Poets Online: Line Generator Tools
If you’re a poet, or even if you’re not, the Muse can elude even the best of us at times. If you’ve been following me for any period of time, you know I’m fond of all kinds of generators for inspiration. Although most of my current writing is fiction, my first love was Poetry and I still write poetry from time to time. Today, I felt like putting my poet’s hat on, the one with the jaunty feather, and sharing a cool line generator I found.
Clicking this link, Poets Online, will take you to the Poets Online website and specifically to the First Line Generator. There is a version two of the generator as well, if you’re interested in that. However, clicking the button that says ‘Click here to generate a line’ will result in a line of text being displayed in the box. The line of text is intended to be used as the first line of your poem or as inspiration for your poem.
Here’s the line I got the first time I clicked the button:
For some reason, I imagined astronauts in the 1960s going on their mission to the moon. I”m not sure where that came from, but here’s what I wrote:
Beyond
Before the moment of our imagination
the men journey,
Their feet echoing hollowly
and leaving no mark on
sterile floors
The journey, the mission
one to share and not own
Amid inky night and
burning flames
One step for man
watched by all
dreamed by all.
Returning, a fallen angel
a return to grace
Under a cloudless sky
Happy Writing!
~ Eileen 🙂