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Collage Poems

Post by palephx » November 4th, 2005, 5:24 pm

I have a better description of how to do this, but suffice it to say that you chop words (or sequences, fragments, clusters, etc.) from any source you favor--as quickly and without deliberation as possible--and reassemble them in more or less random fashion.

I find it a good way to clear blocks and to stop myself from a lot of the artifice which plagues poetry. Here's an example for everybody:

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That's the pieces, and how they appeared in my journal. For easier reading, here's the re-punctuated "translation":

______Past
______Roaring


The benefits of a young adulthood
(hold your bagel-shaped heart).
Residential Installation can radiate
______in accordance with harmful interference.
An early vice-screening test to detect
the national correlation
______to good oral health.
With your family, negative scores
______means disease.
There is a search for the beginning.
Their families against these key issues.
Case of an accident foreseen,
the reserved unit stops playing,
offers a wealth of risk.

Register messages that may
clot, causing a theory,
tracks to use a little longer,
future Elements and
kids to take home and use.
A fashion show, collectible, Native American.
Know signs of how to respond properly
with the polarized blades.

Taught Past Roaring,
bit the dust with twisted horns.
Museum of its heart,
every visitor exhibits.
______For example, the beating.
Incorporate more into your According.
Poll revealed women were unaware
when located away from grounding.
______Provide electricity.
To prepare, try whipping.
Learn how from
the maximum amount reliable.
Choose goals that tip Someone over.
Suffer every 53 seconds.
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another one...

Post by palephx » November 4th, 2005, 5:32 pm

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Transformation in Store

Bombing, purging love of them, and the privileges...
Where different males see a fascinating assortment,
others claim that their body is Alternately funny,
______not all playing. To expose how they got their real will.
Viral marketing decision-makers supervise the festival staff.
Transformation in store: love with
______universal longing, unconditional desire.

The hope that she will survive; the bok, been translated.
______The true story of this extraordinary submission.
Some well reveal themselves to us. Drug addicts.
Nazi motherhood for the other underground,
______told her immediately, "Debut."

On Burning and Jaguar Chutney...
Visiting your own vacation.
Nico Water drops on Popcorn Boys
this: us down citing out of the lesbian and gay year.
A successful but lonely childhood.
Phoenix, you demanded Queer. Humble, and will allow.

Fuels her with a half-century story.
Demand, that follows his best living,
my best friend like glue, "Release it upon
the things, and me, any successes I experienced." Compassion.
Tucked where cowboys lounge away, he was New York artist, ailing,
______only sparks. A general falling in upon.
Men's Queer Paragraph 1.

Agreed to be nominated.
Celebrating splashy birthday phrases
______is purging the dangerous love.
Cancer, from and how we are raised.
______Bloodied his knuckles, and every ticket a can-do attitude.



As you can probably see, a lot depends on your source, and your general mood when culling material. One bonus by-product of this process, you get a little snapshot of your psyche at the time. Enjoy. :D
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