Blackout Poetry
Emotional Intelligence
https://youtu.be/erfgEHHfFkU?si=OgF9984FIgWBvP4C
Emotional Intelligence assessment
Rich Roll
https://youtu.be/kyUF7T-qhMA?si=08YchGsSBY2ZzcRs
https://freeology.com/wp-content/files/iampoem.pdf
https://www.jadeeby.com/journal/using-blackout-poetry-to-heal
Blackout poetry, also known as erasure or redacted poetry, are all types of found poetry. Specifically, found poetry has a goal of using pre-existing or "found" text to create something new. Portions of the original text are kept, while other parts are drawn over or crossed out. Well-crafted blackout poetry can give new meanings to old texts. In addition to the words themselves, often times the artwork created by blacking out words can also contribute to the poem's meaning.
Some examples of found sources include: newspapers, magazines, books, and journals. Poems in this style can be short or long, abstract or concrete, carefree or tragic. All you need to do is:
Identify the text you want to use.
Make note of meaningful words, phrases, or ideas.
Mark out the text you wish to exclude from your poem. You can blackout text with lines or even drawings.
https://austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/
https://www.pinterest.com/krenapoole/blackout-poetry/
https://sccld.org/blogs/post/what-is-blackout-poetry/
Mind Wanting More
Only a beige slat of sun
above the horizon, like a shade
pulled not quite down. Otherwise,
clouds. Sea rippled here and
there. Birds reluctant to fly.
The mind wants a shaft of sun to
stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky
with its barred wings, some dramatic
music: a symphony, perhaps
a Chinese gong.
But the mind always
wants more than it has—
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed
with the moon; one more hour
to get the words right; one
more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket
in dried grasses—as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren't enough,
as if joy weren't strewn all around.