05-19-2017, 06:11 AM
Anything you want them to be, there's no accepted definition and no "International Rules Committee".
Almost all ready-made poems have been subject to editing and a limited amount is commonly accepted.
Certain publications and "contests" may have their own rules, and you should take that in mind when submitting.
I prefer the term "found ready-made" or just "ready-made" (it has a nice historical ring to it).
But in all this, you have to keep in mind that it's hard to simulate truly ready-made content and a bogus
sounding poem is usually not very effective. (And the stranger-than-fiction cliché is absolutely true.)
Just the act of selection is editing (and considering Google, what you have to select from guarantees
you can pretty much say anything you can think up).
What I like to do is use about 95% ready-made content and insert 5% of my own.
This follows the rule about good lies: "Good lies wrap themselves in truth."
(It's also a useful tool to label an original poem you've written "ready-made" to increase its narrative impact.)
But mainly, just like in all writing, there's not much point in doing it if it's not fun. You're the only one who
really knows how your poem was constructed, if you feel bad about altering the content, it stops being fun.
Almost all ready-made poems have been subject to editing and a limited amount is commonly accepted.
Certain publications and "contests" may have their own rules, and you should take that in mind when submitting.
I prefer the term "found ready-made" or just "ready-made" (it has a nice historical ring to it).
But in all this, you have to keep in mind that it's hard to simulate truly ready-made content and a bogus
sounding poem is usually not very effective. (And the stranger-than-fiction cliché is absolutely true.)
Just the act of selection is editing (and considering Google, what you have to select from guarantees
you can pretty much say anything you can think up).
What I like to do is use about 95% ready-made content and insert 5% of my own.
This follows the rule about good lies: "Good lies wrap themselves in truth."
(It's also a useful tool to label an original poem you've written "ready-made" to increase its narrative impact.)
But mainly, just like in all writing, there's not much point in doing it if it's not fun. You're the only one who
really knows how your poem was constructed, if you feel bad about altering the content, it stops being fun.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions