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Silver sigh
and flames of dust:
you forget me.

I hesitate, pressed,
drumming answers of knives
into the night.

"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 .)

I hadn't thought before of letting the text underneath show through so I decided to give it a go that way this time.

In many ways, I feel that this is something I could not have come up with myself. I don't tend to use such "poetic" language - I feel awkward and a bit pretentious when doing so. Not that I think other people are pretentious when I do that; more that I worry about being seen that way myself. But this poem was just there, hidden, inside the text of Stardust. Which is a great book, by the way

Description
Silver sigh
and flames of dust:
you forget me.

I hesitate, pressed,
drumming answers of knives
into the night.

"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 .)

I hadn't thought before of letting the text underneath show through so I decided to give it a go that way this time.

In many ways, I feel that this is something I could not have come up with myself. I don't tend to use such "poetic" language - I feel awkward and a bit pretentious when doing so. Not that I think other people are pretentious when I do that; more that I worry about being seen that way myself. But this poem was just there, hidden, inside the text of Stardust. Which is a great book, by the way