Lives moving as fast as possible
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“POETRY” Invitation: I invite you to write a poem of any poetic form on your own blog about a particular travel destination. Or you can write about travel in general. Concentrate on any intention you set for your poetry.
One of my intentions for my trip to Illinois was to write a Found Poem, but it ended up being more of a Headline Poem, which was one of my intentions for Kentucky. I started by getting two local newspapers from Illinois and one from St. Louis, Missouri, two hours from my sister’s house in Murphysboro, IL. I cut out 50-100 words and phrases from those three newspapers. Though my intention was to copy the language in the order in which I found it, I just played around with all the cut-out words and phrases and then arranged them on purple paper, then glued them down.
You can either set your own poetic intentions, or use one of the prompts I’ve listed on this page: writing prompts: poetry. (This page is a work in process). You can also include photos, of course.
Include the link in the comments below by Thursday, August 1 at 1:00 p.m. EST. When I write my post in response to this challenge on Friday, August 2, I’ll include your links in that post.
This will be an ongoing invitation, on the first Friday of each month. Feel free to jump in at any time. 🙂
I hope you’ll join in our community. I look forward to reading your posts!
~ wander.essence ~ 
It wouldn’t even occur to me to do this, Cathy! 🙂 🙂
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I love experimenting with different forms and ways of creating. 🙂
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I have so many reactions to your well assembled “found poem” .
– We all end up as frustrated orphans as our parents pass away, throwing us headfirst into the reality of life as we realize we are on a one stop ride, headed to that inevitability. Frustrated that there was always so much more we wanted to know about our parents and the many threads of emotions and experiences we never knew. Sadly, our electronic age has taken us away from the the oral stories of past lives.
– I especially like the last page. We do move through life, wearing ourselves out, too fatigued to be ready to embrace the future, not taking advantage of what new beginnings have to offer. And yes, all of us hear, but don’t listen, understand or comprehend how we could grow by breaking the way we live our lives, moving out of our comfort zone to embrace a future radically different than our past, a broken future, but a joyous future. I love these words and the many angles one could explore to savor and relate to thoughts conveyed.
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Thank you so much, my darling husband, for your deep reading of my Found Poem, and for your thoughtful comments and reflections. Yes, it is about loss and the realization of our mortality and the fact that the future arrives whether we’re ready for it or not, and then, eventually, full stop, the future and everything else is gone. I like your notion that we’re too fatigued sometimes to embrace the future, and yes, we sometimes don’t listen carefully enough to or engage fully with all that life has to offer. Thank you for reading and thinking deeply about what I put together here. 🙂
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So cleverly done, Cathy! Mike’s thoughtful comment says it all, so I’ll just leave my comment there …
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Thanks so much, Anabel. I’m glad you enjoyed it. It was a fun project and part of a Found Poem class I was taking online at the time. 🙂
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