I love the written word. The beauty that can be found in just the right words, put together just the right way to make me feel something. And I cringe when writers of prose tell me they’re not poets. Of course they are. Poetry is prose with line breaks. And Found Poetry is a beautiful example of that. The Academy of American Poets (poets.org) describe Found Poetry as follows: “Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems... "A pure found poem consists exclusively of outside texts: the words of the poem remain as they were found, with few additions or omissions. Decisions of form, such as where to break a line, are left to the poet.” Many people don’t think it’s a legitimate medium or a “real” poem. I disagree. I’ve taken a few of my favorite writers and positioned them in such a way as to turn something already beautiful and romantic into a new work, with a different heartbeat, a different cadence, a different breath, ultimately, a different work of art. Take Virginia Wolf’s reworking here: Or Seamus Heaney: Or even this from Jean Webber: I’ve even taken bits and pieces of my own novels and older blogs and found passages that I felt captured an emotion, an image, a moment that was worth putting into the still-life of a poem, which I will share in a slide show below. I challenge you to join me and The Nu Romantics every Friday for the #FoundPoetryFriday writing prompt. Every human being who breathes life on this Earth is a poet. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. It is what makes us indeed, uniquely human as Walt Whtiman reminds us. Find The Nu Romantics on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheNuRomantics/ Join the revolution. Enjoy some of my found poetry from my original works below. And you can find my books by visiting my main webpage or Amazon: www.amazon.com/R.B.-OBrien/e/B00TEF5PT8/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1.
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S.D.
4/28/2017 15:14:21
I don't remember that from Secret. I f&*king love that. Where? Three?
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Christine
4/29/2017 11:00:09
That's cool.
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Master
4/30/2017 13:07:34
Thank you, beautiful.
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I LOVE to write and read. I particularly enjoy reading erotic romance that has tons of emotion in it. I hope you will ask me questions and share your favorite authors and novels. I welcome all feedback.
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