Without really paying attention, I picked up few flyers, packets etc. from the SUB hoping one of these would provide me with the content for a decent found poem. I looked over what I had collected a little later on in the day, and decided on a pamphlet titled "The Network of Spiritual Progressives." I think it's having something to do with a branch of the campus ministry and what not, but the words in some of the articles seemed promising and even potentially poetic. I narrowed it down to allow myself only the material from a small, two paragraph section called "Rejecting Cynical Realism." It took a little while to come up with anything very appealing, but after a lot of reorganizing, I sort of went with a theme along the lines of good vs. evil, or optimism & pessimism. And so I created my first found poem.
To Live like...
Accepted:
A selfish world of
Deteriorating hope,
Small cynical vision
Dog-eat-dog fantasies
Dominant inequalities
Pursuit of poverty
Motives of hunger and
Uncaring people,
To Seek:
Generosity and goodness
A world based on love
Celebration of Compassion
A pursuit of centeredness to
Protect ourselves,
People will advance
To have justice and
Accommodate transformation,
We have a choice.
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