This morning, I was in a coffee shop and worked on a Blackout Poem. This is where you take an article in perhaps a newspaper and create a poem from the words, blacking out what you don’t wish to use. You can get more details here:
Writer’s Digest on Erasure and Blackout Poems
I picked up one of my favorite reads, Indy Week, and found several interesting articles about the different arts events coming up for the Fall. I kept this copy due to so many wonderful things coming up in the Triangle. (That Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill NC for those who wouldn’t know what I mean).
Here’s what I came up with:
Looking at this, I decided to develop it into a more complete poem:
separate thinking
although different styles play
we all want something
Okay, it’s a senryu from the blackout poetry.
That’s what I have for this day 🙂
Here’s my space for working this morning:
prolificpulse.blog 
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #9: Lisa Tomey’s latest #senryu!
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Thank you!
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My pleasure! 🙂
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What a great way to be inspired and compose a poem!
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Thanks! It’s a challenge, but I like doing it.
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Absolutely. An opening that entices me to go that way too!
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Lovely poem, Lisa. I’ve tried blackout poetry and puns a few times, and it’s not something my brain works with, heh.
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Thank you! It’s tricky, but you pun so well! Perhaps that’s enough brain work 😉
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Such a special poem coming from the blackout. “although different styles play”—isn’t play a wonderful word!—and then the capping line at the end. Both Senryu and Haiku, my dear!
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