Are you familiar with found poems? To make a found poem, you "find" a poem within some other text. Blackout poems, like what Austin Kleon does, are found poems. IMPERFECT poet Robyn Hood Black talks about found poems on her blog.
Here's one that IMPERFECT poet Kat Apel created from our cover reveal:
Kintsugi
Precious scars
filling cracks
with liquid gold,
mended
more beautiful;
broken history
displayed with pride;
imperfection golden.
A blog for the book IMPERFECT: a poetry anthology for middle schoolers about mistakes
How can we make the most of useful mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.
Beautiful, Kat! I'm honored to be in this collection, AND delighted it is inspired by kintsugi. I was intrigued when learning about that a while back, and then after injuring myself a time or two in recent years, I appreciate the idea even more! ;0) Thanks for sharing, Tabatha.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Tabatha - and glad you liked, Robyn. I too may know a thing about scars - though none of mine are filled with liquid gold. :) Also - got to love found poems. They really are so much fun!
ReplyDeleteWonderful poem Kat, I was so intrigued when I learned that the Japanese fill their broken pottery with liquid gold–thanks for this lovely found poem!
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely idea, isn't it, Michelle.
DeleteWhat a beautiful poem, Kat. "Precious scars"--I love the different, empowering perspective of kintsugi.
ReplyDeleteThank-you, Molly. I find it hard to throw out cracked pottery/ceramics - though I've never yet healed them with gold, either. (There could be a reason for that. :P)
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