Showing posts with label found poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label found poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 333 Take 2: Fifty years ago



FIFTY YEARS AGO

November 18
Holt government decreed

legal
for married women to work

public service.
marriage bar

repealed
50 years ago

quite recently
women would get the sack
we clung

female public servant
no longer capable

working women
marched to the door.

their daughters
work every day

16 per cent less
than male

pay gap
stuck

a long way to go


Lizz Murphy - Poem 333: Fifty years ago (found poetry)



FIFTY YEARS AGO

working women
gender pay gap
stuck
16 per cent

a long way to go

November 18
Holt government decreed
legal
for married women to work

public service.

quite recently
women would get the sack
we clung
female public servant
no longer
capable
working women
marched to the door.

marriage bar

Harold Holt
repealed
50 years ago

daughters
work every day
16 per cent less
than
male 


Sunday, November 27, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 332: Woman in a man's world (found poetry) Nod to Susan Hawthorne


Nod to Susan Hawthorne #77 How do you protect yourself from rape?

WOMAN IN A MAN’S WORLD

dagger-like
bright pink
self-defence ring
comfortable,

unthinkable
weapon

vigilance
routine
Rape alarms.
Pepper spray

step up,
pay the price

extra precautions
every day,
crossing the street,
doubling back,
avoiding
clenching fists,
walking faster
countless others
instinctively.

It still doesn’t stop
harassed, assaulted raped.

new data
shocking
every day
behaviour
plans
peace



Monday, November 21, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 325: Contents (a found poem)


CONTENTS
GRAFFITI ARTIST     
OUTCAST 
A WOMAN WAITS
BONE           
LOOKING FOR THE POETRY IN BONES     
LEAVES IN GREEN           
MYTH BREAKER    
I AM A CROWD
IN MY ARMS
SOME ARE QUIET ABOUT IT     
THAT MOMENT WHEN WE WERE ALL SEABIRDS AGAIN
IT COULD BE WORSE                       
TWO DOLLARS A DAY
COUNTING ON MY FINGERS
THROUGH A CHILD’S EYES
CHOCOLATE FIX     
WHO’S COUNTING           
A GIRL IS PRIMPED
MAKESHIFT SHELTER     
THE SHOOT     
OPEN SEASON
CLATTER     
HALF-SENTENCED     
JEREMIAD     
BEAK BLUE AS MUSSEL SHELL
HEAT WAVE
HER BENT HEAD
THISTLE-GREY           
I AM A FOX
BACKLIT     
DANGEROUS WOMEN     
SHE SCRAPES OFF HER OWN MOUTH             
AERIALS
THREE DUCKS FLYING ACROSS THE ROAD     
TRIAD            
IT’S A CHEMO DAY
A WOMAN IS BLINDED     
A WOMAN IS RAPED           
A WOMAN THREADS           
A RUSH OF LEAVES
WOMEN MY AGE
NOW VIEWING     
UNCUT
WILDS
THE WOMAN IN THE POEM

Yass poet Gregory Piko thinks the Contents in my latest collection Shebird 
(PressPress 2016) read like a poem. I'm taking his word for it :) Thanks to Greg.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 311: Score



SCORE

score
essence movements
hand holding patterns
black minimalist
forefront ideas
dynamic intention
standing contrast
opted experimental
fluidity approach
gripping process
ambitious changes
capable works


Friday, November 4, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 309: feverish beast



feverish beast
tinkering buttons
two-backed shame 


just a little random word thing 

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 241: In it, "the artist






In it, "the artist

did something radical which

"It adds more layers
she said                              

loosening 
mood.      

closer to shards,

or meaningless rhetoric

accessible to anyone. You can just be sitting

he painted this piece,

that symphony,

similarly absurd exercise."


                  

Monday, August 22, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 233: How computers shape our feelings (10) - Panic attacks



PANIC ATTACKS

panics after waking

black 

rapid heating 

lost the capacity to start up 

these panics do not occur during normal usage, 

panic log 

-Turned deep sleep off


that doesn’t work, erase the disk


— found text from computer forums



Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 226: How computers shape our feelings (5) - Overload




OVERLOAD 

i am afraid of overload and disable 
i don't trust the overload 
i don't trust/to minimize the danger of overload, 
I don't know the cause 

i think Microsoft is responsible for my overload


— found poem based on text from a support forum

Monday, July 4, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 186: Fifty-fifty (found poem)



FIFTY-FIFTY

fewer than one in five voters think
a looming dead threatens to erode

— random found text from SMH July 1, 2016


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Lizz Murphy - Poem 181: Shortage (found poetry)



SHORTAGE

score
essence movements
hand holding patterns
black minimalist
forefront ideas
dynamic intention
standing contrast
opted experimental
capable works
fluidity approach
gripping process
twice step
ambitious changes



— Found poem using random words from an 
article in Panorama, Canberra Times June 25, 2016


Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Lizz Murphy — Poem 131: Living alone



Found text from CareSearch [accessed online May 17, 2016] 
URL: http://www.caresearch.com.au/caresearch/tabid/1417/Default.aspx

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Lizz Murphy — Poem 125: Rapid



RAPID

Rapid buildup
provoke conflict
deposits of oil
ground-attack planes
lay the foundation
people killed
collapsing walls
evacuate homes
nuclear power plants
the quake
mounting pressure
vote for the war
his lack of depth
engulfed in flames


Found poem — text from The Canberra Times April 16, 2016