Welcome to Day 20 of my personal month-late NaPoWriMo challenge. You can check out my previous post here, or click here for Day 1.
Prompt 20: Found Poetry
Have you heard of found poetry before? Maybe tried it? If you aren’t sure what it is, Wikipedia explains it pretty well. Here’s their definition:
Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the original.
For today’s poem, I’m trying found poetry, which I haven’t really tried before. There are lots of places to look for your words. Try your junk mail. A newspaper. An old book you have lying around. A billboard. A sign at a restaurant. If it has words, it could potentially fuel a poem. Copy and paste from my blog or something. I really don’t mind. Just…do it and see what happens!
If you try this, or any of the prompts I’m sharing throughout this month, let me know! If you try a prompt on your blog, share the link! I’ll check it out.
I also love to read any thoughts or writing tips you may have. Feel free to share them in the comments!
Happy Friday!
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