Poetry is everywhere...

In my Creative Writing class, my students are learning how to create found poetry. Found poetry requires a person to look for poetry in written or spoken words. In found poetry, the poet gathers a collection of words, phrases, etc. to create into his/her own poem.

For those of you who know me well, you know that I geek out with poetry. It is a true passion of mine. But, in all my years of writing and studying poetry (I've been writing it since I was 11) I have never written a found poem. So, I thought I would try my hand at it today...please be graceful with them, they are a work in progress :)

Life, According to a Coffee House Bathroom Stall
Snippets from a chalkboard in a bathroom stall at the Coffee House
in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska

Life always comes down
to making your own choices

I am the master
of my fate

I am the captain
of my soul

Find
something that brings you closer to complete

Be too happy to be
perfect

May your organs
fail
before your dreams
fail

Know thyself

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More snippets from the bathroom stall chalkboard at the Coffee
House in Lincoln, Nebraska

there is too much
grey
and not enough
black and white

ours is a World of
Nuclear Giants
and
Ethical Infants

if I change myself
I change the world

power to the Peaceful