Blackouts

Some blackout poetry for your Friday...

I did something a bit different for Friday Poetry. I needed a digital break this week and I’ve been kinda sick this week too so this seemed like a fun thing to try. The first time I saw black out poetry was Austin Kleon. I was like “that’s cool” but never tried it. So I finally did. It’s surprising harder than I thought it was but I think I did ok for the first round of tries. Will definitely try again.

Here is what I came up with (not in any order):

So what you think? Would you try it?

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