Xyster Poems | Examples


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Eager
        wacky
               feisty
                      sabotaging
                                     
pachisi
                                              
sagenesses by,
                               
                            cry  DADA—

 sanguinely,
               cum
                  pacific
                          fables,

vain to hachured mean odiums'  
mind.

Yawping,
            let idiotisms
                            to habitual 
palaver
Xyster!



{Method for a mathematical 
poetry connection: 
•Choose the word length of the 
poem if wished. 
•Generate that many random 
numbers using range 1-26 
(letters in alphabet)
•Choose words such that each 
has the number of letters of 
one random number. 
•The letter beginning the word 
should be the number of its 
place in the alphabet. 
•Cast out the 9s on large 
numbers, e.g., 26 is 6+2=8. 
Few Z-words of 26 letters. 
•Make the poem in the order 
the random numbers were 
generated or scramble them as 
pleases. 
•Voila. }

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