form focused poems
found poetry is writing a poem through the means of collecting scraps of sentences and fragments of phrases, uprooting them from their original context, transforming them into a poem. also see blackout poetry
"all writing is in fact cut ups. a collage of words read heard overhead. ahat else?"
– william burroughs
gruel was found within the late evening text messages, ones sent at the darker part of the night – a melancholy that can't be silenced, a desire that can't be satiated.
haiku, famous for its three lines and five-seven-five syllable stucture, is a form that gives structure in a freeing way. these "pocket poems" are imagery driven, and usually contain two images that the writer ties together within the poem. some say haiku are unfinished thoughts that the reader carries out. the writer is also able to use more or less than seventeen syllables to write their haiku. form asks to be pushed beyond its limits.
read these as one piece or as individual sets, or maybe fragments cut off every so often. find out where the poem begins and ends.
the intewebs say a ghazal has a specific form and structure - e ach couplet ends on the same word or phrase (the radif), and is preceded by the couplet's rhyming word (the qafia, which appears twice in the first couplet).
this was a new medium for me, and i had to play around for a while and try it on for size. i usually don't like technique of repetition. i advocate strongly that your use of language and specific terms is what gives a poem demension - every single word holds with it a spectrum of meaning, different images are evoked, multitude of emotions are touched upon. in poetry, your words are your pallette. make every one unique in its use.
