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This week Jone at Jone Rush MacCulloch is hosting Poetry Friday and celebrating National Poetry Month with the Classic Found Poem Palooza! Click here for a plethora of found poems!
A Found Poem
“This poem uses syntax to explore simultaneous fields of thought and existence. It also reflects on how poems are a tool of both transformation and travel through time and space. The practice of poem-making results in its own and new form(s), and, if successful, includes the changing and transport of both the writer and reader.”
—Marwa Helal
I chose, as my inspiration, the classic Moby Dick, by Herman Melville. Despite not loving this masterpiece as a high school senior, I have renewed appreciation for Melville’s humor in the opening chapter. Yes, we all eventually need some ocean reverie!
Patricia Franz writes picture books and poetry. She believes children, dogs, and sourdough have a lot to teach us about life, joy, and wonder. She has raised two boys, four dogs, and holds a master’s degree in Theology with a focus on children’s spirituality. Patricia, her husband, her Bernese Mountain dog, Bonny, and her sourdough starter split their time between the Arizona desert and the Sierra Nevada mountains. 
“consign ourselves to/pure air” Yes! I am all for that. Nice found poem, Patricia.
Thank you, Susan. Jone did a great job of recruiting!
I love the definition of a found poem. And Moby Dick… the ocean reveries.
Wow! What a wonderful find. That ending, “wonder-world” is perfect.
I always think of underwater as a wonder-world.
Yes, I love imagining “ocean reveries”, too, Patricia, and your choice of those after “here they all unite”. I may need to read that first chapter! Have a lovely Sunday!
Those choices all came from Mr. Melville
🙂
From Melville’s classic you created a ‘killer’ poem, Patricia. All puns aside, you ‘found’ just the right combination of words. (ok, one more pun… 😉 )
so punny
(wink wink)