Attempt at found poetry

[with_rainfall]

Found poetry is a type of poetry where, instead of creating an original poem, you take a non-poetic source - like a newspaper article or a grammar guide or a non-fiction book - and then change the form and perhaps the content to make it into poetry, while still retaining the original meaning. It can also be taken from other poems, but I'm guessing

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[with_rainfall]

Actually, all of them were taken from the article. Yeah, copying straight from someone else's work is definitely something I'm rather uncertain about. ;)

I find it really good as an exercise/experiment, though. And it's fun! Doesn't put as much pressure on me as original poetry does.

[with_rainfall]

True. :P But here's a link you might find interesting (look at the comment about the guy who wrote the play): http://www.omniglot.com/blog/?p=478

I don't know if it's quite the same thing, but there's no reason it couldn't work. :)

[with_rainfall]

Fair enough. XD I suppose oh-so-reliable Wikipedia isn't the best resource, either.

But maybe if you took your lines from newspapers or poems or other works of fiction, it could work?Depending on the source material and the length of the prose? Or am I just grasping at straws here? ;)

It's an intriguing idea (weird, though). Poetry or flash fiction would definitely be much easier than, say, a short story.
*shakes head* This whole genre just boggles my mind ^_^

[with_rainfall]

Yes, I think so. :)