Poetry instruments

popple

Made from, and around, the public domain.

popple, v. Of water: to ripple, to tumble in small waves.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

John Keats, the epitaph he chose, 1821

How it goes

Begin with a text
Every instrument starts from words that belong to everyone: books, poems and letters in the public domain.
Work it
Cut it back, answer it, pass it on or shape it. Each instrument does one thing to a page, and does it well.
Keep it or share it
What you make is a link. No sign-in, no profile. Show it to whoever you like.

Blackout poetry from the public domain.

You: Black out words in a public-domain text until a poem is left, then save it.
From: A Project Gutenberg text, or your own: paste it, or add a .txt, .md, .pdf or .docx file or a web address.
The rule: Three stages of redaction, then a trim window. Fetched text is capped at 60,000 characters and uploads at 5 MB. The poem prints on one page.
Sharing: Anyone with the link can read it. Titled poems from public-domain texts join the gallery; poems from your own uploads stay link-only.

Public domain first
Source texts come from public-domain collections, credited to where they came from.
No accounts
Nothing to sign up for. Open an instrument and begin.
Your words, by link
Words you write are shared by link only, until you choose otherwise.