Regular blog readers and Instagram followers know how much I enjoy creating blackout poems. I use old free books to make them, but occasionally use other means as well. I enjoy seeing what alternative sentences emerge from the words on a given page. Sometimes they seem profound, at other times they’re rather ordinary.
And sometimes, especially when I’m in the right mood, I’ll end up with something a little more off the rails. And to be honest, these end up being some of my favorites because they can be so silly or absurd.
One of the most recent blackout poems I did turned out like this, and I felt inspired to go back through older journals to find others.
Here is a compilation of some of my most recent offbeat blackout creations.
Jeffrey A. Nelson 