Kent PitmanI'd battle dragons
to protect your sexy brain.
Access my password.
#poem #haiku #senryu #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #geek #love #dragons #GeekPoetry #MagneticPoetry
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Years ago, I received a GEEK magnetic poetry kit that I only just today finally opened and used. This is my first attempt.
The absence of key words related to love was an annoyance. Especially "heart".
Procedurally, I had to arrange the words into groups to be able to have traction on this.
For more information on why groups help, and for some more thought on why this technique is actually more than a gimmick and a useful way to think about poetry writing, see the annotated version of my poem "In Quest", and click on both the part that lets you see the poem interpreted and the link farther down that tells you about how I constructed it.
Here's the whole setup to give a better sense of the challenge, for anyone who's not tried this. They are quite fun to try. Personally, I'd rather not all the geek terms. I think geekdom does itself a disadvantage by conversationally separating itself from the rest of the world. But, hey, when in Rome...
screwlisp@kentpitman
Well, I made the mistake of choosing a geek term without considering its letters. I just thought of my words. I *tried* to make it coherent.
Is the word obvious?
abject tome tea meet
emo mob abet jet cat
eat at a beat mat
Edit: I realized that abject tome is directly an anagram, and less depressing than the word tomb
Uh... Hint?
@kentpitman the word is in the title of a book by Gregor Kiczales. Hopefully I understood the game ;p
Oh, I see. You're doing the "ventriloquist" thing from my web link. Not specifically the fridge magnet set.
Yes, the word is clear. The poem, maybe slightly less so? Ha. But I think you're doing it right. It can just be a difficult thing.Did you find it fun? Instructive?
@kentpitman right, it had been a few hours since I looked at your post at what sprung to mind was the ventriloquist one. It was quite a lot of fun, certainly hard. I think it might not work as well in American English.
I guess people are having afternoon tea together in a depressing context; the place has a black cat ; their tablecloth (tablemat) is worn out.
Changing abject tomb to abject tome cheered it up a bit. I guess people are discussing a forgotten and underappreciated book..!