Category Archives: Found Poetry

Dining Room Time Warp

Posted on Friday, January 10, 2014 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

The above is an erasure of pages 35 and 36 of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The Found Poetry Review posted this as last week’s prompt and asked us to erase, cut, or otherwise remix it. I couldn’t help but … Continue reading →

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The Liberation of Dulcinea

Posted on Monday, December 23, 2013 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

Darkly we whisper: this tale is older than you, a world that will never pause like dust to build a hill; the curves and loops of letters create their own rhythm. Have they trampled over barbwire?

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Solstice Magic

Posted on Friday, December 20, 2013 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

This was written for We Write Poems #190: Holiday Found Poetry in which Yousei Hime asked us to create a found poem, using a text that we liked when we were creating our poems for last week’s cento prompt. I … Continue reading →

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The Half-Impaired Raven

Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

I write because in me, living flows. I write because my bones fill up, injure me, hold the drink of Gods, and my wit. I write to rescue rhyme and revel, for this chance walks in beauty and starry skies. … Continue reading →

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Emergence of a Dream

Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

I. In me, living flows. My bones fill up, injure me, hold the drink of Gods, and my wit. Rescue rhyme and revel? This chance walks in beauty and starry skies. Meet in tender light one half impaired raven, yet … Continue reading →

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WWP Poem #5: The Day Before (or, Adam Ponders Before the Elohim)

Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Memoirs Of A Dead Woman

Created June 3, 2010 by Nicole Nicholson. Original text used: “Pointed Roofs” by Dorothy Miller Richardson. —————————————————————- This poem was created (I don’t say written, and you’ll find out why in a minute) for We Write Poems Prompt #5: Erasures, … Continue reading →

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