As you’ll see from the photo, I wrote this poem in a grid-like form. However, I did not write it in the order you see. Continue reading
experiment
I just have to say this real quick-like…
As I sometimes do, I was writing poems while waiting for tonight’s open mic to start. After one or two ‘ regular’ poems, I thought I would do something different: I filled a whole page of my ginormous sketchbook/journal with a single poem.
But here’s how I did it: I wrote alternate lines from the top down and bottom up of the page—and alternated sides of the page as well. The result is that some ‘stanzas’ as they appear on the page make sense, while others make no sense at all. I have noooooo idea how I am going to arrange this one when I transfer it to my present Word file…
(24 April 2017)
A small experiment
Yesterday, I tried something a little different. I started out writing a prose poem, but wasn’t satisfied with it—so I took what I had written and adapted it to more of a free-verse form. First, the prose poem:
An experimental poem
This is an experiment of sorts, playing with words to give them unexpected suffixes or conjugations. This was something I used to do with a friend about 25 years ago. Most of what we came up with has faded into memory; the only example I remember is mobular, which could be used, say, to describe a baby who has learned to crawl, and now is crawling all over the place—e.g., She’s become mobular. I see that particular ‘word’ as a combination of mobile and ambulatory. (Another example might be the prisoner played by Damon Wayans on In Living Color.) Anyway, I thought I would carry things further by trying to write a poem in that style. It was harder than I thought it would be—but here it is:
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