Today is X for X marks the spot in Rena Traxel’s AtoZ Poetry Challenge. Two more days left to go, we’ll be lost without it. Thanks so much Rena for all your hard work. Today we are asked to write a found poem of sorts using key words we can pick out from source text. Please pop over to Rena’s blog to read all about the Found Poetry Project and read the source text where I got my words. I’ll underline the words I chose for my poem. The picture below shows you the rules if you ever wish to try one.
125,000 for the honeymoon,
relationship rocky,
Wolf Valley a better choice,
no cash left for groceries,
no champagne to sip on the veranda.
Dodge the Becketts
Stomp to the common beat
of monotony, monogamy
until you find
the rose that blooms
only in your hand
and ride the second sea.
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These are fun! I just tried my first one (about ladybugs) yesterday!
i just whizzed over to see it, you’d never know it was a found poem, it runs so smoothly, lovely!
Cool. I think I would kill my husband if he spent 125, 000 on a honeymoon! But to me this says how a marriage has it’s ups and down. I like it.
Exactly! Yes, I would too
Soooo good, Catherine! Happiness is how we create it. It is in our hand to make bloom for us. Although $125,000 on a honeymoon? Talk about your cliff hanging rocky start!!!
Thanks Pamela, we actually had a surprise about how much the honeymoon cost only when we got to the hotel, maybe that gave me the idea. I always read small print now
shakes head knowingly.
Very nice. That’s a nice chunk of change for the honeymoon.
This was great! Love- “…and ride the second sea”
I would never have thought of that myself if I hadn’t picked those words that’s why I love found poems.
I know what you mean! It’s was a fun challenge today :0)
That was fun to read
Great concept too… Found poems.
Xx
Thanks Michelle x
Whoa, 125,000 on a honeymoon! Hubby?? How’z come we didn’t???? (Although, at least we had money for food.) Ha! I love found poems. Fun, fun, fun!
This sounds interesting. Not sure about found poems, but your underlined words show a rocky start and and marriage of ups and downs. I would never spend 125,000 on a honeymoon.
*gasp*
Found poems can be so abstract and mysterious! I like what you came up with. I haven’t began mine yet–I think I’m a little scared!
I just learned about found poems this month! I think it is a cool idea!
I am going to tell my teacher about it I think it would be fun to do!