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When I was a kid, I used to love mock poems. My favorite was the following:
"It was dark, the moon was shining bright
on the green, snow-covered grass
when a car with high velocity
was turning slowly around the corner"
It sounds really awkward in the English translation, but in the original German it's good. It's unclear who it was written by. Some say it was Goethe, others say that it was Christian Morgenstern, or it was someone else entirely.
Basically, you write lines that contradict themselves. I thought this might be an interesting challenge for the writers among you.
- write lines that contradict themselves
- try to make it rhyme / match the syllables
- it can be funny, sad, thoughtful or just plain mockery
Those are the basic rules I could think of. Maybe you have other suggestions.
I myself am not a poet, MC, rapper or whatever the hell you call people that can rhyme things and actually make it sound good. I do write, but only fiction.
However, this is what I came up with as an example. Surely, the more experienced writers among you could come up with something better.
It is dark, while the moon shines bright as the ancient child, a sly fool
Slowly races upon a sloop floating across a mountain pool
His hostile friend stands beside him many miles away and the fool
Screams quietly, so he is heard but not seen, ‘Trickster, long it’s been
We last met at the crack of night. How can it be that day comes near
After sunset when it’s clear that brightest gloom tracks the lack of light?’
The trickster answered wordlessly, ‘Time draws circles in a straight line.
Therefore night runs after daytime as dusk goes in pursuit of light.’
The fool asked knowingly, ‘Trickster, how come the absence of truth is
Not always a lie?’ ‘We are true at all times,’ the fraud told the fool.
‘Because each time we fib, people can’t tell whether or not we trick.’
At the very least, I was able to match the syllables as well as possible
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