A Diagram,
A Diagram,
Shazam,
.... Sam, Sam!
watching a movie
just to feel a little less
alone
yet, I'm still alone
in my mind
I softly speak just to hear
and imagine what it might feel like
to hear the voice of someone
someone who loves me
and listens
alone
Poem as depicted here.
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CIRCUMLOCUTION was inspired by the poem, Him & Her Intersection, by Brian Bilston. In the 2015 Great British Write Off, he won the poetry prize for this poem disguised in a Venn diagram. My interpretation of the intersection poem scans differently to his as the intersected part is to be read in a loop, as suggested by the title.
The Venn diagram poem is an interesting intersecting visual poem written inside a two-circle Venn diagram.
It could be written on any subject where a contrasting viewpoint is key to a successful intersection poem. The idea is for the two outer sections (the opposing views) to be read independently taking the intersection into account, for example, xxxxxxxx X / X xxxxxx (the lines don’t have to be of an equal length.) This intersected piece ‘X’ should flow in a logical statement from top to bottom—I aimed for imagistic prose.
M-ind's vivid picture
A-ims to represent each part
P-ainted in surface.
Form: Haikustic
Drew A Diagram
Or is it a diaphragm?
While drawing crowd also did draw a diagram,
And it up does seem like we had tried to ham;
Broke all rules,
With loose tools;
Picture was of some people caught in a scam.
Jim Horn
A ship in a dip is a duplicate of a massive six ton truck echoing at nine miles an hour in a tunnel. Oh traffic rather stoic today. But trafficking is often great fun for gerbils weighing in at over eighty pounds. £ % £ % waffling. Waffles and lots of cream. Iced curves in mazes. Vast tunnels of elephants then. Played with a big shrew in a big field. How great the ears of a geological gelding reading an encyclopedia in reading glasses. The small antique table. Steady hands are hooves. Freezing is the device of a used tabletop tablet score. Wisdom is neither obtained from a scientific sheet or a statistic paper. Lust lusting laughing leering leaning longitudinal leftovers. And a very smiley face of a bin. Bean beaming braking branching. Hahahaha and now a big wave waving. Hahahaha and a minnow. Xxxx jeopardisation. Xxxx palaeontology z
Stagnant saturated rage
Steeped in exhaustion
White knuckles from holding the valve closed
But fat drops still escape and
Plop onto the ground
Little bombs; vicious words;
Daggers thrown from watery eyes
Disregard is more painful that confrontation
It festers and curls blackened tendrils
Around my heart
Pieces of my self are
Falling from a spigot...
Copious streams of anger coursing
Through my body
Laughing, just minutes ago;
I was calm
There is no where for the darkness to go now
It swoops down on everyone around me
Like a nuclear cloud
There is no feeling now for I am merely
A conduit of the emotion
Now distant and cold, fortified in a small place
Somewhere in my head
Once the storm has passed,
Apologies will be required.
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