Saturday, April 05, 2014

Oulipost #5: Tautogram

Prompt: Compose a poem whose words — or at least the principal ones — all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your newspaper.


F-words from the Front page of the Cape Cod Times, April Fifth, 2014

five, four, fenway park
we found a few in front of the faces,
in front of the famous family fisherman,
,
following PHillip,
the father's first afterthought,
forever,
,
found under flexible floors
from faces of surfcasters
and 10-Foot fishermen,
,
from fisherman's families,
from Friday to the future
to a five to 0 vote on fishing,
,
funding fundraising fund,
first in front of,
then found in a file
,

2 comments:

beth said...

I love how local this is! I was hoping for more localness from these poems and haven't found that yet. Fantastic:
we found a few in front of the faces,
in front of the famous family fisherman

S.E.Ingraham said...

Ffff--fantastic. I keep meaning to comment on yours k k k katy...it's so rare to find someone who spells their name the traditional way, with a "y" the way you do, and the way we named our daughter, Katherine but to be Katy with a "y". I agree with Beth incidentally, you've captured so much that's local in your poem...it's wonderful.