.
writing from down
the sink,
where "elevated
levels of ammonia,
nitrogen, and permanganate, a
chemical
used in metal cleaning,
tanning
and bleaching"
has the waterworks churning red
the flowing foamy
Han tributary
turning to ruby
ink
industrial wasteland
pumping the bloodflow
into the Dongjing
like Sanzu, like the Styx
200,000
in Hubei province
fallen short with
nothing
left
to
drink
***
writing from up
the waterworks
where Emerald City's
Department of Water
municipal water
is prize winning water
water to grace your tap
in L.A.
"Take Back the Tap" they say,
less plastic waste that way,
call a green rainbow so
rivers could all go
recover their old
transparent non-
colors
These are poems I wrote while reading the news, poetic commentaries citing various real news items in hypertext. I hope my News Poems give you at least as much pleasure and inspiration as the media sources they draw on.
Trawling the Scrapyard
Each poem is linked to a news article on the internet, or several. Click on the hypertexts to find the news clippings, reference pages and quoted texts. Have fun, explore!
Poetry People
Tie Ins
reading it out.
makin' news, on the beat.
5 comments:
its appalling how polluted our waters are, across the world
Is this a Found poem? Where you get the lines from other literacture. I love those. Its interesting to see others words weaved into your work.
re: Found poem, no, the "quoted" lines aren't from literature, they're mostly from news articles, but the idea is similar: the links lead to source texts.
That's really an interesting way to create a poem.
:) that's the idea for the whole Poet's News blog... and as far as I know, nobody else is blogging this way.
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