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Magnetic Poetry
By KaydieKate
24 September 2008

Someone gave me a box of that "magnetic poetry" [little magnets with different words on them.] I decided to try a little idea. I grabbed a handful and made a poem out of it. It felt a lot like 'sight reading' music. I gave myself two minutes. This is what I got.

You will see some words repeated: I scooped them all back up and mashed them all around again. I allowed myself to not use three words, one of them, surprisingly enough, was always "egg." I don't know why I picked that one up so much...

Attempt 1:
Tell his apparatus manly men
Use their tongue and butt
Never worship some lovely still goddess
or a hot woman will knife you

Attempt 2:
So we said living is not like they say
Love is void of sweetness
Eternity is a waxy winter
Like some enormous sausage
A frantic repulsive symphony
Moaning of bitter days

Attempt 3:
Part of him is frantic
to have life but he
would not  could not
live
so languid is the sea

Attempt 4:
Love may swim near death
in a cool & aching symphony
through spray and purple sausages
with vision falls the void
stop singing of mad summers
when blood was bare of honey
and beneath the waters whispering
there trudged a bitter dream

Reviews
Wow... Haha.
Written by corinne004 (5 comments posted) 24th September 2008
Sausages? :p  
 
I really like these. Different, abstract, out there. Classically you. Did you really come up with these in two minutes each?
Uh-huh
Written by zee666 (51 comments posted) 29th September 2008
Interesting to say the least, as the guy above me said they were very abstract and abstract-ness is a quality i like so, 9/10 just for the randomness and the fact they were done with magnet letters.

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