Original Fiction and Poetry

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Original Fiction & Poetry
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Chesleyan Chestnuts

You can read more original fiction from Emily Chesley in the Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle<

"Anagramtic" Rengu

More Anagramtic Poetry

An Ode

The Chesleyan "Anagramtic" Rengu

Dadaism

Dadaism
is Mad
is Sad
Sad Sad Mad Dada
Mad Sadism,
Sad Madism,
Sad Mad Miasma
Dadaism

If this form of poetry does not already exist, I would like to christen it "Anagramtic", a poem defined not by the number of words or lines, but solely by the letters one is allowed to use. With seven letters, this would be Anagramtic Septimeter.

--Just Quisling

Merciless

Merciless
See eels
See lice
Lice rice eel reels
Less cress
Less mess
See Riel smile
Merciless

That one was in Anagramtic Nonimeter

--Flyboy

[Freudian] Anagramtic Nonimeter

Argentinian Mom react:
I contaminant… are… germ…
Generation can't aim, Mr.

Mom! Ant rag incinerate,
tan mango recriminate,
Man, in Mac interrogate!
I'm --am-- arrogance intent…

...Anagramtic Nonimeter

[Imagine this recited by William Shatner, a la "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".]

--The Squire

More rengu?  Yes please!...>