Poemorama at Paper Poetry
Full Sun
A tiny free verse poem
Many beneficial insects overwinter, welcoming the worms, student-grown seedlings alongside seedlings, fruit trees, and flowering toolshed and nearby greenhouses.
I’m sharing this poem in response to Paper Poetry’s Poemorama, Part 1, Prompt 6: Free Verse. Tagging a handful of poets who might be interested in sharing a poem for Poemorama: Min L, Carmellita, Harry Stefanakis, MW Mercer, and MN.
To create this poem, I cut some phrases from an article in the Seattle Times about an urban farm project at the University of Washington, and then I rearranged these phrases to shape a little poem that combined some of the varied parts of the garden which is cared for by students and local volunteers.
The process I used is one of many ways to create found poetry. The main idea of a found poem is that you start with a written text that wasn’t meant to be a poem, and you work with the language from that text so that you arrange it in a new way where it does function as a poem. There is some good info on found poetry on the Academy of American Poets website.
I think the language in my little poem above might be more fun than grammatical — you never know what can happen in a poem. :)
For National Poetry Writing Month, I’ve been working on poems (almost!) every day. Here’s a list of the other poems I’ve written.
