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posted June 10, 2014 09:58 PM            

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Have you guys ever done any found poetry?
I learned about it in an art journal group I am in. We learn different techniques to make pages in our journals, and one of them is found poetry. There are probably different ways of doing this, but the one we did was
you find a book.. pick out a page
and you go through the words and phrases and put a box around the ones you like,
then you paint over everything else on the page with black paint. What remains is your found poem. It's hella fun, give it a shot!
Here is mine...

I AM THE ONE

WHO LOVED THE UNKNOWN BITS

A SINGLE BREATHLESS MOMENT

I WOULD NOT CHANGE

VACANT SPACES

THE SOUTHERN SKIES

DESPERATION AND THE NEED

TO SAVOR

ALL THE SHARPENED MEMORIES OF IT

THIS HOT JULY NIGHT.

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posted June 10, 2014 10:23 PM            

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YOU PAINTED A BOOK.

I still have the scars from pulling the Chaldean Numerology card from "Star Signs."

Even though I use it to this very day.

I can't think what that might do to me inside.

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posted June 10, 2014 10:25 PM            

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That being said, I REALLY like the words you picked, and the Poem is very picturesque of the feelings.

Beautiful Work.

Makes me think of David LaFlamme

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Love,

Ellyn

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From: Love Street, she lingers long on Love Street..
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posted June 10, 2014 10:48 PM            

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haha, your post made me laugh!
YES I painted in a book, then ripped out RIPPED ELLYN, WITH FORCE the page and glued it into my journal

But it was a very sick book in very bad shape that I found in the free box at a garage sale last summer.

And I did the same thing with the Chaldean number insert! I was afraid to pull it out for many years, so I would copy the chart by hand and use that. Then one day it disappeared on it's own, so maybe it isn't meant for me to keep (but I do still have my hand written copy- and also nowadays you can get anything on internet, thank goodness!)

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posted June 10, 2014 10:54 PM            

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I had to laugh when I read it, what was it?

"Alright you Stubborn Taurus Bulls, I said Rip It Out --- NOW!"

Or something to that effect, cause I'm a Libra true, but a Double Bull Lurks within, and no, I did not take it out until SHEER FORCE pushed me to...

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posted June 10, 2014 10:56 PM            

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No, it was Capricorn Goats and Taurus Bulls, huh?

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posted June 17, 2014 04:06 AM            

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HA, yes! Linda knew what was coming, didn't she. What a fabulous insightful writer she was!

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posted July 03, 2014 08:34 AM            

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Loved your "found poem" Gypsee.. Thought I'd give it a try.

It was a resolutely frothy parade of silliness that read like what it was

Just the minute another person is drawn into someone's life there begin to arise undreamed of complexities

Such a simple beginning

Yet familiar phenomena as fêtes

Yellow shades for the windows, evasions, lethargy, candies, repetition of stories and anecdotes

Amid such silliness were some inspired non sequiturs

To kiss in dream is wholly pleasant, which in the mind, in exquisite taste, contributes

A small collection of light verse, drew illustrations for it.

eta* the book words/phrases borrowed from: "The Story of Charlottes Web- E.B. White's Eccentric Life In Nature and The Birth of an American Classic. I randomly turned to page 103 and looked toward the bottom which the sequence continued to page 104. This book was a used book sale find..probably paid $1, and already read it through- so I didn't mind drawing some boxes in it.

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posted July 05, 2014 11:47 PM            

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What a nice idea! Maybe I'll post one

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