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by 'numbers'
This exercise invites you to create a poem by filling the gaps with appropriate words...
Have a play. See where it leads you. Edit. See what you end up with and post a link here for us to admire!
[preposition] the [Season] [Heavenly body]
When the [adjective] [colour]
[verb]s shimmering
[preposition] [place] nights,
[Name], the [colour] [noun],
[verb]s and [verb]s to [pronoun]
As a [adjective] [noun]
Who [verb]s.
[preposition] the [Season] [flower(s)]
When the [adjective] [colour]
[verb]s in the [time of day]
Of the [adjective] [colour] leaves,
[emotion], with little [noun]s,
[verb]s and [verb]s [pronoun]
With [number] [plural noun],
And [verb]s [pronoun] Beautiful, [adjective] [noun]s.
P.S. - Pags offers kudos to the first person who remembers what poem this exercise is based upon?
- ShannonV on Feb. 13 2007 - # - edit · delete
- I DID IT. It blows. I filled it all in with compelte disregard for context, like madlibs, then edited it a little and deleted a bunch. Yeeppppp.
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(modified by anstey) - EmilyRose on Feb. 13 2007 - # - edit · delete
- LOL, this seems like so much fun! Shan, the first thing I thought reading through was "Cool. Mad libs for poets!"
