Found Poetry Exercises
Ex 01:
Pastische with 3 texts
A Transfiguration With The All: Free Verse:
John Daleiden
The Ascent into Higher Realms: Free Verse:
Bernard Gieske
Abducted: Free Verse:
Karina Klesko
Salt and Peppered with Observations: Rengay: Karina Klesko
Quixotisms of "X": Rengay: Karina Klesko
Untitled: Prose Poem: Shanna Baldwin Moore
The Physics of Rainbows:
Three-person Rengay:
Linda Papanicolaou
Five questions children ask to which I say, "Now that's a good
question!"
Neal Whitman
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Neal Whitman
Free Verse
Five questions
children ask to which I say,
"Now that's a good question!"
Why is the
moon sometimes out during the day?
It rose into the sky
in a circle
a beacon of experimental performance
while the sun shone brightly.
A circular rift of a clear sky
and through it there blazed the full moon.
Why is the sky blue?
So wonderful a manifestation.
A deep bright blue!
Thought flashed upon me.
The attempts to account
for this phenomenon are almost
elegiac.
Will we ever discover aliens?
Look out into the distance.
Do you hear anything?
Exalting through a microphone
he held up one of his fingers,
as if to say 'listen!'
Hope arose.
How much does the Earth weigh?
After making several guesses
I became possessed with the keenest curiosity.
When we weighed
we seldom made a miscalculation.
The rock rocked,
the lightest feather.
How do airplanes stay up?
As if by magic
the sense of falling had ceased.
Flying!
Dizzying and exhausting flight.
Arms simulating ocean waves
beyond the belt of vapor.
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Poe: Text 1 Karina
History of the World:
Text 2 Neal
Easy Answers: Text 3
John
Pastisched: non-highlighted: to tie the texts
together
Neal Whitman
Free Verse
Five questions
children
ask to which I say,
"Now that's a good question!"
Why is the
moon sometimes out during the day?
It roseÉ
into the sky
in a circle Ð
a beacon of experimental performance
while the sun shone brightly.
A circular rift of a clear sky
and through it there blazed
the full moon.
Why is the sky blue?
So wonderful a manifestation.
A deep bright blue!
Thought flashed upon me.
The attempts to account
for this phenomenon are
almost
elegiac.
Will we ever discover aliens?
Look out into the distance.
Do you hear anything?
Exalting through a microphone
he
held up one of his fingers,
as if to say 'listen!'
Hope arose.
How much does the Earth weigh?
After making several guesses
I became possessed with the keenest curiosity.
When we weighed
we seldom made a miscalculation.
The rock rocked,
the lightest feather.
How do airplanes stay up?
As if by magic
the sense of falling had ceased.
Flying!
Dizzying and exhausting flight.
Arms simulating ocean waves
beyond the belt of vapor.
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