It's been a while since I've done one of these, but it's always fascinating to see what tone crops up on my friend's list for the day. (There's a lot of animals in this one.)

The Exercise: Using the day's LiveJournal friends list, collect snippets of prose from other people's entries. Using only one snippet per entry and altering nothing more than ( Read more... )

The last time I did a friend's list poem was in January 2006. it's been awhile, and I figured the 30 poems/30 days challenge for National Poetry Month would be a good time to resurrect the meme.

The exercise: Using the day's LiveJournal friends list, collect snippets of prose from other people's entries. Using only one snippet per entry and ( Read more... )

A really hard and time comsuming one from drood:

The exercise: Using the day's LiveJournal friends list, collect snippets of prose from other people's entries. Using only one snippet per entry and altering nothing more than their punctuation or capitalization, construct a poem from them.

The result:

Most of the facts,
as deemed necessary by the ( Read more... )