INSTRUCTIONS
1. Take a poem you’ve found on the internet.
2. Copy and paste it into a blank word document.
3. On the first word, right click, (ctrl + click for mac users) select Synonyms and choose the third word down, if there are less than three words choose the final word in the list. If there are no synonyms simply move on.
4. Repeat Step Three on all words in the poem.
5. Congratulations, you have written a brand new poem.
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here are some examples
‘Ode LXI’
Not limestone, nor the paint gold gravestone
Of princes, shall survive this authoritative nursery rhyme;
But you shall be good at intense in these innards,
Then unclean limestone, besmear’d with sluttish point in time.
When uneconomical warfare shall effigy tip over,
And riot source not in the job of building material,
Nor Mars his steel, nor warfare’s speedy bonfire shall be ablaze.
The living wage documentation of your recall
‘Gainst passing away, and all unmindful antagonism
Shall you swiftness forward; your extol shall unmoving, come across opportunity,
Smooth in the judgment of all posterity
That sport this globe out to the final lot in life.
So, till the finding that by hand take place,
You be in this world in this, and have your home in lovers’ judgment.
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‘The Time Be Not Completely Adequate’
And the time be not completely adequate
And the dark be not completely adequate
And time loses your balance in approximating a grassland mouse
Not quivering the meadow.
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Dissimilarity on an Idea by William Carlos Williams.
1
I slice downstairs the dwelling with intention, you have cutback to be in this world in the summer.
I am remorseful, excluding it was sunrise, I have nil to act
and its timber sunbeams were so alluring.
2
We giggle at the hollyhocks mutually
And afterward I sprayed them with lye.
Forgive and forget me. I merely do not be on familiar terms through what I am burdened with.
3
I give the left change that you have been cutting back to be in this world for the
then ten times.
The chap who solicited for it was ragged
and the rigid March wind speed on the portal was so thirst quenching and icy.
4
Preceding dusk we go hopping and I penniless your crutch.
Forgive and forget me. I be ungainly and
I sought after you now in the area, somewhere I am the doctor of medicine!