fairandcold

I get writing ideas/prompts from some random websites and I thought this was interesting. Try it out.


Using any famous poem, replace the adjectives the author uses with synonyms from a thesaurus. How is the poem different?


My example follows it.

Original Edition

Here we go round the prickly pear
prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
For Thine is the kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.







Revised Edition

Here we go round the bristly pear
Bristly pear bristly pear
Here we go round the bristly pear
At five o'clock in the morning
Between the idea
And the realityBetween the motion
And the act
Falls the shadow
For Thine is the kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is awfully long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.