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 introduction of the coffee table book Seeing Flowers by Robert Llewellyn and Teri Dunn Chace. The poet selects words from the document and rearranges them to create a unique poem.

Plucking words from page 11 of Seeing Flowers, I wrote this found poem. I am always surprised with the poetry that comes from found poems. In this case, it took a bit of a turn in the end which I wasn’t expecting.

Here’s the pool of words. The highlighted words are the words I used in my poem:

And here is the finished found poem.

Aren’t found poems fun? I would never have written this particular poem with these specific words if not for Found Poetry. It’s nice to step away from the way I usually write and try something different every once in a while.

find more found poems here

• Writing a Found Poem: No, It’s Not Cheating!
• Found Poem: Where the Wild Things Are
• How to Write a Found Poem: Thrift Shop Flowers
• Found Poem Written from 23 & Me DNA Mission Statement

give it a try:

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