Doing a project for a class, and I figured this'd be as good a place to post it as any.
I did a randomized poem of the chapter "Solitude", from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
It was very simple to take sentences I found interesting from the chapter, then shuffle them about. What I found most interesting, however, was how, for all the times I randomized the positioning of sentences, the core thought that Thoreau has on being lonely stays the same.
I don't know that this is truly a "randomly generated poem" as the source material was selected and selected from. Generally, when a poem (or part of the poem anyway) is constructed out of stuff that one has not written themselves, it's called a "found poem". People have differing opinions of the merits of found poetry, but personally I think it's as valid as anything else. The ending is nice.
That's actually something I'm going to be discussing in the assignment. As defined by my professor, this is "randomly generated". But I'm curating what goes into the generator. So the flow of the text may be random, but the meaning is still constructed by the writer, making it not that random at all.
I wanted to do a program, but I've got so much stuff to do that it would be a bad use of time. So I found this and inputed the sentences line by line. You should, I'd like to see what other people come up with. Or if you end up writing a program, I'd like to check that out too.