Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Oulipost #9: HEADLINES (variation of Jean Queval’s “Cent Ons")

Prompt: Compose a poem whose body is sourced from article headlines in your newspaper.




Source: http://www.newscientist.com/
and http://www.capecodonline.com/

Man arrested after ...

Cannibal tadpoles
eat the fourth state of matter,

London mayor Boris fights robot cars
for federal Monomoy ice skating, and

Hilltop's Championship fiberglass cows
find home in Sandwich town meeting.

2 comments:

Nicole said...

Cannibal tadpoles....
So perfect. :)

Margo said...

Okay, this is my favourite. How can anyone resist 'cannibal tadpoles' never mind 'fiberglass cows'.