Where the Wolf Found Herself ~~ an Erasure Poem for Weekly Scribblings # 43
Walking through high school's doors
Had almost forgotten
What it was like
Watching change of atmosphere
Everyone is monotone
People are online, all virtual
The shift was from hosting
To being hesitant
Their health failed to stay home
I have friends I understand
Dedicated to teaching change
Switch to in-person
The Second Wolf broadcasts
a long time around--many people
Trying to reprieve her first day back
Found herself to a pep rally
- Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved
- Photo and being an Erasure Poem so that All Words and Characters copied and/or photo copied from Pages A1 and A17, titled "50,000 area students swap screens for being on scene" from the Huston Chronicle, Wednesday October 28, 2010.
- I have linked to Rosemary who asked for an Erasure Poem or Found Poem (I chose the Erasure Poem) for our Weekly Scribbling # 43, at https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/10/weekly-scribblings-43-found-poems-and.html
- My guide lines for the Erasure poem are: (on this blog from a previously posted Erasure Poem, "Wire to Wire", on Wednesday February 12, 2014 at http://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2014/02/wednesday-challenge-fancy-that-kid.html )
- You cannot add text to your poem. All lines must already exist within the news story.
- You cannot change the order of the words or lines. They must appear in the same order which they appeared in the story.
Labels: Erasure Poem, Poem, Poem forms, Weekly Scribbling
posted by Jim @ 10/28/2020 10:42:00 PM
7 comments
7 Comments:
Wow, Jim, you're really good at this! I love what you found to say; brilliant.
You brought it home with the newspaper clippings! All marked for us to see how you constructed the poem. Not an easy task.
Ha! I learned a trick from you here! You took the word "be" and added part of another word, just the end "ing" to make the word you wanted, "being." I never thought of that. I like your use of the newspaper to write something current. Of course, you could take a newspaper and write fantasy or history too, but you wrote well about something on a lot of minds.
Well done, Jim! My expensive and much maligned Cannon printer makes scanning a virtual impossibility, and this challenge warped my senses!! After reading everyone else's responses, I think I made the challenge much more difficult than it needed to be. (Sigh)
This article turned into a very rich source of inspiration for your muse.
So many households are living in your poem these days. New York is about to take away the hybrid option--half virtual, half in person. Many people are upset about it. I hope things get better, somehow.
This is so well done, Jim!
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