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Concrete Poetry*
 
The Onomatopoeia Tornado
 
Hold on to your head head hold on to hell–p duck in the
doorway No NOT quack quack duck, kids duck down
in the door way! meeOW meeOW WoooooOOF
WooooooOOf Patch stay! I’ll hold your cc collar
meeOW I’m coming Fluff! STOP scratching
your claws! STOP I said look!!! The tree
it’s cc coming CRASH CRASHing glass
window HELL–P my God can you see
bulls outside bellow bellow? th th
thunder run with cows all of you
Mooooo Mooooo Pleeeeease
move cows go Buttercup go
keep with the cattle
it’s a whorled dust
devil ROARing as
a freight train
Oooooooo
but it’s
turned
really
turned
gone
phew
sob
blue
light
safe
thank
God!
sniff
we
are
safe!


 

 

*Concrete PoetryConcrete poetry or Size poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.

It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has evolved to have distinct meaning of its own, but which shares the distinction of being poetry in which the visual elements are as important as the text.

Wikipedia; See also:
Little Black Book Guidelines, § 6

 

 

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