Japanese Writing Game

The other day I came across a piece of paper with a "poem" I'd written over a year ago. It was for the Japanese Writing Game for one of my Sparkpeople teams.



The game goes like this. Write down a word. The next word begins with the last letter of the first word. And so on. You can create a "rule" for yourself that decides when the poem is done. Something like, "ending with the letter n" or "repeating the first word". But you don't have to.



When I did these, I had no ending rule. I wasn't trying to write great poetry (or even good poetry). I thought it was fun playing with words just for the sake of playing with words. I didn't edit or plan. I'd just sit for five minutes, put one word after another, and write until I felt done. Here's the poem I found:



Cows
so
overjoyed
dance
energetically,
yellow
wildflowers
soar,
rallying,
gathered
down
near
rust
torn
nettles,
sowed
deep,
prim
meadows.



As you can see, this game is just for sillyness so I think anyone can do it, whether you consider yourself a "writer" or not.


I went back and found a few others I wrote. I like this one too:

Petals
swiftly
yield
down,
nestled,
deep
places
slit
the
eastern
Napa
air.
Run
now
wind.





Anyone wanna play??? (You don't have to play to comment though.) ;)