by Jessica Fox-Wilson
It’s everywhere, clogging up our email boxes, littering our precious blog comment areas, even sneaking up on us at work. The subject lines scream at us, entice us, beg us to read. If you pay attention to spam long enough, you begin to notice the language. Believe it or not, there are really interesting words hiding in our spam.
For this week’s Read Write (Word) Prompt, I invited the Wordle Word Bank group to check their spam filters and fish out the best words. Group members Liam, Nathan and Joanne provided the spammy words in this week’s image.
Now it’s your turn to play. Use as many (or as few) of the spam-inspired words to create a spam poem all your own. Then, come back here next Thursday to share your masterpiece with the rest of us. In the meantime, we can use the comments here to discuss the post.
If you want to join in the word fun, head on over to the Wordle Word Bank to donate some words. I’ll continue to post theme forums for upcoming Read Write (Word) prompts.
Happy writing! 
Jessica Fox-Wilson is a senior contributor and columnist for Read Write Poem. Her work includes the Read Write (Word) Prompts every month and the Just One (Book) Thing column. Visit her at her blog, Everything Feeds Process.
This looks interesting. I guess some people get their spam in English. Most of mine has looked like Russian lately. I’ve never seen “vowelized” or “cosmoramic” before. Should be fun.
This is going to lead to juicy poems. I can just tell.
Wow, these words must be from intellectual spammers, maybe PhDs with nothing to do seeking Wordle excitement. Most of the spams I get are from Nigerian retards and “I’m lonely tonight bimbos.” Croak! Dana, don’t know about juicy however the transitive verb ‘vowelized’, yes. This could really be cosmoramic.
Rallentanda replied:
October 10th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Looking forward to reading about Nigerian retards and I’m lonely tonight bimbos in your poem about spam.Interesting use of the words in your comment. You’re such a cunning little linguist Donald!
Donald Harbour replied:
October 10th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I’m thinking about a spammer cryptogram where I use the words but you don’t know they are there until you figure out the crypt. ;-} How about you Rall?
Rallentanda replied:
October 10th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Ms Smarty Pants Rall knocked hers over in ten minutes using all the words in a micro poem.
I have sonnets going thru my mind at the moment.
Don’t forget Donald Mrs Stevens is expecting a
sonnet from you on Thursday.
What amazing spammers you have. I suspect cheating, although I have seen some chelation as I toss things in my circular file
barbara_y replied:
October 12th, 2009 at 2:52 am
You know, I may have gone round the bend on this one.
Lots of good action words in this ~ raiding the spam filter was a good idea!
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I have finally overcome my blogphobia.
http://rallentanda.blogspot.com
rallentanda replied:
October 13th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Oh but I don’t know how to link it so I could have saved my self the bother.
Do you have to build a poem around the words, or it is acceptable to just sort of leap off one?
Deb Scott replied:
October 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
You can do whatever you want with the words & use one, a few or all of them. (You can also use none of them — we’re just happy you want to write some poetry!)
I feel absolutely dreadful about writing all those hate poems about computer cowboys.I’m ripping them all up.Thankyou to the computer fairy for fixing this link for me.
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