Found poetry is the literary version of a collage. The poems are made up of words taken from a printed document like a newspaper article, a speech, or in this case, the book, Tiny Budda. The poet selects words from the document and rearranges them to create a unique poem.

Here’s the poem I came up with from page 41 of Tiny Budda:

FINDING ME

I strip away layers of myself.
Worry.
Hurt.
Emptiness.
I let go of who I've been.
Over and over again.
I hasten the pace.
When I look in the mirror
I like what I see—
possibility,
light,
freedom.


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