Random Words Poetry

2008 June 29
by Brian

For Read~Write~Poem this week the prompt suggests collecting ‘Random Words’ and creating a poem. I am much too lazy, busy to do that, so I used a Random sentence generator to create the following sentences.


Inside a latest actor purges the rattling obstruction
A feminist bookstore farms.
A cheap believer generalizes the theorem into the neat cupboard.
An extract dashes with a pacifier!
An indistinguishable precedent refunds a distress.
Why can’t an ashamed career head a wild?

An accident names the pragmatic diameter.
A lamp clicks with a unaffected supporter.
Can each component think?
Why won’t the myth act?
The district pardon reckons in each newcomer.
The suffering algebra entrances the adventure under every continuous sister.
How will a moved star behave?
Another silicon originates within the adviser.
The factory composes in a highlight!
A twist jokes.

“Laugh track is for amateurs”

under the lamp

a feminist jokes

how can the actor think?

an indistinguishable adviser reckons

cheap silicon inside

names an ashamed supporter

with a career

a neat pacifier!

suffering obstruction

sister purges

every twist in distress

the head rattling

each generalizes

why won’t the myth behave?

another believer farms

can’t pardon a highlight!

continuous component composes

the precedent

a star extract

a pragmatic newcomer unaffected

why an algebra theorem wild?

each cupboard

a diameter

the latest adventure

originates in a factory

the entrances moved

will the clicks act?

within a district an accident

dashes into the bookstore

with the refunds

12 Responses leave one →
  1. 2008 June 29

    I came out of that feeling as I frequently do when exposed to a comedy club — confused, befuddled and not at all humorous.

  2. 2008 June 30

    A valiant effort, Brian! I’m afraid I took one look at the prompt this week and thought, no. It looked too much like hard work ;-)

  3. 2008 June 30

    Quill, it’s better with alcohol… so I’ve heard. ;)

    Anthony my thought as well, but I’m glad I tried.

  4. 2008 June 30

    Phew! I had to read this one three times but you know what? I like it!

  5. 2008 June 30

    I like your take on the prompt. My favorite individual line is “why won’t the myth behave?”…and the poem in front and behind it behaved and mis-behaved delightfully.

  6. 2008 June 30

    I like the line deb mentions too, plus algebra theorem gone wild. Wonderful sense of play with the sentences.

  7. 2008 June 30

    my fav is every twist in distress…

  8. 2008 June 30

    Fun, and a good brain twister ;)

  9. 2008 July 1

    What a great source you came up with for a pool of words to use. And the poem was like choreographed anarchy: somehow the randomness of it all moved in a rhythm that made sense.

  10. 2008 July 1

    I like this very much. You did great!

    I kind of picked up random sentences and words from whateversource I could and wrote mine. However, the last two lones are entirely mine.

    from the palms of my hand, you stand tall

  11. 2008 July 1

    These very elliptical, fragmented moments reminded me of the book “This Is Not A Novel” (David Markson). I like the self-interpretative, non-narrative sense here… like trying to follow sunlight bouncing off water. My favorite lines: “why won’t the myth behave?” (which is a marvelous line), and “The latest adventure / originates in a factory” (which seems like a prompt in itself).

  12. 2008 July 1

    Thank you everyone for your inspiring comments. The less I think the better I write.

    Having problems again with the internet at work, lately we’ve been losing the connection several times every day. Not good when you’re in the middle of commenting.

    Saw a stunning double rainbow this morning at 7am driving to work. It started off as a wisp of faint color in the western clouds as thunderstorms moved to the east. As I drove north the rainbow got brighter when the sun glowed through morning breaks and ten miles later, it grew to a full circle and shone starkly against a gray bank.

    A poem based on the rainbow.

    http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/everything-has-color/

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