Shaped Salmon

Court Smith

The lunchbox, have no feaer

-Anonymous

I want candy

Celine E. Crum

Breezes

Court Smith

Silence

Author: Eugen Gomringer, "Silencio" ("Silence"), 1954.

Source: Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology

1967, by Stephen Bann. London Magazine 1967

Spotted Owl

Court Smith

Speech silver

Author: Haroldo de Campos, "Untitled Poem", 1962.

Winds

Author: Eugen Gomringer, "Wind", 1953.

Source: Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology

1967, by Stephen Bann. London Magazine 1967

Urban High Rises

Court Smith

O the homestead

O the homestead wherein can hide the most obvious

ruach breath mouth opening hope being’s simple exhalation

crossed upon the partial knowing of the word words our shared technology

“Its voice has to be silent as soon as one listens for its message.”

-Anonymous

Scales, A Judgement

-Court Smith

l’chaim drink it up

l’chaim drink it up this is our enduring health plan the love

of torah of wine & yearly gathering of loved ones
like the afikoman ritual wisdom hidden be
neath a pillow for the youngest to find the
words we say are the wine we drink
shaped to the lips & fingers
of this living in
stant
that
stems
from
re
membering the exodus of the loved one no longer
at the table & our own original exodus from the
governing emptiness to which we return
-Anonymous

Dove's Song

-Court Smith

Concrete Poem

A concrete poem is a poem that forms a picture of the topic or follows the contours of a shape that is suggested by the topic. These can be used effectively with reports in science or social studies. For example, my students have used them in catastrophe reports. Their poems were about a tornado, a hurricane, a flood, and an earthquake. - Shannon Lea K.