Thursday Prompt #17: Wordle Yourself

Nicole Nicholson brings us this week’s prompt, which is to Wordle yourself. She says,

“For this week’s prompt, we’re going to do a little something interesting. You’ll make your own Wordle from one (or more) of your own poems, and then write a new poem out of the resulting Wordle.

Here’s how it works:

Step 1. Visit http://www.wordle.net/ and click on the “Create your own” link near the top left of the page.

Step 2. Paste the text of one of your poems into the first text box at the top of the “Create” page.. If your poems tend to be under ten lines or if you wrote a bunch of really rockin’ short form poetry (like haiku, haynaku, lunes, or tanka) then you can use several of those poems for this exercise.

Step 3. Click the “Go” button right below the text box. You will be taken to the resulting page where your brand new Wordle will appear! (Note: you can monkey around with the color, font, and layout as you like using the menu options shown above your brand new Wordle.)

Step 4. Write down between six and twelve of the largest words in your Wordle and use those words to write a brand new poem.

Here’s an example of a Wordle that I did this with my poem, Backwards. You’ll have to come back Wednesday for the Post Your Poems post to see my resulting poem.

If you can’t do the Wordle for technical reasons, then here’s another way to approach the prompt: take a poem (or two, or five) of your own and pick out between six and twelve of your most frequently used words, and then write a new poem.

Feel free to post your Wordle image with your poems. And have fun with the prompt this week!”

Here is a Wordle of e. e. cummings’ “anyone lived in a pretty how town” :

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