. . . powerful winter weather,
bone-chilling wind.
Don coats, hats and gloves.
Outdoors . . . sleet, freezing rain.
Polar vortex beginning, remaining.
Ensure anyone in need shelter.
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Written for Tuesday Poetics at dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe.
Today, Punam has us thinking about newspapers. “You can write a newspaper blackout poem. You can use the headline from your local newspaper as a springboard and write a poem on it, or you can simply write why you love or hate reading the newspaper. Your poem should have some link with the newspaper.”
I’ve done a “blackout poem” from an article about the weather in the San Diego Union Tribune, Sunday January 19th edition. See photo below …circled words are the ones I’ve used to create the poem….using them in the order in which they appeared in the article.
lillian the home poet 
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Very well done, Lillian. Quite creative! It is cold and snowy here in NC for the first time in three years!!
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Nice! I’ve never done a blackout poem but you’ve just given a master class.
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I fear you have all the cold… still global warming since here it is no winter at all.
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I love this, Lill! A perfect ‘forecast’.
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Wonderfully done, Lill. So this is how a blackout poem is done!
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