Thursday, April 7, 2022

#100DayProject Found Poetry


Thank you Poetry Friday crew for always being so welcoming. I float in and out of this gathering, and I appreciate the kindness extended when I do return. This week's round-up is hosted by Janice at Salt City Verse.

My poetry project for this month has been rocky. But for good and exciting reasons. I have been nominated for two different teacher of the year awards these past few weeks, and I have been working on getting that material together. Exciting but the stress has left me little time for writing.

I also began a #100DayProject to dedicate a short amount of time each day to create. One of my favorite ways to create is through found poetry using words from magazines. In the past, I have written them on black construction paper and then put the words back into my stash. With this project, I finally bought a sketchbook, and I am gluing them in it. 

Today I share with you numbers 4-6. Click here to see 1-3.




I hope to get back into my monthly project this weekend - I have some catching up to do.

15 comments:

  1. Your poems could be used as precepts. Open to possibility. Good luck with your nominations. I did one this past fall and it was a lot of work. I had to remember things that I have done. I had not kept a very good vita sheet.

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  2. Congratulations on your nominations! How wonderful! Your poems are all inspiring from the memory box, to spring, to possibility. I love the way they look on the page.

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  3. Oh, I love them all, used to do some of this, maybe another time, Leigh Anne. I adore "Just ask April." Congratulations on your nominations, so awesome! I'm sure it's well deserved!

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  4. These are fabulous. I need to return to journaling everyday.

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  5. Do you collect the words and scatter them in a large tray and let them call to you? I love your found poems! Thank you! And congratulations on your awards!

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  6. So much fun! Congrats on being nominated. I love playing with words. I'm always amazed by how fun it is.

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  7. Leigh Anne--congratulations on your wonderful nominations! I'm not surprised at all :>) And thank you for sharing your creations. These are so lovely. It's funny how so many poetry approaches that I love involve some method that forces me to use a word bank that puts words/phrases together that I wouldn't come up with on my own...

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  8. I love your creations and congratulations on your nominations!

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  9. This is one of my favorite things to do...play with cut out words. My favorite? "Just ask April." How wonderful that you are taking care of your mind in this way...sorting, arranging and gluing it all down in a new way. Many congrats on your nomination. It's quite a year to earn such.

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  10. Congratulations on your nominationS - two! Wow! Your found poetry is a delight: "just ask April". I'm glad you 'found' time to share with us. :)

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  11. Leigh Anne, first of all congratulations on the award nominations! I love your creativity project for this month/100 days. "Just ask April" and "discover reasons to love" are just lovely.

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  12. Congratulations on your nominations! I love all of these poems and hearing about your process.

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  13. These are wonderful! I particularly love the third one. Very inspiring! Congratulations on your nominations.

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  14. Congratulations on your award nominations. It is so wonderful to be thought of so highly. I love your inspirational quotes and hope that you will offer the two spring collages for my Poetrylicious Gallery. Of course, any other image poems would also but I thought those would comprise an inspirational quote section.

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