Warning; this is not a poetry form for you if you’re not really cool with defacing old books. This is the poetry form for you if you’re also into drawing, painting, scrap booking, or collage work.
A found poem is one that you discovered in the existing text on a page. I think I used to do this during Science class by accident in my textbooks. Basically, you go along, and in some way highlight the words of your poem. Then get creative with the rest. Here’s an example of mine.
If you can’t tell from that really bad scan job, that’s the first page of Treasure Island, and the words are, “I take up my pen in the time, and remember, in the broken voice.”
I had so much fun with this poetry form. Fortunately I happened to have this really old Readers Digest edition of some classic stories that I intend to do this with.
Did you create a found poem you’d like to share with us? Leave a picture in the comments below!
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