Ways to Write Seed Pack Poetry Part 1 Seed pack poetry is a form of found poetry, erasure poetry or blackout poetry. Found poetry is a form of poetry where the words are found in a page of text. The poet uses only words found in that piece of text…

Ways to Write Seed Pack Poetry Part 4 Action verbs stimulate the readers’ mind and create physical sensations that give a richness to an image create by the poem. Look for action words on seed packs like touched, plant, harvest, germinate, watch, grow, begin, and pick. Bloomsdale Savoy Spinach (Territorial Seed Company) packed plants grow mature…

Ways to Write Seed Pack Poetry Part 3 Often on the back of seed packs there are words that describe sensations: - Colors we can see like cosmic purple carrots. - Shapes we can see like scalloped leaves of Italian arugula or the long narrow leaves of Tuscan kale. - Textures we…

Found Poetry from The Red Sunflower Diaries and Garden Seed Pack Blackout Poetry Garden peas are edible and have beautiful, often white flowers. The flowers like the peas themselves are sweet and crunchy and taste of peas. Edible garden peas bloom mostly in white, but may have other pale coloring…

Found poetry for April 21, 2022 National Poetry Month “We all self-censor at times. We keep quiet at dinner with our in-laws, or nod passively in a work meeting. But what happens when we take this deception a step further, and pretend we believe the opposite of what we really…

Found poetry for April 19, 2022 National Poetry Month Poetry Challenge “How do the groups you identify with shape your sense of self? Do they influence the beer you buy? The way you vote? Psychologist Jay Van Bavel says our group loyalties affect us more than we realize, and can…

Found poetry for April 18, 2022 National Poetry Month Poetry Challenge In Hidden Brain’s “When You Need It To Be True” Shankar Vedantam covers, “When we want something very badly, it can be hard to see warning signs that might be obvious to other people. This week, we bring you…