Cipher Poetry

 Inspired by The Xenotext, I wrote my own cipher poetry. These two poems are ciphers of each other, using a symmetric cipher.

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The Pirates

A mast I loot. He nabs food, oils,

in wool a garrot

am a rot, a maggot, a vat. 

I rail as fast wild wind I rip, rend, fix a mast

blow, pelt, hissed coil, his roils rain, rigor.

A parrot I caw, a blast. 

I rob a fast fort.

`Tis blob, dot, mass of Calif. gold. 

His rod can go, 

a pin in cannon,

in a pistol.

At post near Lisbon

go I west.

Vast Briton  sees `em net. 

Feel near a reef, a port, sop ales.

I mix bros fees,

beet red blood if I bleed.

A bod fit in a bed I saw.

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The Wandering Lawyer

I find a reed, co-sign

meet, earn as peer. 

I billed if I led, I fibbed, I kid 

a liar in mind part past a law. 

Lost, may I find,

grep word, cannot hear, can learn, lias, label.

I willed a hip, I grind a leg,

I mind meld Dan, Greg, Ted, Finn, Em, Hiram, Bert 

can let his be.

I was as hisses . 

as I wander,

I'd wend soil ranges:

be a pond,

kind glades, 

noon of sod, 

moor soil I loom. 

I weld new iron

a fay glen moon.

Good lot. 

Greet: "am a Groot."

I get mad as I got a nip.