Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative game played (traditionally) by several people. In the poetry version, each player writes a word on paper, conceals said word, and then
gives the paper to the next player… so that she or he can add his or her
contribution.
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For
today’s prompt, I invite you to create a 3-to-13-line
poem using the Exquisite Corpse Solitaire method. To play the game solo,
we shall use 5 groups of 13 words (I’ve shared them at the end of this post),
and List Randomizer (a form that allows users to arrange items in random order).
Just follow this link to Random.Org.
Rules
and Guidance, for
Exquisite Corpse Poetry Solitaire:
1. Each line must contain the following (in the given
order): adjective, noun, verb, adjective, noun.
2. You can change tense and number to help the found words
fit your poem.
3. Use conjunctions, articles, and prepositions to connect your found words.
4. The found word groups must remain in their original lines
(Don’t break your found groupings!).
5. Punctuation is a friend to the Exquisite Corpse Poetry
Solitaire player.
Here
is a wee example, using
the words for this prompt:
the
found words:
clean hand vex stocky year
dazzling month live long study
glamourous life arise plain place
the
birthed poem:
Clean hands vex. Stocky years
dazzle months lived in the long study
of glamourous lives that arose in plain places.
13 Adjectives, group 1
attractive
bald
beautiful
chubby
clean
dazzling
drab
elegant
fancy
fit
flabby
glamorous
gorgeous
13 Nouns, group 1
book
case
night
day
coffee
group
hand
fact
home
job
life
month
eye
13 Verbs
burst
arise
live
behold
feel
cast
undulate
slay
look
make
slink
vex
will
13 Adjectives, group 2
long
unkempt
muscular
short
plump
scruffy
quaint
shapely
plain
skinny
magnificent
stocky
unsightly
13 Nouns, group 2
study
word
problem
question
state
year
thing
people
student
time
place
world
story
Do
visit Poets.Org: Play Exquisite Corpse, for a much cooler example… and to read
about how the game is played (with other people). I hope you have fun. I hope
we can laugh and be surprised (pleasantly, I hope).
a wee note: I edited the guidance to add prepositions to 3.
a wee note: I edited the guidance to add prepositions to 3.