Emerald13 POETRY

 ~     I hesitate. Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes time to adjust. A spill of cracked spines, piled one on top of the other bulging floor-to-ceiling marked by the occasional cock-eyed, hand-written sign, a promise of some kind of order. shadows curtain the alcove— a beard coughs Sections run into each other;  Literature, Do-It-Yourself, History, Cooking  is separated from  Self Help  turning a corner You will find  Tasmania  along a wall down the hallway, past a sprawling jumble of random miscellany and comics. There is nothing here for me. I head for the street. Fantasy by the disappearing staircase I hesitate. ~~~ published Haibun Today Feb 2009 slight changes above compared to the one accepted below ~ I hesitate.   Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes t...

I enjoy 'found poetry' very much - there are a few techniques around this, each providing a found poem. (© Gina altered book found poem) In essence found poetry is finding the poetic in the non-poetic and reimagining existing language to create something new and meaningful. Here are a few possibilities and techniques. 1.  ERASURE/BLACKOUT POETRY - find an existing text and working your way down the text, lightly circle with a pencil the words that appeal to you i often read and re read the words i have pencilled to see how they run together - with meaning and or logical sequence you are looking to reinterpret the text to create a new meaning or focus using a tool such as texta, whiteout or digital editing begin to blot out all the other words until only the 'poem' is left/revealed. 2. CUT UP POETRY - Cut up words, phrases or sentences from one or more source texts rearrange them to create a new poem, often with a different meaning or focus than the original text 3.  CEN...