A Pulitzer winner wrote a short story without using the letter "I"
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UNIVERSE
a total zoo;
a black catacomb of foamy topology;
galaxy jambalaya
#lipogram
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BLIZZARD
the soft economy of ghosts;
on the couch,
we note the sensuousness of the phenomenon,
whose cosmos of cotton ensconces
coffeehouses, townhouses, towns:
the gusty monotony of the tempest,
then the monotone hush of footsteps on snow
#lipogram
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Making a king in G
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#writing #lipogram #music
[I actually want to see if I can make a 32-bar piece that would reflect this :D]
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Ever heard of a book with zero letter Eβs? Meet Gadsby, a 50,000-word lipogram where John Gadsby tries to save his townβall without using βtheβ! π€― If quirky writing challenges are your thing, check out Ella Minnow Pea or 26 Degrees.
Have you read a lipogram before? #Bookskyππ #Lipogram #QuirkyReads
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"I Sit, I Rise" (lipogram)
I sit.
I recite rites.
Is it #esoteric?
Is it erotic?
I rise to reset iris.
I rise to retire rose.
To recite rites esoteric,
I sit erotic.
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#vss365 #poetry #lipogram
"esoteric" alternates vowel-consonant; so does this poem with the additional lipogram constraint
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Wonderful #lipogram #haiku, Nat! (with title implied)
I prefer to call it a #letterbank #poem (because lipogram usually means avoiding certain letters while letter bank means including just the bank letters) but lipogram is an accepted poetic term and letter bank is a lesser-known wordplay term.
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reach, ache, arch, ache, cha-cha, cheer!
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#7syllablesentence (reach) #lipogram
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or alternatively, "Can Can dance cadence needed"
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#7syllablesentence (dance) #lipogram
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dance cadence needed --- Can Can!
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#7syllablesentence (dance) #lipogram
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redeem a dream, dread a mare
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#7syllablesentence (dream) #lipogram
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DANGER! DANGER!
Deranged, angered, and enraged gander near #garden!
Need gear, a grande dagger, and Ranger Andre.
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#vss365 #lipogram
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#palindrome #lipogram
sworn words drown rows
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Dear Andre,
A rune near a reddened dune read: "Dare an end run? End near an urn."
dun dun dun ...
Need an errand run:
> endure a rude, undead nun
> reread rune near dune
> read rare, #unread rune near dead end
> run!
> end near endeared aura, nude
- Eduard Duane: "Dude"
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#vss365 #lipogram
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Food Poisoning --- #lipogram
#Idle dill?
Did deli lie?
I did die ill.
Deli did lie.
Idle dill did deed.
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#vss365
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Church rush hour occurs,
Couch-orcs, or such, scorch, crush cross
Hush! Our #chorus shoos
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#vss365 #haiku #lipogram
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