{"id":953,"date":"2015-06-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyndalambert.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2015-06-19T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:24:55","slug":"disappearing-poem-writing-assignment-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/disappearing-poem-writing-assignment-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disappearing Poem – Writing Assignment #23"},"content":{"rendered":"

~ Walking by Inner Vision Journal –<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Disappearing Poem<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Writing Assignment #23<\/p>\n

June 20, 2015<\/p>\n

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Photo: Hotel Balcony by Lynda McKinney Lambert.<\/p>\n

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This is one of my all-time favorite ways to write a \u00a0poem. I think you will enjoy it, too. In this poem, we make words DISAPPEAR to create \u00a0NEW meanings. Voila’ just like MAGIC – It’s so much FUN!\u00a0will begin this poem by selecting some documents, such as a newspaper, birth certificate, letters, restaurant menu, junk mail, advertisement, phone book, dictionary, etc.<\/p>\n

Let us begin this poem by selecting some documents, such as a newspaper article, E-mail advertisement, birth certificate, letters, restaurant menu, junk mail, advertisement, phone book, dictionary, etc.<\/p>\n

If you select a document that is an original and you don’t want to destroy it, then make a copy of it and use your copy to create the poem. (Put the special document safely away so it does not get mixed up with the copy.)<\/p>\n

I chose to use an em-al advertisement I received this week, from Travelocity.<\/p>\n

Follow my guidelines to create your own poem.<\/p>\n

1._Take your document and begin to erase or remove words – in whatever way you decide to do it. I like to scribble over the word until it is obliterated. You can take words away and you can add any words you like. \u00a0I copied and pasted my E0mail advertisement. Then, I went through it and used the strikeout function to mark the words I wanted to delete from the poem I would be writing.<\/p>\n

2._ Type up the document using only the remaining words you did not strike out. \u00a0You can rearrange the formatting. You can delete punctuation, capitalization, etc. I chose to remove the words and punctuation from the original, but I kept the capitalization which gives the poem a different kind of feeling and voice as it is read aloud. It gives a sense of movement and a bit of instability because unusual patterns of punctuation are unexpected.<\/p>\n

3._Arrange your new “poem” on the page in any way that makes sense to you.<\/p>\n

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Poem Title: \u00a0 \u201cTerms and Conditions\u201d<\/p>\n

My source:\u00a0 Travelocity:\u00a0 E-mail to me on June 17, 2014.<\/p>\n

Here is the quote\u00a0 I will use as \u201craw material\u201d to do a \u201cDisappearing Poem.\u201d You can see how I used the strike-through function on unwanted words. \u00a0Quote from advertisement follows:<\/p>\n

TERMS & CONDITIONS<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n