Oulipost #30: Patchwork Quilt Conclude the project by writing a poem that incorporates words and lines from all of your past 29 poems.
Suddenly silent inside
Distant memories coming into focus in dreamlike fashion
All these promises have been made before
We felt an ache beyond ourselves
It tightened the night around us
With reckless abandon,
we sang, then the night sang louder
This is my home
I was completely obsessed
Why?
Alone, a new dawn, touching time
Sweeping dreams – lush, deeply moving
Pathways – wild, unfolding beautifully
Reveal a mystery
It feels ceremonial to go between the two spaces
It’s hard not to be moved
Lean in, close
Transform passions
Focus on the what of what could be
face to face, eye to eye –the end of innocence
A loss for all of us
Mysterious, life rising from the ashes
This holy silence lingers
You are not alone
Sourced from Oulipost #1-29, Kathleen M. Moore, Found Poetry Review, National Poetry Month Oulipost Project. (Originally sourced
from The Contra Costa Times, Bay Area News Group, April 1-29, 2014.)
Very cool .. I love that you were “lifting lines” from yourself to remix your old ideas into new. Lovely.
I wrote about lifting lines from others: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2014/03/14/in-the-poets-defense-i-lift-lines-to-remix-ideas/
This holy silence lingers
a quiet uncommon out here in the chaos
but I hold my breath, drink in the words
and let the voice of a multitude of poets
ring in my ears
-Kevin