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Google Poem Creator
If you have more time - or possibly more imagination - than I do, you might have fun with Finnish poet Leevi Lehto’s Google poem creator. In addition to the poem creator, the site has postings of a number of poems, including one entire chapbook called Search Engine by Debby Florence (illustration on the right - this “oragami fold” chapbook is into its second printing and well worth the $5 price tag just for the graphics!). There is also an anthology of Google poems and a page that will let you do forms.
Here is a sonnet I “wrote” in the five minutes I spent at the site yesterday:
march roars in
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22 2004 13:55:27 EST by xbox, - Read
on top of melting snow near Brown Road
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roars in like a lion Wet and fluffy snow
22 2004 13:55:27 EST by xbox, - Readthe winter weather gods went back
A daffodil lays on top of melting snow
I’m pretty sure I could have done better if I’d set better parameters or had a better search phrase but I kept this one because I was charmed by that last couplet (even though it is either ungrammatical or daffodils have become oviparous). And there’s an interesting rhyme scheme.
I got the link from Silliman’s Blog. He has a nice discussion about Leevi Lehto and Finnish poetry.
Update: Leevi Lehto was kind enough to add my poem to the anthology. He likes that last couplet too.
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