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I did it, I did it! What a challenge, what a sense of accomplishment. Thanks, Vince! Here's the link:
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/2012/05/sea-man.html
I just "found" the finish line:
http://meenarose.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/prompted-wednesdays-a-found-poem-for-a-found-prompt/
Oh, I can't wait! I'll be back tomorrow with a piece and am leaving a link to Project Gutenberg Australia another place to get prose source material without concerns about copyright infringement. http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html. That Wave Books site is uber cool. See you all soon, looking forward to making the rounds to read.
oh these are just frickin cool man...i love the aritistic examples that you have given...props to laurie for sending me over...
Calyx of Held, my first erasure poem http://chromapoesy.com/2012/05/03/calyx-of-held/ thank you!
Very cool, Laurie! :) I love how you "waved" out the words!
Cool, Meena. I need to go over and look at it. "Talk" to you later.
Thanks, Andrea!
Thanks Vince, have never tried this form, but love the possibilities.
Very cool!
Friends, my own (new) erasure poem is done. Please take a peek. Thanks.
Brian, did you try one? I see below that Laurie finished one. Hope you do. And if you do, come back and tell us here. Thanks for your reply.
Laurie, I just left you a comment at your blog. I agree with Andrea ... the waves are a great idea!
Give it a try, Cynthia! Just finished mine. Link below. If you do try it, come back here and tell us! Thanks for your reply.
Hi, Anna. Blogger finally let me in to respond to this. But I've already replied at your blog. Anyway, good poem. I hope you keep playing with this form.
Thanks for the Gutenberg.au link. I'll check it out.
Oh, I see! These are works that have no known author. Very cool for erasure. Thanks again!
Oh, wait. I see (again)! The first few items are works with unknown authors. Cool still.
Just learned of this form and was directed here by Anna Montgomery. Can't wait to try it. Thank you!
Your compositional method is just as exciting as the final version, almost artistic. Have you seen Jonathan Safran Foer's "Tree of Code", an actual artistic book that is an erasure of "Street of Crocodiles"? An amazing objet.
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