I came up with a new game. It's called "Sign Poetry."
It's quite easy. First, you find a sign. Next, you write a poem using the words on the sign. Last, you photograph the poem, word by word.
Here's my poem from a sign next to the Laguna Meadow Trail in Big Bend National Park. The sign is about the Blue Creek Fire.
This is the view behind the sign:
This is the view of me composing the poem while my husband and brother-in-law waited patiently for us get on with our hike:
I posted a bit about found poetry a couple weeks ago. I don't think this game creates found poetry like Andrew Motion's Remembrance Day poem. But maybe you think differently.
Let me know what you think. And maybe even go out and write - and share - a sign poem. With photographs if you can. And if your camera zooms in close enough, I suppose you could use anything printed as the source for your poem.
(P.S. I put my images together using Comic Life.)
6 comments:
Billi came up with this game on the spot when she saw the sign. Also of note to you dedicated readers, this has clear connectivity to the post about the poet who borrowed from the military historian. But also of note, every word in the poem of Billi's has been fully reordered from the sign.
I kind of want to further steel Billi's poem and set it to music and post it but I'm probably to lazy to do that. Anyone else wanna take up the offer?
Billi. This is ingenious. I like it a lot. All I have is pictures of dead deer. My camera will now become an expanded-use tool.
I can't wait, Bo! You see a lot of signs. You'll be the Pedal Poet. I also imagine Central Market signs would make beautiful albeit strange poems. And posters on campus for events.
And Daniel, did you mean "steal" or did you really mean "steel" as you wrote? As in, you would strengthen and improve the poem by setting it to music? I would like to see/hear you steel it.
i believe Daniel meant STEEL! ... like what Chuck Norris' blood is made of
WayneRobert ... maybe you could arrange teh deer carcassssss into letters?
i took pix from signs around Han's school and intend on cutting them up tonight ... it may take a bit, but i will participate
u/b
Uh, yes I meant steel as in metal. Yes. I mean no. I mean I don't know how to spell. I mean I blame it on my parents. It's the'ir fault.
A visual poem of cut and pasted roadkill carcassssss could be quite moving.
Go u/b! (I assume you've been to ChuckNorrisFacts.com. And, by the way, the new retro-postcard-style "DEEP ELLUM" mural on Good-Latimer includes Chuck Norris. And Robocop. I love it.)
And deer carcasses aren't the Village People or a squad of cheerleaders. So please, everyone - signs or print of some sort, not roadkill. (Although it would be an interesting addition to our celebrity handwriting font product. We could make a package that included the Danica Patrick font, the George Strait font, the posthumous Popcorn Sutton font and the Roadkill Bonus font. For vinyl banners, posters and birthday cards.)
Also, sign poetry, when employing a camera, can also be referred to as "photoetry," I've decided.
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