from nymag.com (http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/11/nearly-photo-free-fashion-magazine.html)
Style:
sociocultural
psychic
Paris and Notre Dame
cobbled streets in
pencil skirts and blouses
six-inch platform wedges
or maybe just Keds
France and Rome
clever scarf-tying
a casually knotted kerchief from Hermes
Girl Scout troop leader or
paragon of chic?
Dutch and Bhutanese
we are trucking in
sartorial and nationalistic
cliché
boys in knickers and wooden shoes
folks from other places
all looked
universal
distinctive
superficial
in time-tested uniforms
of subtly-coded flock mentality.
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Found from an article entitled “Global Street Style” by Guy Trebay in the September 2013 Travel + Leisure magazine. I will be composing another poem sometime today as well, but it is a complete original and is bound for the submission merry-go-round, so unfortunately I will not be able to share until it is published. (See what I did there?? 😉 )
Confused… you wrote that or you found it?? If you wrote it you are a genius!
PAHAH! Sorry to be confusing! The article in the magazine was about how each region of the world has it’s own distinctive style, and how you can tell a person’s nationality many times just by the way they dress. I then picked out words and some phrases from that article and used them (plus added a few words, too) to compose this poem, rearranging them into a different meaning, you might say. So it is not fully original, because I did not come up with the subject matter or most of the words myself, but it is not copied either, because I gave it a new spin. Does that make sense? A full explanation of this form of poetry (which I only VERY recently discovered and LOVE) is here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5780 Enjoy!
Oh and btw… thanks so much for the comment and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
That’s a new one on me, I think I’m going to have to investigate further… I really like the idea of ‘found’ poetry being created out of existing words. Have you come across Tychogirl (http://tychogirl.wordpress.com/)? She does a very similar thing based around astrophysics – yes, I know how that sounds, but trust me 😀
WOW. Tychogirl is….. AMAZING!!!!!!!! I had not seen her stuff yet, but I am hooked now! Thanks for the recommendation!! Yes, definitely investigate further, I’d love to see some found poetry of your own if you decide to venture in, lol.
This is cool! I like the breakdown of countries. 🙂
😉 Glad you liked, and thanks for the comment!