For Poetry Thursday, I went to a very fun to use and inspiring website called Erasures.
You get a hundred to two hundred word snip of text to erase word by word to make a poem. Fun, go try it!
I like to do this in real-life in altered books (part of the fun of doing art in a book is utilizing the text as part of the artwork), usually by circling words with pencil to make a poem and then painting around them, so only they show.
So here is the poem I came up with was as follows:
The Angry Moon
by Julie Zaccone Stiller
the Moon met
us, and
she was angry, for
all not openly.
for the moonlight is beautiful.
observe the days all
correctly,
the gods are constantly threatening,
sacrificing, inflicting litigating.
observing
pouring
and laughing.
this year
deprived gods crown; for thus
will know better ought to spend the days of
life according to the Moon.
You can see how it looks, with strange spacing, lines, punctuation etc. over here. Different feel isn't it?
I did one but I can tell it is one of those things I could spend endless minutes to hours entertaining myself with :)
ReplyDeleteOh no! Something else to do.
ReplyDeleteLove how the poem seems organic, when it came to be from deleting other words.
This is oh so intresting.. Hummm and oh...and I think I must tryit too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
I once wrote a poem deleting words from newspaper. It does take you places.
ReplyDeleteI liked this too. The moon thing!
gautami
Parallel Streams
Erasure poems are great fun, especially in altered books. I like what you've done with this one...
ReplyDeleteThis was a new concept for me and your poem turned out so beautiful. I am definetly going to try one of these and see what I get for fun.
ReplyDeleteThe creativity of human nature knows no boundaries. What a fascinating way to tempt the soul to speak.
ReplyDeleteYour poem is powerful - especially with the original strange spacing.
Thanks!
Julie in Virginia who clicked over here from Joanna's :)