Have I (found poetry)

Sometimes words that seem unrelated can sing as one.

Better love 

alone

Paint;

stay;

mistake

Inhumane awhile 

okay Smiley-face 

well 

thanks

...thinking...

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Found poetry from WC user by name of "fake" - or rather their writing list the titles seemed to want to be together

- page http://www.writerscafe.org/Fake 

Helpfully the writings were numbered - a random picker program gave the sequence 6* 2 1 8 13 9 10 11 5 3 12 7 4

(http://numbergenerator.org/12randomnumbersbetween1and13)

The digit marked with asterisk was added to the front of the list afterwards due to only 12 numbers being available - (13 gave an 'invalid range' error.)

13  Stay

12  Well 

11  Awhile

10  Inhumane 

 9  Mistake

8   Paint

7   Thanks

6   Better

5   Okay

4  Thinking

3  Smiley-face

2  Love 

1  Alone

Reviews

[peter Duggan]

Hi Tony. I write words and find that so easy, but honestly i am totally confused when reading the words of many others. So I just write my feeble comments, and hope thy come out right. I enjoy reading your words, my friend, and wish i had your intelligence....Peter

[Tony Jordan]

Im humbled by your words Peter.
I dont see my writing or reviewing as particularly intelligent but maybe my hyper-sensitivity (bordering on an empathic overwhelm?) affords me a deeper look but it is a curse, believe me.
Thank you Peter. Much appreciated.

[andrew mitchell]

Is verse an art expressed in any form be It poetry or not. A thinker for sure Tony.

[Tony Jordan]

Cheers Andrew. Glad it made you think about what poetry is my friend.

[andrew mitchell]

Nope it didnt but shall carry on writing lol.

[Tony Jordan]

Haha - - you cad ! Class!
keep writing Andrew !

[emmajoy]

Or is it trying to attract attention by intrducing something different in the hope that at least one reader would find something different whereas others would find it ' hocus-pocus, what a a joke on us!'

Perhaps an answer - if there is one, depends on the meaning of the words: Poetry, Creativity, Originality, Semantics, Melodrama, Self-promotion .. there are more, far more

If nothing else, Tony, you've beckoned your reviewers to think ahead of themselves, to decide where there choices lie or .. perhaps, whether or not they float over language, trying to find a mooring!

[Tony Jordan]

lol - perhaps it is hocus-poetricus Em...lol
It's engaging in a kind of South-Bank Show way I think.
thank you Emma, as always...

[apennylate]

I have ALL the ladders... It never helps, TJ... I swear... What planet do you two inhabit...? It is not Earth... Your language is not like any earthlings I have encountered... Are you here for the invasion...?

[Tony Jordan]

lol - I have often felt the same way Silente. I know how that can be so unsettling.
Emma and I had the same Professor at college - here he is reading his version of Goldilocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh46KBfDD-M

[apennylate]

Are you trolling me right now...? Rofl, this video is crazy... You have to be kidding... Right?

[apennylate]

Your sarcasm is so advanced... I am not sure what is true or not... Lmao, I am dying of laughter over here

[Tony Jordan]

lol - you got me - he wasnt our professor but he is truly respected for creating his own language in England - Unwin-ese.
Genius !!

[apennylate]

Fudging... You are a master class troll-smith... Seriously... *Hat off*

[Tony Jordan]

troll-smith ...love that ...class Silente!

[apennylate]

I am sure you loved it half as much as I loved that dude trolling language in the video, lmao

[Tony Jordan]

The professor will be fallolloping in his gravelode.

[emmajoy]

Have you two finished messing with my page now, Clear off, go mow the yard or bleed the brakes!

[apennylate]

I have no idea what bleeding the brakes means... did you take an extra class under the esteemed professor...?

[Tony Jordan]

lol - that reminds me I must polish my knockers...what???
on the door ...brass knockers ...read morelol - that reminds me I must polish my knockers...what???
on the door ...brass knockers ...
lol

[apennylate]

Suuuuuure.... Brass knockers.... Suuuuuure

[emmajoy]

Going to charge you both rent.. parking fees on top.. my rights are being invaded!!!.

[Tony Jordan]

clamp the clampetts Em...

[apennylate]

I actually do not own a car... I use a longboard...

[emmajoy]

I dont have clams for pets.. have dogs..

Stop making me laugh, it hurts. Going now, going to sulk.. and then, cry.

[Ken Simm.]

I honestly don't know what to say here. I will have to consider this for a good long while. Is it poetry. Simply, I don't know. Interesting however and somewhat disconcerting.

[Tony Jordan]

Thank you Ken. Im glad you found it interesting.

[miahstr]

Its so abstract... its interesting. Thanks Tony!

[Tony Jordan]

The abstract always appealed to me miahstr and it must be affecting.
Thank you so much for a great review
:))

[Alisa Js]

Hello again from across the very long way,

I think that it takes an intelligent and creative mind to see what the masses overlook...

.... I am inclined to think that we, as writers... see things from a very different perspective...compared to the other humans who inhabit this planet...

lol


Nicely done, you...

Alisa ;-)

[Tony Jordan]

Aloha Alisa I concur with the creative analysis Alisa but not so much the intelligent ...lol.
I do like that my mind looks at things a bit askew but it can be such a hindrance in everyday life too.
Thank you very much my friend
:))

[alanwgraham]

Interesting idea. It reminds me of these plastic fridge magnets with words that beg to be given some sense- usually rude! I'm not entirely sure what you've done here but your poetic work makes as much sense to me as some other wc stuff. I can see that often a writers titles would be related so you are a step ahead of the monkey with his tablet
Keep experimenting!
Cheers,
Alan

[Tony Jordan]

Lol - monkeys on tablets - too funny. That's how the Planet of the Apes started, no?
I was surprised by the 'link-ability' (hey spellchecka didnt throw a hissy-fit at that one) of the titles but I guess I (and subsequent) readers were guilty of that.
Cheers Alan.
Next experiement: I'm going to put actual magnesium in the same room as the word 'feck' to see what happens. xD

[Dr. YumnaKay]

This made me remember the time when you wrote found poetry based on my title pieces some time ago. I think it's really a mark of talent of the writer piecing it altogether and seeing the pattern. I wouldn't call it plagiarism unless it is whole lines from their pieces...
Interesting write. Had me ... thinking ... ;p

P.S I did get more traffic after your found poetry otherwise I was a good happy nobody here lmao ;p

[Tony Jordan]

Hah - you can't blame me on all the traffic you got. You brought that on yourself Yumna - haha.
read moreHah - you can't blame me on all the traffic you got. You brought that on yourself Yumna - haha.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion though that it is a form of plagiarism and instead of waiting on retrospective permission I'm pulling this one until the user replies to my emails.
Thank you to you and to all who read/discussed this one.
:)))

[Tony Jordan]

OMH - the read more glitch struck after my long reply!
here goes again...
Hah - you can't blame me on all the traffic you got. You brought that on yourself Yumna - haha.
I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion though that it is a form of plagiarism and instead of waiting on retrospective permission I'm pulling this one until the user replies to my emails.
Thank you to you and to all who read/discussed this one.
:)))

[Dr. YumnaKay]

;p you're the biggest chunk in that to blame aside from my eccentricity lol ;P
Hm interesting conclusion then ;)
You're welcome, Tony (:

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that's a tough question...in a way it is piecing together, and there is creation in that...but it does seem to me to be a form of plagiarism, because it is using others' words---

the theme put together here feels of "better to imagine love than to try it first hand" safer that way...

there was someone on the site years ago who took lines from other's poems...complete lines...or titles and used those...but did not ask the poets, just used them...some got upset by that...she couldn't understand that...
best i can answer that question, Tony.

j.

[Tony Jordan]

I got the feeling that the words 'wanted to be together' and maybe in the poets mind - in a series - they were - all connected.
Thank you Jacob - I appreciate your input here.
I hope my inclusion of the poets name/link will be some consolation (if they get more traffic, I mean)

[Tony Jordan]

p.s. I liked the interpretation very much J.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Interesting.......I guess anything that is woven in such a way as to provoke emotion, reasoning, understanding and inquiry is art/poetry. These seemingly randomly constructed words and phrases give the reader the opportunity to put their own interpretation on it. Nice discussion Tony.

[Tony Jordan]

I see. Kind of 'filling in the blanks' - it's funny how the mind works like that. I recently saw an experiment whereby a long txt message was reduced to purely consonants and it was wholly readable, stripped down like that, as the original message.
Cheers for joining in the discussion my friend.