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Writer's pictureErin James

Collaborative 'Found' Poem /"Mindmap"

Found poem: Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems.*1


This found poem was the result of a creative writing workshop I hosted independently during my research fellowship, with Ardingly College. I invited the participants of the workshop to give me one word to describe their experience of the workshop. The words that were collected were written down, and I then wrote a "poem" / mindmap around these words.


Listen to the poem here:


See the poem below


Scroll down past the image to see the poem written down in text




My soul is UNAFRAID

DREAM team - pen & paper

I feel SAFE at school?!

Works BEAUTIFUL?!

AWEING

POWERFUL

ENLIGHTENING to just connect

Write and reflect

MEMORIES for this moment and maybe some more

FREEING feeling from what I'm dealing with

INSPIRING...brain rewiring, creative mind complying, fears slowly dying

INCLUSIVE

REFRESHING reflections

A new rhyme scheme smells like fresh air

Tastes like hope

KNOWLEDGE BROADENING

Information truly is power

POWERFUL both the work and myself

INSPIRATIONAL

REFLECTIVE meditations

STUPENDOUS

EYE OPENING

May they never close...



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