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"Found poems" are poems with text taken from non-poetic texts, like advertising slogans or instructions on TV dinners. The text can be arranged in any form, and one's own ideas can even be put into the text to create something entirely different.
For instance, one poet took first lines from a bunch of different books to create her found poem. Another took lines from Vincent Van Gogh's letters and inserted his own ideas to create a very melancholy work.
I have written my own found poem. Please try to guess where it came from before you click the spoiler link.
Absentee Ballot
I can’t keep a man in my life but
I'll be at your altar
in living color, breaking into pieces.
With your worries in this sweet cesspool
may God forgive you and forgive me too.
I sit on the balcony and watch people go by one a time
maybe they respond better to face to face contact.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again
when I look in the mirror.
I'm looking for a sounder way of living
when I propose to take a residence
Just turn off the lights and leave
snow will cover my footsteps.
That's my department
it will never fade from memory that can still be recalled
by something as remote as this statement.
A rainy day sort of game
just a collection of matter and molecules
reaching for the horizon, the truth behind the mystery.
Math is the language of these laws
you can be very certain that this is not your fault
but you can answer yes.
Every single phrase in this poem (each different line) was taken from people's suicide notes. Some are famous, most are not.
For instance, one poet took first lines from a bunch of different books to create her found poem. Another took lines from Vincent Van Gogh's letters and inserted his own ideas to create a very melancholy work.
I have written my own found poem. Please try to guess where it came from before you click the spoiler link.
Absentee Ballot
I can’t keep a man in my life but
I'll be at your altar
in living color, breaking into pieces.
With your worries in this sweet cesspool
may God forgive you and forgive me too.
I sit on the balcony and watch people go by one a time
maybe they respond better to face to face contact.
I feel certain that I'm going mad again
when I look in the mirror.
I'm looking for a sounder way of living
when I propose to take a residence
Just turn off the lights and leave
snow will cover my footsteps.
That's my department
it will never fade from memory that can still be recalled
by something as remote as this statement.
A rainy day sort of game
just a collection of matter and molecules
reaching for the horizon, the truth behind the mystery.
Math is the language of these laws
you can be very certain that this is not your fault
but you can answer yes.
Every single phrase in this poem (each different line) was taken from people's suicide notes. Some are famous, most are not.