Blackout Poetry

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Blackout Poetry

Blackout Poetry

 

For a while I've been wanting to do some blackout poetry, but I didn't have a book I was willing to desecrate by marking out all the words, so yesterday I bought a water-damaged 50-cent paperback from my library called The Manticore. Here's the first poem I've made.

 

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The   journal   was born

and educated   and

became a   book,

had its origin in an

editorial column.   also, for a while,

studying at the Old   School,

serving   His

superb epigrammatic wit,

It is   a   writer, however,

that   has

 

composed   The

World of Wonders. 

 

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I've kept the choppiness and puntuation/capitalization of the physical poem, putting three spaces instead of one where words/clauses were separated. I'm interested to know wheteher you think I should keep it like that or alter it to fit my meaning.

 

submitted by CignusMoon, age 167 moons, The Story World
(March 4, 2020 - 11:00 am)

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I don't know what blackout poetry is, but I like your poem.

submitted by WordSong, age Forever, My bed
(March 4, 2020 - 4:50 pm)

Cool! Is blackout poetry like when you black out a bunch of words in a book and make a poem out of the words that aren't blacked out? Just guessing. 

submitted by Agent WinTOP!, age TOPified! , Enceladus
(March 7, 2020 - 6:44 pm)

Yes, @AgentWinTOP!, blackout poetry is where you take a book or a page in a book and black out most of the words and the words you leave behind are a poem.

submitted by CignusMoon, age 168 moons, The Story World
(March 30, 2020 - 8:51 pm)