It's 2021 and Biden won the election! I haven't posted since September, partly because I have learned of other writers who cover the issues better than I can -- Teri Kanefield, Jay Kuo, Heather Cox Richardson, Dave Roberts. For self entertainment, I have continued to compose found poetry. In September of 2020 I learned what a "found poem" is. You "appropriate" other people's words and phrases that you find in newspapers, books, billboards, signs, ads, whatever, and mix them up into a poem. It's literary collage, and like artistic collage, it is a lot of fun. But I'm behind in posting them, so here are found poems created since the last post.
2021 Begins
by Judy Todd, a poem found in the comics section of 1/3/21 LA Times
It’s 2021 and Earth is still here
No one’s moving or saying anything
Keep going, don’t give up, keep going
It’s like they know we’re coming
Catch on to the deeper implications
A new year is not enough
We need to ring in a new mind
And good fortune on the river
Just in case you're curious, here's where they were found:
It’s 2021 and Earth is still here (Jump Start)
No one’s moving or saying anything (Fox Trot)
Keep going, don’t give up, keep going (Non Sequitur)
It’s like they know we’re coming (In the Bleachers)
Catch on to the deeper implications (my horoscope, Taurus)
A new year is not enough (Mutts)
We need to ring in a new mind (Mutts)
And good fortune on the river (Poker)
Winning Is an Inside Joke
by Judy Todd
poem found in headlines of 12/14/20 LA Times sports section
Women dominate
The lesser of two evils
Steal the show
Turn the tables
Overcome themselves
Danger being
The outside noise
The uncertainty
A fierce battle
Sidelined because of virus
Vaccine Ambivalence
by Judy Todd
poem found in the 12/13/20 LA Times comics section
Everyone is feeling positive and optimistic
So it would be crazy to
Hold this pose
Or call from the hijack seat
I’ll gladly take your words out of context
You do this every year
After the turn and river blank
We’re all breaking
It’s worth all the effort
Pulling a boy out of a war zone
Despite their heroic efforts as children
They cannot fix it
Blue is a calm tranquil color
True blue true
Red signals anger, fear and danger
Let’s destroy it
I changed my mind
I want to get out of this nightmare
I want my life back
Let’s escape
Two poems by Judy Todd, found in the Sunday comics of the 10/18/20 L.A. Times:
Pandemic Anxiety
Stay still, here it comes
Boogie shark that box of hope
Our new monster companion
An infectious disease
The few at the top of power
Roll to the right, noses out
Make those at the bottom fear
And step up their game
In the End
Life review is done
You’re good enough
How beautiful it is
To let things go
Internal Dialog
by Judy Todd
poem found in an article, “High on a Mood,” by Mikael Wood in the 10/15/20 L.A. Times Calendar section
Conversation perches at
A yelping moment
An argument to be made
Streams the span
Built in the beginning
Fighting the impulse to please
Harem pants with retainer
Hipped by the typical boogie
Transitioned from random
Struggled to lay the foundation
Fused fuzzy guitars and hot rocks
Before anything blows up
A Relaxing Walk Around the Neighborhood
by Judy Todd
poem found in my surroundings while visiting Sherman Oaks on 10/8/2020
Leaf blowers roaring
Lawn mowers growling
Edgers shrieking
Jackhammer pounding
Helicopter thrumping
Cars motoring
Birds chirping
Crows cawing
Ravens chortling
Planes rumbling
Dogs barking
Skunks stinking
Squirrels scolding
Garbage trucks grinding
Recyclables crashing
Green trucks polluting
See What Happens When
by Judy Todd
poem found in the comics section of 10/4/20 L.A. Times
Humans loud and excited
Dropped out of nature
Floated with a gutshot
Released anger in the river
Opposing forces rained money
And made a polarized range
Pandemic purged hope
A golden age for melancholy
Had a harder time finding a poem in the comic strips this Sunday, so I also searched the Poker Column and the Horoscopes, which are in the comics section. The poker column had the most picturesque language of all, none of which I understood.
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