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picture of two ships and picture of rubber ducky. Text reads: So Far From Any Country’s Coastline - a found poem Offshore plastic Enters ocean gyres Few seafarers ever cross A gyre within a gyre Pacific trash vortex As far as the eye could see Never found a clear spot Western near Japan Eastern between Hawaii and California Highway that moves debris from one patch to another Swirling ocean currents Plastic inflow greater than outflow Island of trash floating A cloudy soup Tiny bits of plastic Intermixed with larger items, Such as fishing gear and shoes Containers, bottles, lids, Bottle caps, packaging straps, Eel trap cones, oyster spacers, ropes, and fishing nets Plastic bags, bottle caps, plastic water bottles, and styrofoam cups Bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments Rubber duckies 34,000 pieces of hockey gear Ghostnets
picture of brown, fuzzy, long-legged laysan albatross and sleek grey to black leatherback sea turtle. Text reads: Dominance of marine sourced plastics Purposely engineered durability in the marine environment Accidental and deliberate gear losses Due to inclement weather and illegal fishing Derelict fishing gear Block sunlight Entangled in abandoned plastic fishing nets Known as “ghost fishing” Often mistaken for food by marine animals Loggerhead sea turtles Laysan albatross chicks Making their way up the food web that includes humans Leach out and absorb harmful pollutants Polyethylene and polypropylene Bisphenol A (BPA) Plastics can also absorb PCBs Enter food chain when consumed Ephemeral purpose More than 40% only used once More produced in the last decade than ever before Manufactured in 12 different countries 9 different languages
picture of plastic trash back bagging parallel grooves into the bottom of the sea. Text reads: Photodegradation Break into tinier and tinier pieces The effects of sun, waves and marine life Sinks to the bottom of the ocean Accumulating in sediments and underwater canyons Underwater trash heap Negative impacts on the economy and marine habitats Impact on tourism, fisheries and aquaculture, and (governmental) cleanups Nets designed to scoop up trash would catch creatures as well 67 ships one year to clean up less than 1%
No nation will take responsibility **Lebreton, L. ,et al. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Rapidly Accumulating Plastic, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22939-w, 2018 **The Ocean Cleanup, https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/, 2022 **Evers, J, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, National Geographic Society, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch, 2022
Human nature seems to want to pass responsibility for ills. Let's do better. #poetry #ecology #pacificgarbagepatch #foundpoem #commons
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Blackout poem where blue shapes cover all the words in a piece of text except: Discover a space in which meaning isn’t closed or completed energizing what we say
Discover *your* space
#blackoutpoeem #poetrysky #foundpoem
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same as it ever was
same as it ever was
same as it ever was
#haiku #poetry #twelve
#TalkingHaiku #foundpoem
@chrisfrantz.bsky.social
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Uplands
Only reapers
Hear a song
Winding clearly
By the margin,
By the moon—
On either side,
Shadows of the world
Meet the sky.
A space echoes airy
Listening, whispers—
Dusk.
A #foundpoem created from “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred #Tennyson.
#ladyofshalott
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#poem #lostpoem #foundpoem
one night
I found a stray poem
hungry, looking lost and
wandering in an alley
I fed it, brought it home,
taught it a few tricks
and now it follows me
wherever I roam
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You see, a poet is wounded into speech, and he examines those wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them (Nova, Samuel Delaney) * In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, /-iz/ is used not only after /s z s z c j/ but also after /sp st sk/ (An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, H. A. Gleason) * Farmer's Wife Hints: Keep cool (yoghurt carton) published in Unlost 25, 2021 © Peter J. King
Three found poems.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #unlost #foundpoem #foundpoetry #unlost
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Such a longing
#streetart #nyc #thebronx #eastcoastkin #urbangaze #stickerbomb #foundpoem #foundpoetry #stickers #stickerart
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#foundpoem– a series of idioms coined by #WilliamTyndale, who contributed almost as many if not more to the English language than even #Shakespeare?
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#foundpoem each bird name a flick of a call or whisking wing 🪶
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Page in a notebook. Black and white page from a magazine was torn in pieces, glued down, then some of the papers were ripped back out, leaving large bits behind on the notebook page. On top of that, in the center are words cut out from different books, arranged to say: These were shards of / death / bitter on my tongue. / hard / years / heavy head. / I coped with matters/ yet so much was missing
Page from a notebook with words written in cursive in black ink. The words cover the page, cross over each other, and are mostly illegible. Near the bottom are the words "Tell the truth we were more than this I know it" which is the emotional tone of all the other words.
Notebook page with the words "schizo" in red ink sprinkled around. The lettering varies each time. In the center of the page is a Post-It note which has been typed on using a typewriter. The note reads: "I think I am not human and I can't handle this experience of trying to be so part of me leaves when it needs to. Why do I have to be so different? What am I supposed to do with that?" The text contains some errors, mistypes that were "crossed out" by going back and typing Xs over them. Surrounding the Post - It is a journal entry in black ink. It begins: "Update: they were wrong about me all along" the entry is written in cursive, and parts are illegible. The journal entry is a lament about being misdiagnosed with a psychotic disorder, when the symptoms were in fact trauma responses (i.e. blunted affect, dissociation).
Scans of old notebook pages.
1. A found poem
2. A vent
3. The grief of having a trauma response misdiagnosed.
#artyear #SmARTist #contemporaryart #artjournal #journalart #journaling #Foundpoetry #foundpoem #artistsofbluesky #mentalhealth #arttherapy #analogart #analogueart
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vraic.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/t... Included in today's post is a #foundpoem that uses text from #Omens and #Superstitions of Southern India, published in 1912.
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A handwritten note in childish writing. It says: On Sunday I went to the musik festble and I lost two people 1 is colled Riyn.
Found this among my old papers. I must have picked it up somewhere at least 25 years ago. #foundPoem
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Dammit, forgot to add #poem
#foundpoem
to the above post
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Found poems.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #unlost #foundpoem #foundpoetry
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If you have the time, read this passage aloud, then read the margin note left by a previous borrower.
#marginalia
#georgesperec
#amanasleep
#foundpoem
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The page of a book is blacked out to reveal a few words forming a poem - these are called "found poems". This poem reads: There is dark beauty here where moose and grizzlies dwell. Travel mountains with rainy skies or settle down in creekside thickets of alder, willow and birch. You stand atop a land that will remain forever wild.
A little #foundpoetry this evening. Check out my newest substack article for the dedication story of this poem as well as a super exciting announcement. Here I come #writingexcuses cruise!
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#foundpoem #aspiringauthor #writer
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The Ghost Wolves of Galveston Island
This is the first of my Hiatus Poems of found text I began collecting during the 2020 COVID lockdown and continued as life got back to abnormal.
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#poetry #writinglife #poemsky #poems #foundtext #foundpoem #poemaday #absurdity
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#foundpoem 39/40
From @sarahbessey.bsky.social
#stunday #smallpoemsunday #easter #eastersunday #prayer #poem #poetry #blueskyartshow
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I hear what’s missing
in my prayers. Attention
to the needs of others.
Admission of my short-
comings. A little more
Christology. Dear God,
You don’t seem to mind.
These days I say much
less. We both know
the prayer is in the silence
that comes after.
#foundpoem from @sarahbessey.bsky.social
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You tore
down
the
veil.
Keep
our
hands
from
rehanging
that
curtain.
#foundpoem from Sarah Bessey
#lent #goodfriday #prayer #poem #poetry #micropoem
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35/40
Ragged breath becoming
steady, then still, until
I am all ears for You.
Oh Thou Who Art—
Breathe on me—Receive
the fine ash
of my sadness.
Blow a seed my way.
#foundpoem from Barbara Brown Taylor
#poemsabout #gutterprayer
#poem #poetry #micropoem #lent #prayer
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The Kyrie a persistent
protest.
Roots
anchored
to the soil.
Words
that live
on the edge
of winter
and spring.
We sing.
#foundpoem from Rev. Mihee Kim-Kort
#foundpoems #lent #prayer #poetry
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33/40
Become acquainted
with the silence in your soul.
The sound might surprise
you. Sometimes breath is the only worship needed.
#foundpoem #tanka #tankathursday #lent #prayer
From @sarahbessey.bsky.social
Photo from Hobe Sound, Florida
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Sit at the edge
of the water
and be satisfied.
This isn’t
the province
of multi-taskers.
Life is happening. Feel it
in your body like poetry
is meant to sound.
32/40 #foundpoem #sarahbessy #lent #prayer #poem
Photo of my nephew!
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