one of my goals with this mayday project was to use the opportunity to experiment, but i've been finding myself sticking to my same old, mouldy habits. (with the pressure of a poem a day, i've been reverting to doing what i know and am comfy with.) today i'm trying out a found poem (never done this before... not even sure how to do this) because i just couldn't resist the gems contained within the preface to my thesaurus, circa 1962, which i borrowed from my Dad when I was writing a high school essay and never returned. here i've edited down some the selling features -- removed only context and a few words here and there. is that what a found poem is?
what this book can do for you
it offers you immediate,
practical and invaluable assistance
whenever you are in trouble
with a few quick synonyms
for a word you have been over using
you feel that your language lacks
freshness or vigor, your ideas
drab, weak, vague or overly general
laboring over phraseology,
you desperately search
the recesses of your own mind
before you start
tracking down a word,
one particular word
that will most successfully convey
the subtle shading of emotion
you wish to get across to him
3 comments:
Fun. I think you should title it "Thesaurus" as the "one particular word/that will most successfully convey/the subtle shading of emotion/you wish to get across".
Kudos for trying to break out of your "mouldy habits". It's hard sometimes. Right now I'm fixated on the pour, a big gush of text. Though one day, I'd like to get over my fear of indents. Thanks for the reminder to change up!
To me, yes, that's what a found poem is. Enjoyed it!
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