Found Poetry

[somerled]

Let's talk about found poetry!

A few days ago, I submitted a piece to Rattle editor Tim Green's (timiathan's) Found Poetry Project. Here are the relevant links:

• to the poem I found, formatted, and submitted
• to the rules of the project

I wrote more about Tim's Found Poetry Project at Secret Vespers, my webcomic, which I am none so subtly plugging. Found

Comments

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[trachea]

I'm so excited that you shared this! I had no idea it existed.

I've been trying to turn a particular email from my dad into a poem with little success, but I loved it, weirdly poetic and sweet, so I've added line breaks even though the whole thing doesn't really add up to a complete poem (unfortunately):

quite a dream ------>
i remember you & i
dropping rose off at casino
& doing our own safari trip
------->mini-golf
----->bumper boats
----->little raceway,
where i told the operator we couldn't get any speed
& he said go again using this other car
& we did & we really zipped into the turns
& were hanging on.---->'oh boy!!!'

black holes of course are so dense
light cannot escape,
hence 'black holes',
& the rascals gobble up whole star clusters,
etc.

this is a quick letter
for i'm heading for run
early before this heatwave continues on.
"hi Andrew"
mind your cold
love,

"Warningg!"

[cimeara]

This is too easy! I'm getting a new bunch of spam these days that has random lines of book text, and much of it I could submit without any change at all. This one has had only minnor changes:

Warning

All this I have always particularly desired,
the wont of people who climb mountains.
Speak of the same to me, Bhishma said.
An understanding by mahadeva's boons,
the very sovereignty of the understandings,
and hearts are divested of every--

Orignal by "Sherfield Reopell" :-)

[jeff2001]

Forgotten film star Florence
Lawrence,
once known as "The Imp Girl,"
committed suicide by swallowing
ant paste
in 1938
at the age of 52.

--from http://www.alternativereel.com/includes/articles/display_article.php?id=00035