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Found poetry is a type of poetry which uses language from non-poetic contexts and turns it into poetry. Think of a collage -- visual artists take scraps of newspaper, cloth, feathers, bottle caps, and create magic. You can do the same with language and poems, by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.

Year 8 student Samara Herpich, wrote an outstanding poem with beautiful imagery.

DESPAIR

"Grief

Oblivion

Nothing matters

I want to fly into a million pieces

Frantic denial and desperate hope

On a wave of incandescent pain

Falling to my knees

I wouldn’t look up

Dim, stark and ugly

Regret…

Sunshine then released the light

I was ready to fly."

Micki Greenham | English Coordinator

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