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We welcome you all to the chasing-sheep nano-poetry festival ... which will now run for an unspecified period depending on levels of interest.
Whether a work is nano is easily assessed by counting the constituent characters. Whether a work is poetry is somewhat more subjective!
So far we have the following 4 works of economic brilliance:
On the onomatopoeic howling of wolves, by Ms Signs:
woolf
On behalf of the prodigal son before his return home, Dr But Why? offers:
famly
On the disappointment of lost consonants, I comment:
issing
And on the neverendingness of the search for meaning, Badger contributes:
wh?
We invite you to contribute as many nano-poems as you can muster. No work too small :) Personally I intend leaving my computer on over night to see what the cats can compose by morning ...
10 comments:
Hmm, a couple of rough thoughts
ointles
(what's the point?)
endles
(interminable)
vwl-lss
(though I fear the hyphen may be extraneous to requirements)
oh! I love the endles in particular ...
I think you may have created the world's first triptych nano-poem ...
Genius :)
Here's a poem I call “Ah, well…”:
Ah, well…
I'm tempted to go for the whole John Cage 4'33" silence thing ...
as the ultimate nano-poem.
Existentially I'd suggest
I
More verbosely
'nuff said
Or knowing how you like anagrams
Anyone Port (sounds techie)
Nape Nor Toy (sounds like a proverb)
Earn No Typo (sounds like a legal clause)
Yearn On Top (a romantic position)
Rate No Pony (betting tip)
Apron Ye Not (witches spell)
Nay Pet No Or (nearly a Yorkshire saying)
Oh the passing season of heat
sum'er
And
As sirens blight the silence
nee-naw
Concrete poetry:
squ
are
t
ri
an
gular
v
e
r
t
i
c
a
l
cider
a summary of regret for starting friday evening early and stumbling upon a blog which challenges the mind, leaving a void in the vault of self esteem and a sense of failure when unable to respond in a worthy fashion
greg - I think ah, well is rather fab.
bobo - nice anagrams ... I have to say Ms M is the master anagram solver - she whips through the Guardian cryptic like nobody's business.
absolute vanilla (& atyllah) ... those are both beautiful - and such lovely contrast :)
Jean - omg! They are fab - and sooooo fantastically nerdy :) I have been thinking about whether it is possible to write Regular Expression poetry ... but Ms M has asked me never to attempt to explain it to her again ...
Queen Vixen ... ah yes, I remember those days ...
I think I will make a special blog widget for our nano-poems ... but I must finish my proper work first, so it won't be til next week ... but I have a lovely idea :)
Dedicated to dysfunctional families everywhere...
faiils me
I should go
(The realisation to end all realisations)
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