Tommy, I really, really hope that art grows in your soul . . . to me there really is no purer form of expression than to use your artistic talents to communicate!
I love art . . . can appreciate most forms of it . . . but poetry lives inside of me!
Your Bunny Annie turned me on to "Blackout Poetry" a few years ago . . . the concept, in and of itself, is rather simple . . . what you extract can be profound.
Find an old book, newspaper, magazine . . . something with lots of words on a page is the easiest to work with. If you're a book purist, you can copy the page instead of ripping it out (some people can't stand to ruin a book) . . . if it doesn't bother you, just tear a few pages out. Don't read the text in the current form because that won't matter, it might even skew your mind . . . give yourself a set time limit so you don't put a whole lot of thought into it. Starting in the upper left corner, choose words that jump off the page and circle them. There's no right or wrong . . . poetry doesn't have to follow any pattern . . . no matter what your Creative Writing or English teacher tells you. Once you reach the bottom of the page, go back and read the words you circled out loud . . . more than once. Do you hear it? Can you feel it? Now take a magic marker and black out all of the words that are not in circles.
You can choose the simple format:
Or you can get really creative:
But you know what? If you only learn to draw stick men . . . then draw stick men!
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.” ~ Wallace Stevens
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