Dylan Thomas: Random poem generator

Dylan Thomas writing

Ever fancied being able to write like Dylan? Sadly we can't offer you literary greatness, but our random poem generator might help a little.

Last updated: 06 November 2008

And heartily he goes dying
Into the cloudy eyes,
Streaking while they walk
Loudly in the blinded kings

And slowly the street of the leaves
Love proudly in praise of the bottle
Crested while they kiss
Savagely into the webfoot horses

Click here to generate another poem

It's said that if an infinite number of monkeys were each given typewriters for an infinite number of years, they'd come up with the complete works of William Shakespeare. We wondered if the same would apply to the works of Dylan Thomas.

However, being sceptical about the idea of monkey literature, we looked instead for a more efficient way to amuse ourselves. And so the Dylan Thomas random poem generator was born.

Simply hit the link to make a new poem, which will appear below. We can't guarantee it'll make sense, but the results can certainly be interesting!


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