What follows are student-created poems which began as "nonsense poems" written using at least eight words which the students did not know. After the students discovered the real meanings of the words they had previously used solely for their sound and/or associative values, they had to then reconstruct a poem using words related to the original terms' actual meanings, and within the universe of their creations, these poems needed to make sense.
Here's my example, and following in the comments, their creations.
Poem one:
orgeat kerfs
dibble in
samisen tondo,
plagal the mesic
illuviation, and
berk in agamic
euphorbia.
Poem two (the revision based on actual word meanings)
Paint this:
on a banjo's
circular face,
a syrup of sweet
almond
seeking slits and
holes,
infusing the pitch,
suspended
in moist foolishness,
in the midst of asexual shrubs.
