What can I say? I'm weird. So, I was experimenting with poetr forms, and found a great way to make sure that every word is perfect in it's place (or as close as you can get it!).
The idea is to write two different poems/phrases (or if, you're brave write two different lines of the poem in the form) by using a system of rows and colums, sort of like Matrix algebra, really.
It's rather a mind bending exercise really. The idea is to write a phrase/poem that is intelligable by reading the rows and by reading the colums. Sort of like below in my bad example.
Light through the key holes
found sound love meaning under
it's soul here in my
way peace breaks open space.
The idea is to write two different poems/phrases (or if, you're brave write two different lines of the poem in the form) by using a system of rows and colums, sort of like Matrix algebra, really.
It's rather a mind bending exercise really. The idea is to write a phrase/poem that is intelligable by reading the rows and by reading the colums. Sort of like below in my bad example.
Light through the key holes
found sound love meaning under
it's soul here in my
way peace breaks open space.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
