Found Poetry Exercises
Ex 01:
Verbatim Found Poem
Participants
Neal Whitman
/NW
A
Bottle of 2005 Pesquera...
Revel in Unusual Spike: Fibonacci
Shanna Baldwin Moore /SBM
Linda Papanicolau /LP
Tanka: on Douglas Adams Text
Haiku and Senryu
from a Spam List
Four Haiga Found Poems from the L. L. Bean 2012 Spring Catalogue
Karina Klesko /KK
Memoirs of a Southern Woman
Bernard Gieske /BG
John Daleiden /JD
Senyru from a Spam List
Judith
Gorgone /JG
Untitled:
in a letter from a Korean friend
Craig Tigerman
/CT
A
Dozen Favorites: Quatrain
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Exercise 1: Verbatim "Found Poem"
Quatrain
Craig Tigerman
Quatrain
A Dozen Favorites
Calmly we walk through this April's day
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips
and mine
Are you not weary of ardent ways
Come to me in the silence of the night
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills
Once when Mars was sliding backward slowly
She walks in beauty, like the night
My heart beating, my blood running
When I am dead, and over me bright April
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear
Sources and
Author Notes:
These are
first-lines of some of my favorite classic poems,
verbatim. I tried to
arrange them so as to evoke a poem of its own. Peace and
Blessings,
Message #153
of 552: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:53 pm
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Exercise 1: Verbatim "Found Poem"
A Dozen Favorites: Quatrain: Craig TigermAN
Definition Material:
How to create a Verbatim poem:
Take an excerpt from a written or verbal source and arrange it,
word for word, into lines. The source can be anything except an
existing poem or lyrics. Give details of the source so we know
it's real and can credit the source accurately.
Tips:
You may add punctuation where the original source is
unpunctuated (i.e. spoken or graphical sources).
If the excerpt contains private or personal information it is
better to disguise it (i.e. change names).
The word order should be as you found it, but you may exercise
poetic license in matters of style. For example:
- invent your
own title
- choose
whether or not to write numerals ('21') and symbols
('$') as words ('twenty-one', 'dollars')
- write
quotations in italics or "speech marks"
- choose
whether or not to capitalize each line beginning (some
do, most don't)
Posting / Submission:
Post your poem to the foundpoetryforum: Select Post at the
link below:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio/
Subject line: Verbatim + Author Name
For Example: Verbatim Joe Writer
Resources:
Verbatim: The Rules:
http://verbatimpoetry.blogspot.com/p/rules.html
Available in the foundpoetryforum Links:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio/links/VERBATIM__RULES_001326495518/
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