CloseWord Poetry
Part of the Quipo Life
CloseWord poetry is a restricted form of verse that attempts to produce adjacent lines containing corresponding words that have a very low Hamming distance between them. That means that close words are more than sound alike, e.g., ocean and motion are not close words, while motion and lotion are. This closeness ensures a rhyming pattern. Further restrictions are that the poem should have a storyline and only four lines.
The following CloseWord poetry is copyrighted by the authors, and may not be reproduced in any form, anywhere, by anyone, without the author's permission. All the authors have either lived in Durban in South Africa, or have studied Computer Science. Some have done both.
Chris Amman
The Arch Bishop
Too fat
To run
Two faced
Tutu
Shedding
her suit
(mohair)
makes him
hirsute
Consent
Please?
Sure.
Able?
Pleasurable.
Bryan Human
Afrikaans Jurists
die wet is die wet
die Wet is die Wet.
Die weet die wet
deviate.
Occipital Occurances
ear ring
ear ring
hearing
ear ring
Stuart Kemp
Rugger Bugger
hustle
bustle
wrestle
Castle
Backward Beer
sad
bad
beer
Bud
The RS of A
fine
line
mine
Lion
Roman Tic
V.C.
V.D.
vici
VB
Stuart Melville
Bad Fire
arson
is sin
incidentally
incendiary
Male Laughter
He
he he he
he he he he he
He
Lance Siebuhr
Snow
Snowfall
Snowball
Snowfall
Snowman
Autumn
Autumn leaves
Autumn rain
Autumn leaves
Winter
Mark Slade
Dog Pick-up
smitten
awaken
rotten
forgotten
Lifeless Boat
shores
roars
oars
snaps
Geoff Sutcliffe
Death of a Fish
A fish
A fish
A fishhook
A fish
Woodworm
Boreing
Boreing
Boreing
Completely boring
Romance
Hair cut
Her cute
He can't
He hurt
The DTs
Drinking wildly
Thinking mildly
Sinking slowly
To the floor below me
Ballet
Per Chance
To Prance
In France.
A Dance?
Nice Curves
A sign?
Sine
Mathematical
design
Conquest
Sexual
prying
Lieing
Lying
Shampoo
Watching her
Washing hair
Long locks
Longing looks
#2
I sit for a while
And shit for a while
Comes out in a rush
Out comes the brush
Professional
Street walking
Man stalking
Sweet talking
Money taking
Sahara
Ships of the desert
Shit in the desert
Where you see a tree
There is camel pee
Jade Sutcliffe
Cairo Taxi
Hail
Hail
Fare enough?
Fair enough
Geoff Tollefson
Continuum
Wild to love life
Love to love wife
Life to love child
Child to love life