Johns Literacy Group - Found Poetry

John’s Literacy Group - Found poetry

Found poetry is created from other texts we might stumble across, writing on a wall, timetables, a chapter from a novel, a letter. This text inspires us in some way to refashion the text and form the words into a poem. It is an original poem, created out of parts of ‘stolen’ text. Our texts varied from a fact book about snow leopards (Olivia), a poison arrow frog (Jack), a shoe factory (Anna) and a recipe to make brownies (Gretel) , a book on rainbows (Alexa and Nea) and more!

We got ‘stealing’ on Monday and Tuesday- stealing words from the walls around the room and from books lying around - and here are the poems we came up with! 

Rainbow: A Found poem

A rainbow,

a spectrum of light,

Takes form,

multi coloured ark

Caused by sunlight,

always appear,

opposite to the sun,

Can be full circles,

Illuminated above the ground

red on top

violet inside,

Caused by light refracted,

Entering a droplet of water,

then reflected,

inside on the back,

refracted again,

leaving it,

Double rainbow,

Second arc,

seen outside,

the order of its colours,

reversed,

red facing red,

both rainbows.

By Alexa

Schumann the Shoeman

The fancy handy work,

all very organised.

Marvellous inventions,

unusual friends,

slithery, tickly spark clean shoes.

The sensible paint,

crafts into place.

Your heart beams upon the marsh.

The breeze swipes past your face, just like a python.

                                        By Anna

Grey Shoe

The gray shoe walked to the door

Wondered, “how was I hoodwinked?”

That shoeman made me in a grey factory

Gray shoe thought, no wonder his pantry

is full of gray belts and gray

laces.

By Rowan

Snow leopards

The endangered trust,

With the mystical dust,

And maybye not easy to tame.

The mountain chill,

They all know the drill,

All of their cubs they must claim.

Olivia C

                      

 lost by found

First few to none saw it

      no people happened ask

              thing knew nothing

                      lost by found

Information inspected

Hear story

   remember interesting

             unconsciously found

                     usual ordinary beach ago

                                rather particular look

much tirelessly i worked on collection

   reason stopped working

        

what is started it while

   sad sort, seemed weird, out of place

beach stuff continued,

 but wasn't right, something.  

seemed no notice

      was most  sure

         

Insulated with hair,

They must all take good care,

And “snow” always fits in their name

Dramatic decline,

With such little time,

And some have been poached on a flame.

Rare beautiful ,

Oh why they would kill,

Such an endangered small range.

Louise M

Poison arrow

frog 

The poison arrow frog.

The native people are even

afraid to go near it.

One of the poison arrow frogs

has enough poison in one

frog to kill thousands.

 so watch out!

By Jack K

 

Brownie

Thick, Chocolate

Hot, tasty serve,

Serve with pleasure,

Eggs and Flour,

Mix with power,

Turn the heat on to 180,

get a 20x30 tray,

and butter,

Icing sugar make the touch!

                                                                          By Gretel

                                                                           Tuesday

My vintage rose

chillin in the silver lake sun

maroon lips eating

pancakes the flavour of tacos

No Big Deal

feelin lazy and hazy

in my bright blue maserati

My neon ping pong ball

looking as fresh as a daisy

baby chicks walkin past singing

Karaoke

Kids park their cardboard car and it’s

TUESDAY

By Ally