todays challange is a calligram -which is a poem that is arranged in a way that creates a visual, usually also expressing what the poem says in a visual way. so, not a random image!
Guillame Apollinaire had some lovely ones – http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Apollinaire_Calligrammes.html
here are mine…
The pictures aren’t great so here is the text for them both:
morecambe mooon
she is full
to overflowing light
spills from her over the
bay sprinkled on salt water
and wet sand xmas lights
but deeper stronger i stagger towards her i stand still me reflected in her
reflected glow
cars calligram
Thecarssswhoooshby somewheretogoontimesomehweretobeseen
Speedtocatchupwith notfastenoughnoontimeplacestobetonotseen
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moremoremoremoremoremore fasterfasterfasterroadkillraodkillroadkill
gogogogogogogogogogogogogogo nosleepnosleepnosquishsquishsquishshh
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whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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icantgoonicantgonicanticantgoonicantgonicant
ifigofastiwillleaveitallbehinditwillflyoffmedust
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nothingnothingnnothingnothingnothingnnothinggg
recklessnessrecklessnessrecklessnessrecklessness
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh
I love the morcambe moon calligraph! It really captures the way the fragmented reflections come together to create a silver path across the sea – or the way the silver path undoes itself and fragments as it approaches our shores.
thank you angharadlois – the swedish have a word for the glimmering, roadlike reflection that the moon creates on water – which is mangata (with a tiny “o” over the first a)… think i may play around with the reflection some more…