Poems in odd places

[OT]

Um... no, I'm not asking where you put your poetry.

Today there were 50 new poems. Because I have to much spare time on my hands I arranged the titles (yes I used every darn one) into a poem (of sorts).

It reads much better if you read it in a bizzarro-Hallmark overly dramatic voice with a hint of teenage angst..

Feel free to jump in with your own combination or find poetry in something or other and post it here.

Poem Titles From 29 December:

footnotes

I Lie Awake
Memories and Desires
Pleading
Standing in Silence
Where Does Steel Go To Be Strong?

Morning After
I like it, I do
deep throat
Phone Sex
Water From The Womb
me the mermaid
Puppy Love

doing it
Deep in my dream
Pain Part 1
Control
Pain Part 2
Black
Remember Me Anyway

Quietly Waiting
A Walk Into The Darkness
The Concise Feeling of Rejection

Too Much
Shared
night fall

Next Call
Let Me
walk thru winter for my Lover...
Blue Highway Singing
Rushing
Understanding

Ode
Ode II
Ode to You
The Hand of God
An other Sonnet
Sidewalk
Spree 3

I.
Bloodlust
Twas the Night Before Xmas
December 26th

Only
Newness
a little left of love
The Light Of Your Smile
You Are Like A Color
Rapture's Door
innocence

 

[Angeline]

You're a talented woodenhead.

 

[Senna Jawa]

[...]Today there were 50 new poems. [...]I arranged the titles (yes I used every darn one) into a poem (of sorts).

There is nothing new under the sun.

I've posted such a poem or two, made of titles (in their alphabetical order!) here on this board about a half a year ago. Also on rec.arts.poems, without telling the audience about its "secret". I even got some compliments. The text has read naturally, just as another poem.

In 1990-1991 and then again in 1994-1995 I had posted "poems" made up as follows: I would egrep (select) all lines on rec.arts.poems which had appeared during a period of time (perhaps one month or one week) which featured a given, not too common word or similar. These "poems" were quite long. It was an interesting read.

But the one (or two) I made of the titles was a real poem, because I was actually selecting the titles rather than taking them mechanically as they went. A big part of art is just that, a selection from a rich environment. And 200+ titles was rich enough.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Marek Lugowski

"Concrete poetry" of high artistic value, admired even by his "enemies", was created in the past by Marek Lugowski out of old newspaper news articles or texts of instructions how to operate something like a vacuum cleaner, or from ads.

(I've written about Marek in the past on a few occasions. Besides being one of the elite Internet poets, he is also a superb translator and he leads his publishing house ASGP, since its inception--check it on web).

 

[Guest]

Party-poop wet-blanket. Try and have some fun one day - you might like it.

 

[eagleyez]

Party-poop wet-blanket. Try and have some fun one day - you might like it.

fun IS poetry

no kidding...

 

[Angeline]

Senna, OT has done this before as well. And yes, Marek's poetry is wonderful.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Party-poop wet-blanket. Try and have some fun one day - you might like it.

Yes, do it once and you'll sound more convinced

 

[Guest]

Yes, do it once and you'll sound more convinced

It?