Found Poem Poem by Adam Sobh
Found Poem
More than Words
PART III: Found Poem
This is my letter to the world (Line 1 from "This is my letter to the world")
That perches in the soul- (Line 2 from "Hope is the thing with feathers")
To comprehend a nectar (Line 3 from "Success is counted sweetest")
To a discerning eye- (Line 2 from "Much madness is divinest sense")
At recess-in the ring- (Line 10 from "Because I could not stop for death")
A wooden way, regardless grown (Line 7 and 8 from "After great pain a formal feeling comes")
Between the heaves of storm- (Line 4 from "I heard a fly buzz when I died")
It yet remains to see (Line 2 from "My life closed twice before its close")
What portion of me be (Line 10 from "I heard a fly buzz when I died")
So huge, so hopeless to conceive (Line 5 from "My life closed twice before its close")
A quartz contentment, like a stone- (Line 9 from "After great pain a formal feeling comes")
My tippet- only tulle- (Line 16 from "Because I could not stop for death")
And all we need of hell (Line 8 from "My life closed twice before its close")
*All of the above lines came from poems written by Ms. Emily Dickinson
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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4/17/2024 10:51:19 PM # 1.0.0.1119
As best I can tell, this is a thoughtful found poem, one that will reward rereadings. The juxtaposition of metaphorically related lines (rather than logical continuity) carries one forward until the somewhat shocking end. BUT, please print the poem without the intrusion of the sources in parentheses after each line. Those make it almost impossible to read. If you want to share these sources with us, do so in a footnote or in your 'your' story of the poem. Much obliged.