Brilliant as ever! And it made me think about another restrictive verse form that, as far as I know, you've never attempted: The Scrabblegram. Not sure what else to call it, but in Scrabble competitions, it's very important to check and make sure all the tiles are there, and there are a few poems people have written to help, using every letter in the game (and, of course, both blanks). A guy named David Cohen has been writing them for years, and his first one won a Games Magazine Scrabblegram contest in 1997:
A clown jumps above a trapeze,
Arcs over one-eighty degrees,
Out into mid-air,
Quite unaware
Of his exiting billfold and keys.
(The blanks here are E and S.)
Because all Scrabblegrams are, by definition, exactly 100 letters/tiles long, they're pretty easy to share on social media, and I think that was David Cohen's entire output for a while. Anyway, I'd love to see what you do.
I’ve only ever written one (blanks in square brackets)
SCRABBLE
A game
of S[c]rabble
is a jolly
experience.
I act in duty,
organize
square
tokens
on top
of a grid.
I hunt
valued
word[s].
I view them.
It’s a constraint I sometimes recommend to people just starting out with anagrams — with 100 letters to play with, it’s pretty easy to write whatever you want with them, especially given those useful blanks!
Brilliant as ever! And it made me think about another restrictive verse form that, as far as I know, you've never attempted: The Scrabblegram. Not sure what else to call it, but in Scrabble competitions, it's very important to check and make sure all the tiles are there, and there are a few poems people have written to help, using every letter in the game (and, of course, both blanks). A guy named David Cohen has been writing them for years, and his first one won a Games Magazine Scrabblegram contest in 1997:
A clown jumps above a trapeze,
Arcs over one-eighty degrees,
Out into mid-air,
Quite unaware
Of his exiting billfold and keys.
(The blanks here are E and S.)
Because all Scrabblegrams are, by definition, exactly 100 letters/tiles long, they're pretty easy to share on social media, and I think that was David Cohen's entire output for a while. Anyway, I'd love to see what you do.
I’ve only ever written one (blanks in square brackets)
SCRABBLE
A game
of S[c]rabble
is a jolly
experience.
I act in duty,
organize
square
tokens
on top
of a grid.
I hunt
valued
word[s].
I view them.
It’s a constraint I sometimes recommend to people just starting out with anagrams — with 100 letters to play with, it’s pretty easy to write whatever you want with them, especially given those useful blanks!
I feel strongly judged by your Pangrams.
Today I learned that you built a crwth! Do you include it in your recordings?
It's handmade, but not handmade by me!
I used it on my Bluer EP, which consists only of crwth and bouzouki. I'm also currently using it on something new.