Poetry echoes with vengeance,
Bifurcated lamentations against mortals
Full of dirty melt water.
You tuned the whippoorwills,
we felt larger than life,
huddled together under the blustery illusion.
There’s no exit,
infinite stillness;
weighted gates have slammed rusted shut.
Catch the tears of a sinful angel
ominous beauty
with subtle return.
The waves can’t reach you.
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This is a found poem.
As I scroll through the WordPress blog reader a few moments ago, certain phrases or lines jump out at me, so today I scribed them, and then re-arranged the bits to make something new and interesting. The challenge is that I can only use the bits I found. What do you think?
Shawn L. Bird 
Nice. Be sure and do it again! A blog had a Poetry challenge like that once, but with book spines aligned to create a poem. It was suggested that links or credits to all works be added at the bottom.
I can’t say I have ever seen a found poem with credits!
I usually do this as a the first poetry assignment with my high school students, only they submit song lyrics. We slice up all the lines, stir them all together and then each kid gets a handful of lines to re-assemble. They get really excited about it, and it produces some really fun poetry.
Looks great Shawn 😉 Thanks for visiting my blog…. I’m following yours now 😉
Glad to have you!
I LIKE! I may have to try this too…
You definitely should! Thanks for stopping by.
Skilfully done, and an interesting experiment! The dice are loaded, though, against coming up with something which will be as meaningful as a crafted poem.
I don’t know, whenever I have done anything like this, it always works out. Be brave and give it a try! 🙂
A bit onerous for me, ‘coz I am a rhyming fanatic. Finding rhyming lines would REALLY be a challenge! 🙂
I have had an occasional student, determined that a poem isn’t a poem unless it rhymes, manage to successfully put together a rhyming poem from handfuls of song lyrics, but it definitely takes some time!
Very clever – the whole thing read as so complete and within itself it’s really intresting to hear how you wrote it. Very impressive! 🙂
Thanks! There’s another version of the same up April 8. See if you like it as much, less, or more! 🙂