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