Crossed Out

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Today we are doing concrete and shape poetry at dVerse with me hosting. where we try to have visuals and words working together. I played around with a poem in Excel to create my visual, with the them of the two branches we may see. I could probably expand this a lot, so this is more of a sketch for a “poem”.

May 15, 2025

13 responses to “Crossed Out”

  1. The tree of life/death; the apples of Eden vs. the fruit of the Fall? Going out on a limb into an inevitable abyss? I see all at play here, an enticing yet foreboding visual to ruminate on.

  2. A very interesting read, Bjorn! Your poem contains so much to digest, that it must be read through a few times to discover all that it contains.

  3. this was hard for me to read Björn. I think i only got the sense of the last column

    Happy you dropped by my blog

    much♡love

  4. An intriguing visual poem, Bjorn…I see where apple fell from tree and noticed interesting placement of word “cross”.

  5. How unique!! I see the branches clearly and love the direction your concrete poem took.

    [of course now i have whiplash ~ kidding]

  7. Reminds me of how much more efficient mind maps are, or are said to be on the mind than linear thinking and writing. Your verse accordingly is all the more powerful in looking sentiment and emotion together visually, with branches coming together or falling apart, say nothing of the roots. It does make me think more poetry should be written like this, if we had easy software to do it. There is definitely a triggering of emotions one does ot get if this was written in formalised lines.

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