Love for Nothing found in ‘Le Monocle de Mon Oncle’ a poem by Wallace Stevens I mocked myself alone, A thinking stone In a sea of spuming thoughts. A bird sought out his choir Of wind, wet and wing, A much-crumpled thing: The end of love For nothing. Apples, like skulls, Came rotting to […]
Tag: Found Poetry
For those of you who enjoyed Hitchcock or The Twilight Zone
Sinister Situations What lurks behind Boarded up Windows Of the decrepit house On your street Or down your lane? As you pass The Victorian Asylum, Can you hear The crackling voltage Of the insane Or the whispering Of the dead? The magic shop On the high street, With its heavy duty Padlock and chain Reminds […]
What is found poetry?
There is a variety of techniques you can use to create found poetry: You can take an existing fiction or non-fiction text and erase bits of it, leaving selected words and phrases that form a new text – a poem; You might select words and phrases from a text and rearrange them any way you […]
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