Today's NaPoWriMo prompt was to take an Emily Dickinson poem, remove all the punctuation, and then re-break the lines, adding or removing words in order to make something new.
I took that suggestion to the extreme, typing out all the words to "A not admitting of the wound" into a column, and then rearranging them copy-paste fashion into groups by parts of speech with the windows Paint accessory. All this as preparation to begin playing with them as though they were refrigerator poetry magnets. I built my poem up from scratch, based on how the words called to me.
Below is a .jpg rendition of the result. The stray words at the bottom were my leftovers.
I enjoyed this exercise! I am always interested in how different artists can use the same raw materials to arrive at unique outcomes (give or take a few one and two letter words).
The original poem, by Emily Dickinson:
A not admitting of the wound
A not admitting of the wound
Until it grew so wide
That all my Life had entered it
And there were troughs beside -
A closing of the simple lid that opened
to the sun
Until the tender Carpenter
Perpetual nail it down -
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1 comment:
I like what you did with the Emily Dickensen poem - well done and let's see some more. You can find mine at gramswisewords.blogspot.com
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