#thepoem

[susanburch]

4/1/24

strawberry scented sunlight

my crumpled heart

reconsidered

A found poem from:

Maas, Sarah J. A Court of Mist and Fury, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. P. 125, 129.

[afarewelltoarmsandpoems]

That’s her—

rare, beautiful, offensive

nursing a sabre cut,

all over

love

—

Source text: Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929. Print. Pg 17.

—

Image Layover Source: La habitación de hotel - Photograph by Esperanza Manzanera

[thepoeming]

Join us for Poeming Spring 2024!!

It's happening again... POETRY!

This April, POEMING participants can choose any banned book as source text!

As usual, the deal is:

Create a unique Tumblr for this monthly project

Post one poem each day in April (be sure to properly cite source text!)

Join the Poeming Facebook group to post a link to your daily poem and chat with others about the process

Celebrate a month full of fun poetry afterwards! Take your Tumblr offline if you want to submit to lit mags!

Click on the link above to sign up! Newbies welcome! :)

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

I don't like

shopping at Christmas

3 strangers talking to me at the same time

crowds of people laughing and shouting

looking at people's quickly moving faces

smelling cigarette breath and aftershave

adverts shouting in my head to buy things

when people grab me like ready-made rubbish

a rushing river of people and only one way to go

I like a really cold winter night when all I could see was a star

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 8-10, 23, 32-39, 51, 82, 101-104, 145, 154, 178

[mistfuryandink]

April 14: but at what cost?

a girl with a mortal heart

ached and starving and cold

she swore to pay her dues

in sand and seaweed and luck

found poem from Maas, Sarah J. A Court of Mist and Fury. pg 357

[thesweetslow]

black velvet

oh man, i’ve missed a couple of days, but hey, 👋 here we are.

flashes of lightning, the black velvet artfully torn ⚡️

Halse Anderson, Laurie. Speak, Penguin Group, New York, NY, 1999, Print. p. 157.

[whatshesaidtoday]

Day 3 Go-Go’s

Today/an entire Monday playing Go-Go remixes/cool and fly/down-to-earth/together inseparable

found poetry words utilized from pages 45-46 Jackson, Tiffany D.. Monday's Not Coming. First edition. New York, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018

[pamelahobartcarter]

April 1: Pink

The Poeming-BANS OFF OUR POETRY

White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. New York and Evanston: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1952. Print. Pg. 4.

[barrel-organphase]

April 17: police and diarrhea

*****

police

and

diarrhea

the stench of

routine

*****

Found poem by Sara Adams. Poem created from phrases on a single page of source text. Words written approximately where the words fall on the page.

Source text: Allende, Isabel. House of the Spirits. Alfred K. Knopf, Inc., 1985. Pg 273.

For more info on this found poetry project, check out thepoeming.tumblr.com!

[bansoffourpoetry-aprilpoeming]

April 15: A movie dressed in pretend

sports jackets and ties everyone had a place to sit

manners and the good hanky-panky

it was like one big commercial for seventh grade

[This is a found poem made of words located on pages 95 to 97 (title), page 85 (first stanza), pages 86 to 87 (second stanza), and page 97 (third stanza) in the source text.]

Source text: Blume, Judy. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. 1970. April 15 2024.

[poemingcupofstars]

Even a begging man / holding darkness / can continue to dream.

Found poem sourced from The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, arranged on The Muse Tarot

[susanburch]

4/6/24

identical long swords

the option to stay

or go

A remixed poem from:

Maas, Sarah J. A Court of Mist and Fury, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. P.157.

[afarewelltoarmsandpoems]

Farewell self-inflicted wounds

wounded fragments

wounded sleep

I, myself with open eyes

rising

a Strega in the Lord

—

Source text: Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Scribner, 1929. Print. Pg 11.

[mixedupdiaryofakid]

4/25/2024

There were vampires

All sorts

Without heads

In a hurry once

Like thoughts

For me to ruin

Haunted

blackout poem, original source Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. pg -page 51.

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

People think computers are different from people

But I was frightened in two different ways

And they were in inverse proportion to one another

So that the total fear remained a constant

A new force altogether like electricity

A fixed pair of crossed spanners

I should pull my stupid self together

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 99, 107, 115, 136

[mistfuryandink]

April 29: never (but always) play with your food

I feel you

a spike - exciting

glimpses of you and me

twisted, bowing at the waist

I was hungry

and you - you always make time for me

eat me for breakfast

bite me

play with me

make me come

found poem from Maas, Sarah J. A Court of Mist and Fury. pg 108-109