… in which she versifies words found in a newspaper article. Other examples.

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INGENUITY HELICOPTER

The parachute, intact,
Its suspension lines
Trailing from the back-
shell, lies in olivine
Along the rocks.

The salmon surface pocks.

This otherworldly wreckage
Has a supersonic message.

My detachment, while alarming,
Shows no obvious signs of charring.
You and your scribe study chaos control.
All to calm my fiery roll.

Most of its words come from here.

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Lit only by the dim background of stars,

Rogue planets, adrift in the Milky Way,

Are bullied children shoved from a schoolyard,

Alone, at the heart of the galaxy.

Its words are largely taken from this interview.

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Water seeping in from thunderstorms made

Changes at the geologic level

Until the pillars of the pool arcade

Put paid to all our revel

A poem taken from a newspaper or magazine article, using words and sentences from the article.

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THE MOON IS RUSTING AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY

The moon is rusting and we don't know why.

Hematite shows, where latitudes are high.

But how can that be, since the moon is dry?

There are a couple theories as to why.



Solar wind calms in our magnetic sky.
Meteors make the surface liquefy.

[These are poems whose lines come from a newspaper article.]

THE BIGGEST HEADWIND IS HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY

Miles of buff-colored subdivisions

And new emotionless algorithms:

So the Phoenix home of Dora Cagnetto

Moves molto molto allegretto.

Selling a home with a handful of clicks

Scales and streamlines decades-old frictions.

And when the housing market cools? Where then

Is paradise? Well. It is a small part of the market.

This one taken from this brief article.

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Mosul Museum

Assyrian bulls with human faces:

Recall, or imagine. In their places

Drilled stone is the most famous absence

From halls of lesser absence.

Imagine Warsaw a museum,

The city leveled to a mausoleum

By arms steadfast and methodical.

That is the museum at Mosul,

Architecture and aesthetic rubbled.

A vast image out of Yeats. Sight troubled.

And yet the millennia-old city

Advertises a new exhibit.

UD likes to write poems whose words are taken from a newspaper or magazine article.

DARKNESS VISIBLE

Imaging hyperspectral, fluorescence,
Revealed the meaning of the hidden notes:
The old precursor text was in essence
A group of sixth-century Roman codes.

She has written many of these (click on this post’s category).

They’re made from the words of a newspaper article.

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PYROSOMES

Spawn of the eastern Pacific transformed
By a blob of water bizarrely warmed,
Something like ghostly Tibetan longhorns:
All over the ocean are pyrosomes.

We don’t even know what they consume.
We only know their luminscent firebody bloom.

Made out of words taken from a newspaper article.

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THREE DAYS INTO MAY

All of this is no more than mere footnote;
Quite good for schadenfreude but little more.
Yet cast your gaze a little farther west…
Oxford! Where finer scandals lie in store.

The source of the poem is here.

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What Will Survive of Us Is Love

A team of excavators find
Bony lovers intertwined.

The crania of their burial bones
Have been pelted by occultic stones.

The point of the exercise, as you know, is to make a poem out of words taken from a newspaper article.

Here is the article.

Here is the poem, whose title is the article’s headline.

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CASSINI SHOCKED BY SATURN’S SPONGY MOON

Cassini’s shocked by Saturn’s spongy moon
(Craggy porous distant Hyperion).

Value as we study interactions
Between humanity and solar winds.

[A poem made up of phrases from a newspaper article.

For the original article, go here.]

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Vaguely Decasyllabic Newspaper Poem

Ancient Herculaneum was chic.

Well-furnished rooms, with views out to the sea.

Mosaic scrolls, monastic libraries.

Unlock the scrolls of Herculaneum!

But the scrolls tend to go to pieces.

The ink is dull black and iridesces.

Some pieces, the eye can make out nothing.

Black lines on a pale grey background,

Black dust of the scroll powdering.

Not all the villa’s scrolls have been unrolled;

The scrolls are tightly wound and creased.

Still…  orphan fragments make a text:

hold power… think… with a moderate force

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Fiber; sand; the structure of papyrus…

What further scrolls remain there still?

Early editions of Aeneas…

UD hasn’t done one of these in awhile. This one’s largely taken from the language in this BBC article.

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EVERY FIFTH STAR HAS A PLANET LIKE EARTH

Every fifth star has a planet like earth,
One in five suns a habitable world.

Interplanetary Waldens.

UD, long-term readers know, likes to write these. You can only use phrases from a newspaper article. Slight alterations are permitted.

Click on this post’s category – newspaper poem – to read earlier UD efforts.

Here’s one for today, from this article.

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Canterbury Tale

Lighter than water, the rocks quickly rise
To cover an area Belgium-size.

Devoted readers know I like to write these. Here are a few. I take a newspaper article and make a poem out of it.

Here’s the article from which I’ve made my latest newspaper poem.

Here’s the poem:

A Lunar Crash Won’t Hurt the Moon

And the rock resumes
Its even, meteoritic,
Temper.