Monday Poetry Prompt

This week’s prompt: erasure poem

We haven’t done an erasure poem in a long time:

1. pick a newspaper article (newspaper or online (print it if you pick an online article)) or a page in a book you are about to throw out… any piece of existing writing.
2. take a black sharpie and read through the article – earmark words that seem important to you (not necessarily in the context of the article)
3. strike through all words (there will be a lot of them) that don’t belong to your poem emerging from this article.

The resulting poems are often quite striking.

Happy Writing!