Thursday, May 31, 2007

Anagram Prompt, as Promised

Go to a news website (CNN.com, etc.) and copy and paste four headlines into a word doc.

Cadet's wild dance creates YouTube sensation
Loch Ness videographer 'couldn't believe my eyes'
Zoo: Rare rhino death leaves only 13 worldwide
Rowling announces Potter Park

Grab 5-10 words you like enough to leave intact:

Cadet
wild
Zoo
leaves
videographer
Rowling
Park
Rare

delete those words from your original list. Leave all the rest:

's dance creates YouTube sensation
Loch Ness 'couldn't believe my eyes'
: rhino death only 13 wide
announces Potter

Use this mush to create another list of 5-10 words, anagram style. Just scan the word mush and see if your eyes pick out words automatically. (delete the letters you use from the mush as you go):

tub
level
wordy
ration
hint
bees
wreath
Yuletide

's dance cees sensa
Loch Ness 'coudn' ei my '
: o d only 13 wide

With the remaining mush, fabricate two or three words. Work those phascinating phonemes!

chonless
desnal
moudo

Now you have a word list! Create a poem using as many of those words as you can, plus one of the original headlines, only slightly altered if at all.



Such rare and chonless masses
to sort the desnal rations.
On the level: this zoo your relative
videographer sizes up is for the bees.
A wreath of bees can outwild
the moudo tunes you only hint ‘round
come Yuletide. Rumors a cadet hired
just to tub you. And you, wordier
than the Rowling Journals. You afraid
to admit to a smitten rhino,
its death that leaves only 13 worldwide.

1 comment:

"D" Vinagret said...

Original words, interesting blog
Wonderful picture. "Smiles"