ACTIVITY: Found Poem with Anaphora

Write something in which:
- each line begins with "In the end"; and
- complete each line by taking words from the first lines of random books from the shelves of the ABP Library.

ACTIVITY: Found Poetry using Anaphora

Today's writing activity emphasized a process.

Each line of your response should begin with "Start with...". In the library, choose a book, go to a specific page, go down to a specific line, and record words from that line. Repeat the same process using a different book. List of as many as possible. The results are your found poem.

For example, I chose to use expressions, phrases and words from page sixteen and line 17 of each book that I selected.

An Assortment of Discontinuous Dreams

Credit: authenticafricanbronzesandceramics

An Assortment of Discontinuous Dreams

     I dreamed Warhead Detonator.

I dreamed the metal artworks of Benin and Ife,

                                I dreamed Urotoxic,

I dreamed moderate delegates fought, 

I dreamed, we don't know what happened...

I dreamed out in the Darkness.

I dreamed upon liability without fault.

I dreamed, with a tempo like a religious prayer.

I dreamed vocal jazz, with costumes and choreography.

I dreamed, "GET ME OUTSIDE!"

I dreamed anything can be collected into a set.

I dreamed...Multiple suicide stab wounds...

I dreamed. Indeed it was unclear...

I dreamed as the blood beat the skin...

I dreamed...Now lets try again...

I dreamed... she blushed again...

-Aly Zein Mohamed

Activity: Anaphora

When the beginning of each line is the same, it is called anaphora. This week, each line had to begin with "I dreamed" and was completed by finding random phrases and words from books in the library. Read some of the results below...

I dreamed the plays of Shakespeare.

I dreamed I don't get back home to my wife.
I dreamed a young philosophy student.
I dreamed Dr. Smith has poor bedside manner.
I dreamed tonal progressions begin and end at the borders of forms.
I dreamed I remember.
I dreamed in the introduction.
I dreamed and then you would like me.
I dreamed there was something hidden inside the Game Boy.
I dreamed before placing a tube cake in the cake server.
I dreamed the earlier experiments had shown that neural adequacy requires about 500 milliseconds for completion.
I dreamed I must stop this whole thing.
I dreamed he had been stupid.
I dreamed nothing miraculous after all.
I dreamed she and her two friends were being harassed.
I dreamed people who ain't too clever.
I dreamed by the rival treasure hunters.
I dreamed demilitarized.
I dreamed after every mass extinction.
I dreamed because it speaks to the secret.
I dreamed it used to be believed.
I dreamed they stopped to rest.