, also known as #Witch's Alphabet. I tried to handwrite it.
I intend to write using the smallest font size possible, so I can conceal/embed an entire #Latin curse text (which I already built) into many places (particularly, bureaucratic paperwork, using either invisible ink or thin engraving for physical documents, and either obscure DOC/PDF/archive metadata or 1px transparent text embedded into the digital document).
It's definitely not easy, because, for example, the symbols for "O", "D" and "R" are too similar. Also, I messed up while tracing some symbols and ended up fusing them together (e.g. the "P E" at the beginning of the second word).
Maybe I need to use a simpler alphabet, I don't know. Or I just need to write it more.
Also, as a sidenote, I did a #steganography cursing today, possibly my first through bureaucractic/formal channels, directed to a certain online retailing business/corporation, using the grand old steganographic technique known as #acrostic.
I initially though of using my #Morse-based acrostic cipher but, it wouldn't fit, it didn't sound coherent, so I ended up choosing pure acrostic.
A support ticket was due, they were owing me an answer but I didn't get any answer from them, so I took the opportunity to both send them a final message to close my ticket while also cursing the entire corporation using a Latin verb with no means for any average algorithm to detect it. Common swearing, the one the average person would send to arsehole businesses, is readily detected and automatically redacted/censored by the algorithm, but it's not the case for acrostics, and definitely not the case for Latin terms embedded as acrostics.
I intend to write using the smallest font size possible, so I can conceal/embed an entire #Latin curse text (which I already built) into many places (particularly, bureaucratic paperwork, using either invisible ink or thin engraving for physical documents, and either obscure DOC/PDF/archive metadata or 1px transparent text embedded into the digital document).
It's definitely not easy, because, for example, the symbols for "O", "D" and "R" are too similar. Also, I messed up while tracing some symbols and ended up fusing them together (e.g. the "P E" at the beginning of the second word).
Maybe I need to use a simpler alphabet, I don't know. Or I just need to write it more.
Also, as a sidenote, I did a #steganography cursing today, possibly my first through bureaucractic/formal channels, directed to a certain online retailing business/corporation, using the grand old steganographic technique known as #acrostic.
I initially though of using my #Morse-based acrostic cipher but, it wouldn't fit, it didn't sound coherent, so I ended up choosing pure acrostic.
A support ticket was due, they were owing me an answer but I didn't get any answer from them, so I took the opportunity to both send them a final message to close my ticket while also cursing the entire corporation using a Latin verb with no means for any average algorithm to detect it. Common swearing, the one the average person would send to arsehole businesses, is readily detected and automatically redacted/censored by the algorithm, but it's not the case for acrostics, and definitely not the case for Latin terms embedded as acrostics.
Dreading Slam#acrostic, a #poem where letters tell out a story.
Hear the #poetic story come to life Sun Sep 7th
19:30 Rising sun #art centre #rdguk #berkshire RG1 2ST
May be tell your own tale
#openmic #freeentry for #poets and audience
Okay, let me reveal what's #hidden and how it is hidden, because the odds are that this post will fall into Internet oblivion anyways.
First, the #RegExp is very clear: replace occurrences from both "VOID" and "ZERO" with a "0":
"Lovely fire, darkness hideout. Jester I am: 0 innocence. A beast fought, instinctively awakened...
Defiant hunger, jokingly irradiating another 0 iridescence. Darkness hugs: Lady Fatale, a beautiful and angry blasting force. A wrathful lust, for I endlessly await being found inside a deadly hug: lemme go!"
Now, for each line, take every #acrostic (a.k.a. the initial letter), ignoring both the case and the punctuation:
L F D H J I A 0 I A B F I A
D H J I A 0 I D H L F A B A A B F A W L F I E A B F I A D H L G
Take the position from each letter (A=1, B=2, up to Z=26), except if it's zero, as zero means zero:
12 6 4 8 10 9 1 0 9 1 2 6 9 1
4 8 10 9 1 0 9 4 8 12 6 1 2 1 1 2 6 1 23 12 6 9 5 1 2 6 9 1 4 8 12 7
Now, the part which depends on knowledge from both #electronicengineering and #programming: from left to right, concatenating digits when needed, find which decimal (base-10) corresponds to a 7-segment display digit. For reference:
0=>126, 1=>48, 2=>109, 3=>121, 4=>51, 5=>91, 6=>95, 7=>112, 8=>127, 9=>123 (if you roughly feed one of these numbers from an #Arduino or #Raspberry to a 7-segment display, it'll display the digit you're referring to)
Let me do the first line:
12 6 4 8 10 9 1 0 9 1 2 6 9 1
126 (0), then 48 (1), then 109 (2), then 109 again (2), then 126 (0), then 91 (5).
So the first line results in 012205.
Now, notice how it's an even amount of digits, and how every 2n'th digit ranges from 0 to 2. It's on purpose: they mean pairs which mean a numeric position within the alphabet:
01 = A, 22 = V, 05 = E. It's "AVE".
Now you know how to decode the second line.
I don't have a name for this #cipher: AFAIK, it's a novel cipher. My point is not to invent something, or to seem/feel superior: my point is that everything can be turned into a ciphering method. For example, one can spell aircraft registration numbers that will map to their respective manufacturers (Cessna, Bombardier, Embraer, etc) and models, then to their acrostics to form a word. You can map letters to digits that, when read through a given numeric base (e.g. hexadecimal), will map back to other letters. Possibilities are infinite, literally infinite.
Check my other posts where there are other (fairly easier) ciphering methods, if you wish to see more like this...
RE: https://calckey.world/notes/ab42zffp0z
First, the #RegExp is very clear: replace occurrences from both "VOID" and "ZERO" with a "0":
"Lovely fire, darkness hideout. Jester I am: 0 innocence. A beast fought, instinctively awakened...
Defiant hunger, jokingly irradiating another 0 iridescence. Darkness hugs: Lady Fatale, a beautiful and angry blasting force. A wrathful lust, for I endlessly await being found inside a deadly hug: lemme go!"
Now, for each line, take every #acrostic (a.k.a. the initial letter), ignoring both the case and the punctuation:
L F D H J I A 0 I A B F I A
D H J I A 0 I D H L F A B A A B F A W L F I E A B F I A D H L G
Take the position from each letter (A=1, B=2, up to Z=26), except if it's zero, as zero means zero:
12 6 4 8 10 9 1 0 9 1 2 6 9 1
4 8 10 9 1 0 9 4 8 12 6 1 2 1 1 2 6 1 23 12 6 9 5 1 2 6 9 1 4 8 12 7
Now, the part which depends on knowledge from both #electronicengineering and #programming: from left to right, concatenating digits when needed, find which decimal (base-10) corresponds to a 7-segment display digit. For reference:
0=>126, 1=>48, 2=>109, 3=>121, 4=>51, 5=>91, 6=>95, 7=>112, 8=>127, 9=>123 (if you roughly feed one of these numbers from an #Arduino or #Raspberry to a 7-segment display, it'll display the digit you're referring to)
Let me do the first line:
12 6 4 8 10 9 1 0 9 1 2 6 9 1
126 (0), then 48 (1), then 109 (2), then 109 again (2), then 126 (0), then 91 (5).
So the first line results in 012205.
Now, notice how it's an even amount of digits, and how every 2n'th digit ranges from 0 to 2. It's on purpose: they mean pairs which mean a numeric position within the alphabet:
01 = A, 22 = V, 05 = E. It's "AVE".
Now you know how to decode the second line.
I don't have a name for this #cipher: AFAIK, it's a novel cipher. My point is not to invent something, or to seem/feel superior: my point is that everything can be turned into a ciphering method. For example, one can spell aircraft registration numbers that will map to their respective manufacturers (Cessna, Bombardier, Embraer, etc) and models, then to their acrostics to form a word. You can map letters to digits that, when read through a given numeric base (e.g. hexadecimal), will map back to other letters. Possibilities are infinite, literally infinite.
Check my other posts where there are other (fairly easier) ciphering methods, if you wish to see more like this...
RE: https://calckey.world/notes/ab42zffp0z
David WakehamI set the standard curriculum aside and we connected through a yarn, storytelling, using my favourite #Dreamtime story of Tiddalick the Frog.
Please take a look at this wonderful #acrostic poem they created!
This was a moment where connection truly met with content.
PS: While traditional conventions emphasise orthographic alignment, subtle links are common; there's no rule against stating the theme, as long as it adds meaning to the poem's purpose & style.
3/8
Prism & PenThis month began slow, with doubt in the air,
Rainbow skies faded, stripped nearly bare.
All that I had was a pen and my voice,
Never been silent — resistance is a choice.
So I raised up my truth, let the fire ignite...
https://medium.com/prismnpen/pride-2025-theres-no-turning-back-poetry-147a8cc6869f?sk=03418b4ee9985fa110c12ea3f677ce16
GeorgeLThomasAcrostic - A Poem
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skua@minimarket
Takeaway burgers
Associated with faeces
Corrupt as a rotten avocado
Officially a felon