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Francis,
Alissa. “Five tips to make your 2014 garden easier.” The Ottawa Citizen. D7.
PROMPT: SNOWBALL
This procedure requires the first word of a text to have
only one letter, the second two, the third three, and so on as far as
resourcefulness and inspiration allow. The first word of a snowball is normally
a vowel: in English, a I or O.
From your newspaper, select a starting vowel and then
continue adding words of increasing length from the same source article or
passage. Challenge yourself further by only using words in order as you
encounter them in the text.
[this exercise has nothing to do with cum swapping. sorry, I’m
a perve. had to go there…]
ELABORATION
I couldn’t resist trying this backwards as well. Turns out
that’s also a snowball form: the melting snowball. Melting snowballs are poems
in which each word has one letter less than the previous.
FUN ACTIVITY
In the Oulipo
Compendium, Harry Mathews mentions that another way to snowball is to
snowball syllables. It’s called rhopalic verse. Victor Hugo wrote a poem called
Djinns in this form. An avalanche is
a sequence of snowballs. Try any of these out. Use SortMyList.com & sort
words according to length.
Take a look at more Oulipian snowballs over at the FoundPoetry Review.
2 comments:
i like the way this looks on the page. 'mugo'... what great word. nice!
thanks! i do love the word mugo.
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