Anyone reading the inkwell, will know i like to write a bit of verse from time to time. For this particular literary challenge i had to switch each noun in the poem and replace it with a noun 7 words down
So, pulling out my old Longman’s pocket dictionary and my personal copy of BBC Books The Nation’s Greatest Poems, i flipped to a random page. Using the poem on that page , i created the Oulipo.
Here’s the original poem by Robert Frost – before we begin
A poem for the above picture prompt provided by the promptuarium
Thrown headlong into the fisherman’s basket
the captured crabs jostle about
no ambition to end up as five star dining,
served up by a celebrity chef
so they climb on top of one another
creating a ladder to escape to the blue
with their crafty claws
scurring sideways and overboard
instead of ending cooked and on serving board
An Old poem recovered from my dusty old box of writings, written back in October 2012, when i was reminiscing on my Ambassadorial experiences…and mum and dad were out of the house – so i had to go foraging….
Thursday evening and I’m on the hunt for some tea
after spending an hour in’th museum or three
so i pick up me notebook from BASIC thats laid
and search for a recipe to come to my aid
I hop to the market to buy me some fish
to try and do justice to a most yummy dish
I chop up an Onion and a jar of some sauce
and not forgetting the pasta of course
I boil up some water from kettle to pan
and add the twirly pasta, according to plan
and so it don’t stick, or so it don’t spoil
i add to the pan a drop of veg oil.
I fry off the onion, in the oil in the pan
and then add the fish thats been sealed in the can