The Found Poetry Project

August
Seniors
Welcome

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Written by Anonymous
McDonald’s Marquee
Stoughton, MA, 2004

. . .

Set the scale
to zero
before using

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Written by Anonymous
Scale in Men’s Locker Room, YMCA
Boston, MA, 2009

. . .

Entering
Beverly

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Written by Anonymous
Beverly, MA, 2009

Found by Paul Hostovsky
Boston, MA

Amy Earheart kept a book
wrote down the details
of her baby girl’s activities.

The final entry
the most revealing

“I overheard her
talking to herself she said
‘If you are not here to talk to

I just whisper
in my own ears.’”

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Written by Lynda Pflueger
Amelia Earheart: Legend of Flight
Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2003, p. 14

Found by Sandra Leigh
British Columbia, Canada

The translucent silvery
Delta Smelt
is rapidly disappearing.
Soon the only shiny
things we’ll find in the water
will be a woman’s lost earring
shimmering on the river bottom.

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Written by NPR + Memory
All Things Considered
NYS Thruway, Date Uknown

Found by Alana Sherman
Woodbourne, NY

Alana: This found poem was sort of invented. It comes from what I remembered from a news report on NPRs All Things Considered heard while I was driving, probably too fast, in my car on the NYS Thruway.

The “I do”
The pounding heart
The beautiful bride
The amazing start

Thinking “oh my gosh”
Wishing parents could be here
crying because the one you love
is the only one near

This is what we have always wanted
What we dream about
Is this really going to happen
or could we back out

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Written by Kevin O’Leary
US Weekly, Vol. 721, pp. 46-53
“Yes, We Eloped,” 12/8/08

Natalie Cook
Denver, NC

Natalie: “This is an article on Heidi and Spencer from The Hills when they got married in Mexico.”

Denied yesterday                   by Dr. Ibrahim B.
director of preventive medicine
General Authority                   for Veterinary Services
of the Ministry of Agriculture                   reports
about the presence                   of human cases
of avian horses.

Dr. B.
by operations room body                   veterinarian’s best
to follow the daily movement of the virus
in the provinces.
The sampling of the lake                   and the oases of Kafr el-Sheikh
and Wadi Natrun show integrity and denied.
B. was echoed
by Dr. Mohamed F.                   the possibility of transmission
of influenza virus cats                   to humans
through bird.
He said that possibility does not                   exist.
And Dr Mohammad F.                   to the spread of
equine influenza virus in Egypt                   by 20% between horses.