Five Poems Found in the Database of the UC Berkeley Library ~ poetry by Glenn Ingersoll
Fascinating “found” poetry at The Housewife today. Writer Glenn Ingersoll generated lists of titles from the UC Berkeley library and realized they could (nearly) be read as poetry. After a little tweaking … art!
Love is
???Love is a dog from hell
Love is a four letter word
???????Love is a many splendored thing
???Love is a pie
Love is a place
?????????Love is colder than death
???Love is the crooked thing
Love is the measure
???????Love is the silence
?????Love is the sum of it all
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We were free
We were soldiers once and young
???We were not summer soldiers
We were not like other people
???We were not all wrong
We were making history
???We were interrupted
We were in the ark
???We were and we shall be
We were free
???We were always free
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To you
To you, America
To you, I write
To you out there
To you . . . the essential cog in the wheel of Women’s Dormitory Association
To you, Thomas Hutchins
To you, treacherous and corrupt poet
To your health
To your health
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WHAT THE HELL 
Love is a rose but you better not pick it, it only grows when it’s on the vine…
That one’s already taken …
Hmm. Having worked as a cataloguer in libraries for 30+ years, I can relate to this. In fact, I had a similar (but different) idea. Might follow up on it someday.
I think there are a lot of opportunities out there for “found” poetry. Go for it!