another Oulipost warm up poem: The Chaos Julie Creates

the prompt: "WARM-UP #3: BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW (BELLE ABSENTE)

The outlaw in question is the name of the person (or subject) to whom the poem is addressed. Each line of the poem includes all the letters of the alphabet except for the letter appearing in the dedicated name at the position corresponding to that of the line: when writing a poem to Eva, the first line will contain all letters except E, the second all letters except V, and the third all letters except A.

Choose someone mentioned in your newspaper to whom to address your poem. Compose a beautiful outlaw poem following the procedure outlined above and using words sourced from your newspaper text."

the source(s): http://www.capecodtoday.com/event/23738-talking-parenting
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2014/03/23/24631-spring-blizzard-targets-eastern-new-england
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2014/03/21/24593-cape-cod-dart-seeks-emergency-volunteers
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2014/03/21/24600-cape-cod-times-moving-texas
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2014/03/21/24600-cape-cod-times-moving-texas
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2014/03/24/24636-runaway-sped-costs-harm-cape-school-districts

 the poem:

The Chaos Julie Creates

(J) Mrs Sacchetti,
the Queen Bee from childhood,
parenting with freckled siblings
and the heavy blizzard
talking about
heavy exercises of love.

(U) The department meets in New Jersey
 by registration rivalry where no topics with heavy settings
are eligible
or information recognized.

(L) A grant in care--
addressed
and funded in tax--
windswept New Jersey with no out
in Queen Bee poems he remains heavy
things zoom out,
but the shih

(I) tzu negated sun
next to the heavy household—(
jobs that know lots of love
seem key in excellent care
and department funded health seems)--
but the owner enjoys snowfall and poems

(E) Cod by grant unfold
official jurisdiction known
playing rivalry qualify topics
with six siblings
… law may blizzard.

 

the note: i wrote a stanza for each letter instead of just one line.  i felt it fit better, and allowed me to do more with the words by giving them line breaks and more diversifying, defining punctuation.  so there.

an oulipost practice poem

the conductor of this great ambition I have taken on, to write a found poem every day in april, is equipping us all (78 poets) with some practice prompts.  I wanted to post this one because I kinda sorta like the resulting poem...

the prompt:
WARM-UP #2: BLANK VERSE AMIDST THE PROSE
And now for something slightly more difficult...compose a poem using unintentional lines of iambic pentameter found in your newspaper (or practice source). Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. More background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_verse

the poem:
a drum line competition in Calgary
bring melons, cantaloupes and such
the two drummers have a long history

he got his first drum kit and began
a drum line competition in Calgary
beat boxing to his sister's hip-hop

we are sharing the seeds of music
a fun environment in which to write
a drum line competition in Calgary

SOURCE: 3/14/14 Mashpee Enterprise "Community Classes" and "Captivating Rhythms" by Luke Vose