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Category: Found Poems

A list of found poems

Here is a list of various found poems that I have made over the years. Happy holiday reading and looking … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

We never keep to the present

    We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found … More

Blaise Pascale, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Pensees, Presence, reading poems, Reading Poetry

A list of found poems

  As the holiday season continues I repost this list of various found poems that I have made over the … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

The Year of Living Deeply 20: Poems hatch – a found poem by Marge Piercy

Poems hatch Poems hatch from memory, fantasy, the need to communicate with the living, the dead, the unborn. Poems come … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Collected Essays, Creativity, Found Poems, Found Poetry, Marge Piercy, New York Times, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Writers on Writing

A list of found poems

Here is a list of the found poems I have been posting over the summer, including older posts from last … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Who would we be?, by Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect … More

At the Same Time, Being a Writer, Found Poems, Life Lessons, literature, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Susan Sontag, Trusting in the Process, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

This divine breath, by Johann Herder

  A breath of our mouth Becomes the portrait of the world, The type of our thoughts And our feelings … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Calm Things, Creativity, Found Poems, Found Poetry, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poetry, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, Shawna Lemay, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Poets who remain poets, by Stephen Dunn

Young poets Who don’t think of themselves As apprentices Are notorious For resisting influences. They’ve experienced The first stages Of … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Stephen Dunn, Teaching Writing, Trusting in the Process, Walking Light, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Other objects, by Primo Levi

Consider what value, What meaning Is enclosed even In the smallest Of our daily habits, In the hundred possessions Which … More

Creativity, Found Poems, Found Poetry, If This Is a Man, Lifesaving Poetry, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Primo Levi, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Writing, Writing

A need to answer, by Robert Pinsky

  An artist needs not so much an audience as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond. … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Found Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poetry and the World, Poets, Presence, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Robert Pinsky, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

A sense of wonder, by Arthur Frank

The only real difference between people is not health or illness but the way each holds onto a sense of … More

Arthur Frank, At the Will of the Body, Cancer, Dying, Found Poems, Health, Illness, mindfulness, Presence, Recovery

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