Two Cut Up Poems - AC's National Poetry Month Challenge
The Song of Innocence and a Longing for Love
The Song of Innocence
A blind child and a deaf child
And their angel three,
Together sang a song to a ghost;
A precious sight to see.
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A second cut up poem for your reading pleasure.
A Longing for Love
Lady moon father sun comes my way -
Guide me this peaceful calm night,
To the dark man in the moon I look to see;
Watching over me this still night he causes me no fright.
Send me my beautiful lady moon, my shining star;
And if any harm should come this night,
Father Sun will refresh me with his morning light.
Note:Todays National Poetry Month Challenge is to write a cutup poem. This style of poetry was discovered by Brion Gisyn and made famous by William Burroughs. I chose to cutup two of my own copyrighted poems and see what I could make of them. To see the original poem "Innocence" click here. To see the original poem "Lady Moon" click here.
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6 Comments
Post a CommentI love those. Wow!
Your poetry is wonderful
very nice as always !
loved this!
Melissa, I did not like the cutup process at all. I really had a hard time cutting up and rearranging the first on "Innocence" most of all.
After reading this I went to read the origional poems - great work, I am not a fan of the cut up style (aparently), but I really like the origionals "Lady Moon" and "innocence"