As promised in yesterday's post, more poems! These are done in the same erasure technique, from the same book. I wish I could scan and paste pictures of the pages themselves, but it just isn't possible. Maybe some day.

Alright, here we go:

Like those ancient people they had beauty
the man had the laughing, sparkling, musical manner
and swing of the ( Read more... )

I believe I made one post before this regarding a new (well, new to me) poetry technique called "erasure" or "cross out" poems. I took a copy of The Egoist by George Meredith that I had to read for one of my university courses (not my favourite book, five minutes worth of plot drawn out into 425 pages, but there are some good words and phrases in ( Read more... )

A while ago, I discovered a new way to write poetry. You take a novel (in this case one of the ones from a university English course which I have no intention of reading ever again) and either black out the words you don't want, or highlight the words you do want. I chose to highlight, because the black marker bled through the page too much. You ( Read more... )

Hello,

I don't know if anyone will ever read this journal, except perhaps my friend who encouraged me to create it. I signed up for livejournal several months ago, but only recently have I had any courage to actually make a move to post something.

I was introduced to livejournal through a conversaton I had with a friend regarding poetry. We were ( Read more... )