Shapes of poetry

Here is a nice site that can turn your writing texts into  shapes, you can have spirals, waves, mazes and banners, here are some examples:

http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/#2,0

The Big Triangle (COMICS)

In Scott McCloud’s book "Understanding Comics"   you will find his observations about what comics are and as we are interested in shapes to convey meanings and ideas here is the author's  BIG TRIANGLE -
The link is a ppt with the author's explanations. 

http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/triangle/index.html

Geometric Poetry

How to create "geometric" poems using online tools ?
Come creare poesie "geometriche usando strumenti online? 
This is an interesting tool: an automatic  square generator, six lines with six words based on Lewis Carrol's style, CLICK AND TRY

SQUARE-POEM-GENERATOR

My Square Poem

I	often	play	Candy Crush	I	curse it
often	hate	wherever	I	saw it	first
play	wherever	stupid	really	such	game
Candy Crush	I	really	feel	imprisoned	in it
I	saw it	such	imprisoned	be kind	free
curse it	first	game	in it	free	me

POEM COLLAGE

Poem Collage is a tool that gives you the opportunity to write your 

own poem and then clicking  on the GENERATE button to obtain 

a series of draggable lines you can rearrange as you want. You can 

also use it to recreate a poem.

POEM COLLAGE

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.