218 - Story Starters

Day 218. This collection of phrases was made using an app called PoetryMagnets, which is similar to other poetry generation apps I've used. I don't like this one as much though as it doesn't seem to offer any of those small joining words that help put other words into sentences, so all. Ended up with was these disjointed phrases. But it could be useful as a story starter, giving students a set of phrases like this and building a story around them.

216 - Visual Poet

Day 216. This piece was made with an app called Visual Poet, which lets you take three images and arrange them in a panel, then add simple text phrases to them. I recycled these faces from a previous daily create and added the phrases to them. The text is a little dark, no idea where it came from in my head, but it juxtaposes sharply with the brightly colored images I think.

 

213 - Fluff and Fire

Day 213. While I was waiting at the Orange County airport today for Kevin and a Juan I explored an app called FridgePoems on my iPad. Basically it gives you a bunch of cards with words on them, which you then have to try and arrange into sentences to form poetry. It's harder than it sounds, as the words are selected for you and you only get a limited number of conjunctions to work with. And nouns, verbs and adjectives too!

Here's my first attempt at constrained poetry ... What could your students come up with using this idea?

201- Pushy with Expression

Day 201. Using an app called Verses Poetry, this poem was created using a random collection of words. The app generates word tags which can be dragged around into sentences. It's possible to add custom words to fill in missing gaps, but I refused to give in, hence the somewhat odd sentences. Interesting approach to poetry though.

 

 

 

198 - Ten Haikus

Day 198. After my recent create using random prose created with the predictive text feature in Swiftkey for Android, I had a comment from Kelli McGraw suggesting that I might do a Haiku poem for a daily create. So I thought I'd try to use the same predictive text idea to make Haiku poems... Just let the app suggest the next word, and stop adding words when the right number of syllables on each line is reached, usually a 5, 7, 5 pattern for Haiku.

Some of them are a little bizarre, but there's a couple of surprising examples in here that I really quite like. And that's one of the interesting things about creativity when you allow randomness to intervene... you get a lot of rubbish, but you also find some unexpected gems. Which is your favorite?

Good evening sunshine
Looking at art and culture
Of my favourite things

That you can get it
Right away from my own home
At the moment for me

It sounds like a lot
More than one person to be
Out in the sunshine

With this product on
My own personal serenade
The same thing as well

I guess you're working
Today's world of difference
Between a rock star

In the meantime you
Can also be the first one
To watch the world

To see the world
Is not the same as seeing the
Other side of things

That I can see why
You should be able to join
Us for a while

Back to the sunshine
Looking forward to the answer
To the next couple

Just wanted to say
Thank you for letting me know
What works best for you