Erasure Poetry

It's Poetry Friday and this week I have been exploring Erasure Poetry. It is a poetry form similar to Black Out Poetry. 

Erasure poetry is a form of found poetry created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. The words can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas. Just like Black-out poetry, Erasure poetry require words to be removed, obscured or redacted. What is left becomes the basis of the poem.

For me there exists a sense of joy in unearthing poetic words seemingly buried within a larger text.

Some people see Erasure and Blackout poetry as the same thing. I am inclined to draw a distinction between them because in an Erasure poem the words are typically lifted out of situ and assembled on a different background. Erasure poems also allow some reorganization of the original line order. 

So more writer's notebook experimentation...

This time using the words of The Brother's Grimm to create Erasure Poetry. 

My process was as follows:  

Read, 

Select, 

Copy, 

Cut, 

Tear,

 Assemble 

Paste.

*I invite my fellow poets all - devote some time to dabbling in a little experimental Erasure poetry.