Found Poetry

I've often thought about found poetry and I have written a few poems that way.  I think it's a valuable tool, especially when confronted with writer's block which I seem to have right now.  You can go to Google and type in "found poetry" and get all kinds of hits with good information on how to construct a poem.  The basic idea of found poetry is to use almost anything such as a newspaper, a book, a cookbook, instructions for a TV or anything like that to find interesting lines.  Write them down on a separate piece of paper, then go back and rearrange them in a pleasing way to write your poem.  You can use the words and sentences in the same order that they appeared when you found them, or you can add your owns words.  You have to look at the spacing of the lines and words to arrange them in a way you want the poem to read.

Here are a few links to writing found poetry:

Found and Headline Poems

Teacher's Guide Primary Source Set Found Poetry

Found Poems/Parallel Poems

These are just a few links.  As I said above, you can go to Google and typing in "found poetry" and find tons of resources.  I know that I'm going to explore the last link from that list above because it looks really interesting.

On a more personal note, I think I pulled a muscle in my hip day before yesterday.  Earlier in the week, I was down on my hands and knees trying to soak up water from a leak underneath our kitchen sink.  I was sore for a couple of days after that and then day before yesterday when I sat down in my recliner, I must have twisted the wrong way or something and pulled a sore muscle.  Now, I can hardly get up and down without muscle pain.  It's very frustrating, but I'll deal with it.