Monday, April 03, 2023

5840 - Concrete poetry


Cloudia mentioned my Sunday post looked like concrete poetry. I had to look it up. I found many examples. Here are just a few. It's a new genre for me to explore.











There are tons more on Google images.


13 comments:

River said...

I've never heard of or seen these before, they're interesting, but too many will have my eyes spinning.

Elephant's Child said...

I did know of them, and these are great examples.

Mike said...

River - I think I've seen them before but didn't know they had a special name.

Sue - I didn't realize how spot-on my Sunday joke was.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I didn't know this style was called "concrete poetry" either! Thanks!

Kathy G said...

I remember making pictures with the typewriter in high school Typing classes, but in that case we just used Xs.

Shaw Kenawe said...

I had a book of concrete poetry years ago. These a wonderfully inventive and fun to read. Thanks!

Mike said...

Deb - That's your 'learn something new' for today. Take the rest of the day off.

Kathy - You brought back a memory of the female figure we could print out on a teletype machine.

Shaw - What's old is new again.

Margaret (Peggy or Peg too) said...

Learned something new today - concrete poetry. Hmm..

Cloudia said...

Fun examples Mike!

Mike said...

Peg - Me too yesterday.

Cloudia - I think so too.

Kirk said...

I've seen things like that before. I just didn't know it was called concrete poetry.

Bilbo said...

Concrete poetry cements my belief that people will be carried away by almost anything.

Mike said...

Kirk - Me neither.

Bill - Careful. You don't want to cement too many beliefs and turn into a Republican.