The Garden of Discordia

I'm thinking of handing in the latest creative writing prompt for school in some neat shape. It's a short (for once!) poem, so I think that would work.

But does anyone know any shortcut to use, if you want the words/letters to arrange themselves in shapes without actually sitting and playing around with space and tab for hours?

I do, alas, not own Photoshop but have GIMP...

So we are writing things for school now, as a small parallel course to the whole "reading literature through the ages" we have.

The first excersise was to write a text either as an intertext to Virgina Woolf's A room of ones own, or as a missing scene from Lysistrate, or in a Biblical style or on hexameter but about a modern topic. Since my sense of rythm and poetry is a big fat zero, I knew it wouldn't be the last. But the idea of writing something in a Biblical style (with my admittedly rather shallow understanding of what that is, 's not like I'd done exhaustive studies of the thing before that one lecture on the subject) appealed to me. I was still full with the Good Student Motivation that I usually am at the beginning of term ^_^; and so I finished the rough draft right after class.

Now, a few weeks later, I'm sitting here having just finished writing the second excersise - a dramatic text (2-3 persons speaking) with an AABB rhyme scheme - and we have to hand it in the day after tomorrow... It also sucks bigtime right now, which probably comes from the fact that I can't rhyme for shit and also I'm really not used to writing dramatic scenes. Ah well, perhaps I shall manage to polish it up tomorrow

But anyway. That was a lot of talk about nothing in general - I thought I'd post the first text, which I actually spent some considerable amount of time on. It's in Swedish of course

( Berättelsen om Isa )

As a last footnote, the story (such as it is) is based on the story of my own family, of my own history, although of course very ~allegorical~ and whatnot. Names have been modified to protect the guilty.

Y'all are also missing out on my nicely formatted two-column layout which is a damn shame considering I spent at least two hours removing words and fiddling with things until it finally fit -_-