Vocabularyclept poetry was first proposed in 1969 by Word Ways editor Howard Bergerson.
A. Lindon, who, without having consulted Bergerson's original, produced an entirely different poem also titled "Winter Retrospect".
[2][3] Both poems are 24 lines long and contain 478 words, and have been subject to several literary and statistical analyses.
Grow with the wind's lonely music, my soul, riving Bland aspirations split with the blast up in the eaves, And I shall remember only that the mind, though failing, weaves Tinsel in darkness, memory a kaleidoscope, floss That soundless flies, musk rose, and all that nearly was,[2] Many vocabularyclept poems by Lindon and others appeared in later issues of Word Ways.
[6][7] A variation on the idea of rearranging an existing vocabulary into a poem was independently discovered by Dave Kapell.