Collage Poetry Recipe: 365 Day collage poetry challenge

Copyright 2007 Diane Curran

The original collage poem recipe

cut-out ingredients

misplaced words

leftovers

recycled language

A dash of truth

A pinch of fantasy

stir up build it

Add something unexpected

Words hit their mark

no matter what happens

the language is sumptious

individual

infused with

creative nourishment

someone asked me how i do my collage the other day, so it got me thinking about my technique (if that's what you call it.) Sometimes I'll have a couple going at once. I'd like to have a dedicated surface so I could leave collages in progress out. However my cat believes that any flat surface is available to him and he makes the most of it. As it is, he has been sitting on a bunch of words today after I finished this poem.

Anyway, by thinkng about how the collage happens, I came up with 'the collage recipe.'

I'm a day behind with the collage at this point. Ironically, i had the day off work yesterday, and I didn't do a collage. I was having caffeine-withdrawal headaches, threatening to become a migraine and I ended up going to bed early.

I wonder if there's such a thing as collage block because that's probably what I'm going through right now. I will catch up.