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, rob, he nabs

beet red blood if I bleed 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, nip

a parrot

a fast fort, blast

his roils

a bod fit in a bed

his rod can go

in a pistol in Lisbon

feel near, net

vast Briton

go I west

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The Wandering Lawyer

I find a reed, leg, co-sign good lot 

greet: "am a groot" 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, saw

I willed, I mind meld, grind, can learn

I get mad as I got

can let his be as I wander 

as ranges

moor, soil, sod

kind glades

be a pond