50wordstories.ca » poet https://50wordstories.ca/blog "Brevity is the soul of wit" -- Shakespeare Fri, 03 May 2013 19:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Magnetic Poet https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=342 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=342#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:34:59 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=342 The Poet would sprinkle some iron shavings on a large white board, and then place a bunch of randomly tangled wires under the board.  Then he would run electricity through each wire.

The shavings would then rearrange.  The results would then be decoded into poetry.

Sometimes, the results were good.

]]> https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?feed=rss2&p=342 0 The Poem or the Poet https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=148 https://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=148#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:00:58 +0000 http://50wordstories.ca/blog/?p=148 When the poet started writing his poem, he said to himself, “I will end it when it wants to. I am but a conduit through which the art flows.”

What he didn’t know was that once the poem has no more need for a conduit, that conduit ceases to be.

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