Lo and Behold

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I just can't stop finding poems. The lines keep dancing across my desk, leaping down from the bookshelves and flying off the end of my gluestick to join together in a chorus that must be sung.

Meri at meriak.blogspot.com has also found herself in their thrall. She has developed her own special style of found poem and posted a beautiful example on her blog. She said that the words "gravitate like iron filings to a magnet" ... "and fall in love"... Go and read her great effort...

So here are a few more of my reborn poems:








These next two are slightly less found, maybe a little more rearranged, in that they come from the same couple of pages of Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha.'









My backgrounds are:
A Monet painting
Autumn in Japan - my daughter's photo
The cover of my journal
My river photo photoshopped
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A Serendipitous Poem

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The poems below are examples of 'Found Poems' - the serendipitous connecting of found phrases and lines. Found poems are fun and easy to assemble.

Here's how you do it:

* With your eyes, scan the paragraphs of a few pages of an old book for phrases that resonate with you and cut them out ( or photocopy and cut)

* Gather a few phrases and begin to arrange them and rearrange them until you have 'found' a little poem

* Find an appropriate background and mount your lines - and there voila... you are an instant poet.



The backgrounds to my found poems are, in order of display:


~ A nature photo taken by my son
~ My husband aged about six playing on the shoreline at Eastbourne, Wellington, New Zealand
~ The cover image from Ann Morrow Lindberg's 'Gift from the Sea'.
~ A corner of Bruegel's 'Harvest'


If you feel inspired grab your scissors and glue stick and then send me the results:

delwyntatton@hotmail.com

and I will make a communal post of our efforts at Found Poetry.












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