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Today’s Take Action Prompt: Found Poetry
By Sandra Lee Schubert | February 27, 2008
Found Poetry is the rearrangement of words or phrases taken randomly from other sources (example: clipped newspaper headlines, bits of advertising copy, handwritten cards pulled from a hat) in a manner that gives the rearranged words a completely new meaning.
Be creative and read your own Spam mail subject lines (please don’t open them - an adventure in virus-dom is not the goal). See if any of the words or lines interests you. Or using my Spam email subject lines below see if you can create some poetry or even a tiny story out of them.
A swinish
Guys, feel eighteen again!
Stop fruit down
Small cap promo mover alert
Saleslady knee hole
Finally there’s a way
Culprit erodible
Hot women doing crazy things
Sad dependent spoon
Autoregressive
Underbooked
Underwitholding
Authority relieve your strongest pain light
Spumoni taxi
Muscle bound guys become the biggest bottoms
while pole in wall is glory whole
Aching reckon apollonian declarator workplace civic
Here are my sample poems
Web-tribution: finding words all around
Muscle bound guys become the biggest bottoms
Underbooked and underwitholding
Take spumoni taxi
~*~
Autoregressive
Sad dependent spoon
Culprit erodible
Guys feel eighteen again
Finally, there’s a way!
~*~
Saleslady knee hole
A swinish
Stop fruit down
Lane of careful sliding
Depends on the knee
Are these brilliant poems? Not really. The point is to look for inspiration in unexpected ways and be willing to experiment and fail. Be willing to create bad writing. On the other side could be something brilliant.
© 2008 Sandra Lee Schubert www.writing-for-life.com
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