SING
I decided to leave.
Disappear with a dry biscuit
and freedom.
Stick my head in a nightgale wilderness,
and burst by throat
in song.
Oh god, my secrets.
Images are copyright and not to used without permission, which I willingly give when asked, and when not for commercial use. (found on pgs 32-34) Wounded by Love, The Life and Wisdom of St Porphyrious, First published in English 2005. ISBN 978-960-7120-19-9. A concise explanation of Found Poetry and Dadaism can be read at Found Poetry
How is found poetry different from erasure poetry?
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That’s like how is an orange different from a fruit. 🥰 Erasure is a form of found poetry. There’s remix; inverted where you mine backwards in the source; numerical where you count words or lines or paragraphs; there’s also taking pages and cutting them up, shuffling and rearranging them. It’s endless. It’s all about creating new poems from existing text.
Oh. I see. Thanks.
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I agree. 😂
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Start thinking about your source book as it makes a huge difference in the result. A friend of mine is using The Haunting of Hill House as her source material. She’s using the erasure technique using an overlay layer. Pop over to https://wetweatherspring.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/finding-hill-house-14/ and see what marvels can be done.
Sort of like Mosaic poetry, then? 🙂 I can barely pull off straight-on poetry without mixing and matching!
https://rolandyeomans.blogspot.com/2023/10/to-inherit-your-own-past.html
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Not quite, Roland. 🥰 A mosaic rhyme is a type of feminine or dactylic rhyme that occurs when a polysyllabic word rhymes with two or more words. When one or two short words, such as “know” and “it,” are pieced together to rhyme with a single word, such as “poet,” it is called a mosaic rhyme, sometimes also called a compound rhyme.
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