Just playing around with the newspaper. These are my first attempts at blackout poems. Since I don't have a scanner at hand I just typed the words. With added punctuations. But i didn't cheat I promise!
Two Filipino marines wounded;
Two American troopers,
On a humanitarian mission,
Hit a landmine.
A known haven of extremists
Succumbed to injuries
They were not Lawmakes on the otherhand
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Toward midnight
When the rains came streaming
as if from nowhere
In the dark
What caught the eye
Was the asphalt overlay
ripped loose by the strong old man
from the second part of a chain of
center
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Disturbingly odd,
the man seated next to me
broke out in song--
mouthing the words he had given
to hit refrain.
Only giving one's all
He surrendered himself to the music
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Well that's all I got so far. When I come up with better ones (and hopefully more presentable black outs) I will sacn and post them of course. For now I think of these lines as potential poems. Maybe I can spin them into actual (or unactual-?) poetry someday.
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