Do you have any concrete poems...

[ajc]

that I may borrow? I am teaching concrete poetry on Tuesday and any samples that I can use would be appreciated. If you have posted it in critique that I can borrow, please refer me to the thread.

Thanks so much.

[Feiss]

Ode to Concrete

You are simply formed
of cement and water
yet you hold my feet aloft.

I feel like a modern day jesus
walking upon miracles
from the bakery
to the pharmacy.

Dams and nuclear plants
footwear for snitches
just a few
of your manifold uses.

I draw a heart
in your calloused skin
with a paper clip

I write to whom but you:

Oh marvelous concrete
I want to be buried
in your overcast reality
so that I may never again move.

[Norman D Gutter]

Juan, the Concrete Man (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51331).

Permission to use granted.

Although, do you mean concrete as the opposite of abstract, or concrete the building material?

DAT

[Priene]

Surely, ajc means concrete as in shape poems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry). Googling "concrete poetry" brings up some fine examples.

[poetinahat]

I think Casey's done one or two recently, and there's the e.e. cummings number about the grasshopper (http://www22.poemhunter.com/poem/r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r-2/).

[ajc]

Yeah, I mean shape poems. Polenth yours is fabulous! Thank you so much for allowing me to use it. I know Casey has written some (the hefty dude comes to mind), but I'll wait for his permission. Fei and Norman, those were a fun read!

PIAH: Thanks for the grasshopper referral. Love it.