Found Poetry Exercise 2
Participants
Neal Whitman
/NW
Shanna Baldwin Moore /SBM
Linda Papanicolau /LP
Karina Klesko /KK
Dragons at the Door: Haibun
Daylily - Following the Sun
Daylily - Following the Sun - White
Daylily - Following the Sun - Black
Sijo / Korean Song: Proverbs
Bernard Gieske /BG
Tribute To
Jean Ritchie: Free Verse
John Daleiden /JD
The Interloper Journeys From Page to Page
A Night At The Opera: Incremental Line Increase
Judith Gorgone
/JG
as big as life: Free Verse
Craig
Tigerman
Objects
in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
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Bernard
Gieske: Exercise 2: Two sources in a Found Poem
Tribute To
Jean Ritchie
Free Verse
KILLY
KRANKY IS MY SONG
sing and dance it all day long
over the hills and over the mountains
there’s a place on this earth that is dearer to me
only you would know where that would be
As I went out walking one morning in May
where THE FAIR WINDS ARE BLOWING,
are blowing today
there I met a lady so sweet and so fair
then you took my hand, we laughed and talked
together
we shared the warmth of the day together
how I love you in these mountains
how I love you in the spring
my Love had never a chance to grow old
it was just beginning to unfold
The truth to tell you, I’ll tell
if you mind and listen a spell
I never could do without you ––
I still love your slow music
My love will follow, follow — you
I needed you to keep me sweet company
your voice was so sweet to me
to know your love and still feel you in my arms
to converse with me and sing me a song
on the banks of that little green river so warm
As you were sleeping last night
I’ve been a-wanderin’ all the night
I quietly slipped away into the light.
I am walking with the clouds today
Visit that place which is dearer to me
There you can hear the soft wind –– sighing
For I am one with the cloud and wind
There you can hear the sound of my heart crying.
The Fair Winds are calling, they are calling you to
me
I have just arrived and am new at this
but it is you –– I already miss
heavenly I was granted one last wish
and am dreaming of my one – my absent love
sure love is fine and love is sure
loving you in heaven will be my cure
where we can see the stars all singin’ together
for the sweetest song I know is here
in this garden so fair, this garden so free
where we can sing and dance it all day long
I know how you hate the BLACK WATERS
that run down through the land
and the scenes of destruction on every land
I wish for you I could gather flowers
I hope you can see that rainbow shine
when they break out the golden sunshine
THE FAIR WINDS are calling, calling for you
for I am yearning, yearning for you
until you can say FAREWELL TO THE MOUNTAINS
here you belong I know to be certain
I’m going a-walking to feel the joys of spring
to see the waters a-gliding, hear the nightingale
sing
to the place that is dearer to me
heaven’ll help me just wait there for me
*Jean Ritchie
was born in Viper, Kentucky just southeast of Hazard in
eastern Kentucky where the Appalachian Mountains are and
where coal mining is primary.
Resources:
1 -
Killy Kranky Is
My Song
2 - Wild Horses
3 - The High Hills And Mountains
4 - See The Waters A Glidin’
5 - The Fair
Winds Are Blowing
6 - The Flowers Of Joy
7 - Sweet Reason
8 - Hiram Hubbard
9 - Over The River To Feed My Sheep
10 - Let Go Of Me Summer
11 - Thousand Miles Blues
12 - Cold Mountains
13 - One More Mile
14 - Cloud Rambler (poem)
15 - Sorrow In The Wind
16 - One I Love
17 - The Red Rose And The White
18 - With Kitty I’ll Go
19 - Farewell To
The Mountains
20 - Now Is The Cool Of The Day
21 - Black
Waters
22 - The Flowers Of Joy
23 - See That Rainbow Shine
24 - Words Of Love
Bernard's comments:
Here is my
Tribute To Jean Ritchie, as published by poetfreak. I
used titles and verses from her music. At the beginning
I give an explanation which explains how I composed the
poem and tried to document my sources. At the time I
wrote this I had never heard of found poems. The purpose
of my documentation was to make it clear to the reader
what was mine and what Jean Ritchie was responsible for.
Once again, poetfreak does not keep italics or bold
letters. For those not reading the poem, I decided to
capitalize all the song titles to distinquish them from
the rest of the words (in yellow highlight on the list
of song titles above). In my original I italicized those
verses which came from some of her songs. In some cases
I inserted additional words inside verses. The italics
would have been able to make this kind of distinction.
In my original I used superscripts to show where each
verse came from and then listed the information at the
end. Since all the verses and titles were from her
music, I concluded that it really didn't matter much to
someone simply wanting to read the poem as to where any
particular verse could be found. I finally decided just
to list all the songs which I used afterward.
The posting
at poetfreak can be read at this link:
http://www.poetfreak.com/text/20187/tribute-to-jean-ritchie.html
Jean Ritchie
was a popular folk singer during the last decade. She
grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky where coal
mining predominated. I incorporated titles of her songs,
which are capitalized, and verses from her songs. I also
included numbers in my original poem but which are also
not included here, to indicate which song the verses I
used came from. A list of all the songs I used can be
found at the end.
Published March 12, 2010
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Bernard Gieske: Exercise 2: Two sources in a Found Poem
Tribute To
Jean Ritchie: Free Verse
The Task: Write a found Poem using any two
or more sources selected by the author.
Be sure to identify your
sources; for each source include title, author, publisher,
and / or an on-line link if one is available.
Title your poem.
Be sure to save a copy of
your poem to your own computer; then post to the
foundpoetrystudio.
Definition Material:
From
Poets.org:
Found poems take existing
texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as
poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is
often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti,
speeches, letters, or even other poems.
and
from
Wikipedia:
Found poetry is a type of
poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole
passages from other sources and re-framing them as poetry by
making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently
meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or
deletions. The resulting poem can be defined as either
treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or
untreated (verbatim): virtually unchanged from the order,
syntax and meaning of the original.
Posting / Submission:
Post to the
foundpoetrystudio at this link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foundpoetrystudio/
- click post
- select rich-text
format
- paste in your
document or type in your document
- format your document
- PROOF READ YOUR
DOCUMENT -- this is very important!
- send your document
- respond to feedback
List of Resources:
The Found Poetry Review:
an on-line journal
http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/about
This
quarterly on-line journal provides good definitions of
"found poetry", examples, and a fair use standard.
They publish found poetry,
centos, erasure poems and other forms that incorporate
elements of existing texts.
Read Examples of Found
Poems:
The Found Poetry Review:
http://www.foundpoetryreview.com/fall-2011
Sketchbook: A
Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms:
Found Poem Contest
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