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Bring your candle to glitter again
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"Found poetry" (or "blackout poetry") is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions.(From Wikipedia .)
Text reads:
unlock the moonlight,
forge a chain,
bring your candle to glitter again.
This one was a bit different. Once I'd thought of "unlock the moonlight, forge a chain", for some reason the cadence of what I had so far made me want to look for a rhyme. And then I had to make it go round in a circle
I think this is my favourite so far. I like that it could be metaphorical or literal (obviously not real-world literal, but fantasy literal) and I like the way the rhythm (and rhyme) makes it sound like a spell or a chant of some kind.
It almost seems like the first verse of something...?
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Edit: It's a photocopy, guys. Please stop asking!
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Hello!
As part of 's Found Poetry: Titles as Art project, I've used the title of this wonderful deviation in a poem here:
Tell Me What You've Gone and Done Now
Thank you so much!
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Your wonderful literary work has been chosen to be featured by =DailyLitDeviations in a news article that can be found here: dailylitdeviations.deviantart.… Congratulations on your DD!
Be sure to check out the other artists featured and show your support by 
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I've never seen this kind of work, but I like it. Congratulations on your DD.
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I came across your poem on Wil Wheaton's Tumblr , that's seriously amazing!
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You got reblogged by Neil Gaiman here ! Congratulations, that's amazing!
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I adore this, and the book you chose for it too. The poem is beautiful and glides gracefully through the words. The only thing I might point out is that I missed the 'a' at first - it gets lost in the black lines and disappears a bit. Still, a very beautiful and moving piece
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Yeah, you have a good point about that. If I still had the original I might go around the outline a bit more strongly (especially on the right), but I think a better remedy would have been to make the circle a bit bigger, so more clear white space around the a. I'll bear it in mind for next time
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I agree that a bigger circle for more white space would be the best fix for the problem 
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Congratulations on the DD! I can't believe Neil Gaiman re-tweeted this! So incredibly awesome!
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I would adore a series of wallpapers like this.
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very philosphical
andy warhol said it
in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes
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This is actually a thing?! Black out poetry. It has a name. I am not alone!
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It's called "found poetry" on deviantART - there's a whole gallery for it.
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Very simple, but very very pretty. (and, for the record, I loved that book.)
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very simple, but very inspiring!! congrats on the dd <3
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I love how "again" happens to be italicized. It adds to your found poem.
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Yeah, it changes the emphasis a little, doesn't it?
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you're welcome! i had no idea such poetry even existed 
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I've done this before but goodness knows where I put mine.. it's beautiful, am envious I didnt think of it LOL
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I've not got anything great to say (besides, I've personally not worked out how to analyse/evaluate Found poetry..) but I really like the simplicity of 'bring your candle to glitter again' - it's hopeful and cool and implicit. Good work on both composition and style (i.e. finding the words, and designing the blackout)
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Thank you very much! 
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Itti, you've done it again! You are marvelous. I love this one...
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I love it! Plus the book is Neil Garman's Stardust. I love that book!
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