Thursday, April 10, 2014

OULIPOST #10: SNOWBALL

The Prompt:
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.
The process:
I tried to follow the rules but towards the end of the second stanza..I found words I liked that sort of went with the ideals of the poems. This was challenging and again with the counting!!!  I have to say ...I liked how i capped some and others I did not and then I didn't and needed consistency.
The result:

Jesus


I
In
the
Long
First
Gospel
Swiftly
Document
Spiritual
Originally
Composition
Significance

Christianity
Specialists
Meticulous
Meanwhile
Fragment
Critics
Gospel
Grasp
That
One
In
I

Source:
Wangsness, Lisa. “Finding adds to “Jesus’s Wife’ These’”. The Boston Globe. 10 April 2014. A1-A10. Print.

2 comments:

katy said...

ooooh, the shape is sexy.

Nicole said...

haha! I noticed that too. ;)