Dreadful words,
every month they went out
threatening the days,
inflicting tortures,
and often laughing,
for having deprived us of the moon.
This poem is an Erasure. Erasure is a process by which you can take any text and from it, create a poem. You do so by erasing words from the existing text, and the words that remain creates your poem. This poem in its raw format is here.
More of my Erasures.
You can try your hand at Erasures here.
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Dreadful
month out
the days,
tortures,
laughing,
deprived us of the moon….
ha ha
really funny travis!!
Dreadful
month
the days,
tortures,
deprived us of the moon
I think I missed the joke empyvessel.
Travis, I kind of like the raw format version myself. The visual it creates, like others of this kind, adds to the enjoyment of the read beyond the words themselves.
I came across the erasures site some time ago but never did much with it. I’m inspired to try it again!
oh, I like raw format myself too… actually, its the artistic format. I should probably reword that in the post.
i tried erasure work in ur version and found it funny. no jokes pal!
and yes the raw format is more (visually) artistic . wavy,…islandish..each word an island by itself yet floating in the space(sea).. the experience is nice. that’s why i ha ha ‘d :-)
Very cool. Thanks for the insights.