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Shameful Regret here is what's known as a "found poem". A found poem is a poem that's comprised of words taken from an article—the only words allowed that aren't in the article are little connector words that make things smoother and fit. I have exactly four words in this poem that I could not find in the article—and I didn't have to use the same word in the article twice (if a word in the poem is used more than once, more than one of that word can be found in the article). I used the "Recipe For Disaster" by Constantine Bloodworth Nolan, an article from one of the issues of my school's monthly magizine, The Wind-Up.
This one was a poem that stemmed from a significant person promt. This one is in memory of Nagney, my fraternal grandmother, someone who is still very near and dear to my heart.
Every poem I wrote, up until my junior year of high school, had its first draft in what I called a "freedom notebook." A freedom notebook is a notebook that I designate to inspired ideas. Recently before this poem was written, I filled up my first of two freedom notebooks. the one which I had been using since the beinning of eight grade. This poem came from a important object prompt.
Ever heard of a pop-icon poem? If not, now you have. A pop-icon poem is where you take a famous story and flip it around, twisting it and warping it to your own design. You can change the POV or wreak havoc on the ending. This one takes the story of Sleeping Beauty and changes the way it ends—oh, and it's from the POV of Prince Phillip.
This is one of my absolute favorite poems of all the ones I wrote in my freshman year. It was the free prompt poem—I choose an imagery poem. I also made a podcast on it—listen to it at the right, if you want. (Five hours on Adacity created that podcast—it was so much fun and completely worth it!)
