Experimental Poem

In my Poetry Writing Workshop this semester, my teacher introduced us to something that is growing in popularity: digital poetry, which encompasses a lot of different things.  People are experimenting with combining sound and words, video and words, pictures and words.  These "poems" are not meant to be read without the accompanying visual elements.  It is growing in popularity so much that there are now some online literary magazines that publish these hybrid pieces.

For the class, we each had to create our own digital (or experimental) poem, and it was a lot of fun to see what people came up with.  Some inserted their poems into photos or paintings they had done, some created videos with music and voice, one created a Google map that pinpointed places where aspects of the poem took place.

Here is my experimental/digital poem.  Enjoy!  And I would LOVE to hear what you think of it, so leave comments.