unmistakeable
ever-present
sadness
rendered
even more poignant
by choked emotions
gathering as night falls;
sequestered by
enveloping anguish
suddenly
cried out in pain
lost
in doubt and visions
of nothing
A note on form: Blackout poetry...Erasure poetry...Redacted poetry...by whatever name you wish to call it.... The above construction is formed by taking an already existing piece of work (whether from a book or newspaper or any other written entity) and removing words until you are left with something that hopefully makes sense.
About this series: My goal is to challenge myself to unearth some semblance of sense through the use of blackout/erasure poetry.
Attribution: Blackout Poetry unearthed from a page in Lee Smith’s novel, Oral History.
12 comments:
all the emotions wrapped up in the veil of night................
It's so fun to work with erasure poetry. Nicely done.
Excellent. I think I've said it before, but you really have a knack for this poetic tool.
Very sad -- visions of nothing especially!
When visions are nothing.. that's the best of times.
Powerful--I like this one a lot!
well the emotion certainly comes through...that is a sadness much like a blanket wrapping the legs that you are unable to escape...
Hi - just so you know.. I will have black-out poetry in my prompt for dVerse this Thursday.. I might refer to you if I'm allowed..
happy new year you...smiles
I look forward to seeing your dVerse prompt on Blackout Poetry.... Please feel free to refer to any of the pieces I have liberated.
Where you been? I've been missing your work!
hey you...how have you been?
4 months is a long time...smiles.
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