Sunday, August 2, 2009

Concrete poetry

A A
when
you need to
~~~~~~~~ relax take a tip ~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~ from the cat in ~~~~~~~
the leaves
in the
sun (caterwauling done)
see the blue sky above, feel
the call of love as the tom next
door licks his silken paws – will
he wink through the fence? feign
indifference? or strut out of view for
a moment or two, then return to
tease? vive les birds and bees!
feel the warmth on your back,
body stretch, relax! be a
laid back cool cat,
king of the wall
cat, hip hop
top cat, nothing can rock cat
aristocrat cat, fat cat


Very silly, but fun. It should have a tail, but I can't get the formatting right on the blog. Does anyone have any other silly examples?

6 comments:

TatankaYotanka said...

Reinhard Döhl is a favourite of mein when it comes to concrete poetry

Try Wurm im Apfel

http://www.reinhard-doehl.de/Image82.gif

AliMunday said...

Ah, now that IS clever, I like the way it eats the apple! Thanks!

Anatol said...

there is also an animated version:
http://artlinks-anatol.blogspot.com/2008/11/reinhard-doehl-2-animated.html

...but i also like schtzngrmmm from ernst jandl a lot:
http://artlinks-anatol.blogspot.com/2009/04/ernst-jandl-austrian-poet.html

anatol

TatankaYotanka said...

http://www.reinhard-doehl.de/image82.gif/

I was still messing about trying to get that link to work ... did you find the applepie tribute as well then?

http://auer.netzliteratur.net/worm/applepie.htm

TatankaYotanka said...

Hi Anton ... I'm sure you know Bob Cobbing as well ....

http://tinyurl.com/l225da

http://tinyurl.com/lhfvkd

AliMunday said...

Thank you both, I gave up on the links and just googled the names, which worked pretty well.