Senryu : Exquisite Corpse

Magaly Guerrero over at Imaginary Pond challenges folks to do an Exquisite Corpse poem.  When you do it with people, you write a line or draw a section, fold the paper, next person writes/draws the next line/section without seeing the previous creation, and so forth. Then you unfold it and see the poem/drawing the group has created.

Magaly created a virtual version. She made lists of adjectives, nouns, and verbs. You throw them in a randomizer and there’s your poem.

Each line has to be adjective, noun, verb, adjective, noun

because I do haiku, I’ll have to throw some words out to make the syllable count so from

dazzling book feels gorgeous thing
skinny problem questions short home
shapely job undulates attractive life

became this senryu / haiku

dazzled book felt gorged
skinned problem questioned short home
shaped job undulates

Go to her Exquisite Corpse Poetry challenge to see the Rules and Guidance, for Exquisite Corpse Poetry Solitaire.

After I threw all the words in the randomizer, here was the list I was working from

1. book
2. dazzling
3. thing
4. problem
5. gorgeous
6. skinny
7. home
8. short
9. question
10. shapely
11. job
12. attractive
13. feel
14. muscular
15. unkempt
16. undulate
17. life
18. case
19. quaint
20. stocky
21. arise
22. cast
23. behold
24. hand
25. make
26. clean
27. look
28. day
29. fact
30. coffee
31. beautiful
32. will
33. place
34. long
35. year
36. drab
37. slink
38. eye
39. bald
40. night
41. state
42. scruffy
43. plain
44. magnificent
45. glamorous
46. study
47. plump
48. flabby
49. live
50. story
51. fancy
52. time
53. world
54. burst
55. elegant
56. chubby
57. group
58. slay
59. unsightly
60. student
61. month
62. people
63. fit
64. word
65. vex

Weekend Mini-Challenge: Exquisite Corpse Poetry
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You can use the Amazon search bar to do a search as I did with “exquisite corpse”. Results can vary daily. There were a few notables that I didn’t see that I think should have shown up: A Book of Surrealist Games, The Exquisite Book: 100 Artists Play a Collaborative Game, and a very cool audio book where different writers add a piece to a horror tale Exquisite Corpse, Season 1.

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