Shuffle the words

Choose a very short poem.

If you are ambitious, write a short poem yourself. If you don't feel like writing, choose a poem from your memory, search a poem or use the poem from the Dadaism exercise.

An alternative is to use these two lines form Emily Dickinson.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;

Now to the assignment. Shuffle the words so it becomes a new poem.

The poem you make does not need to have correct grammar, and it does not have to be comprehensible.

No energy?

If you don't have the energy to do this exercise, just push the button below. The words will be shuffled for you. Continue until you are satisfied (or get bored).

3 minutes

I suggest that you spend 3 on this writing exericse.

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