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A holiday poegle

admin — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:27:32 +0000

Season of Wants, by video poegler Ron Diorio.

Search phrase “a season of wants”

Another video poegle

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:31:45 +0000

Some bad news

Some bad news
tempted by unsolicited emails
filled with eloquent musings
people with a passion
Teens
Glamourous
and Natural

A guidebook
reveals the workings
living as a secret
living as a mystery
tricks
tips
deception,
evasion,
lying,
Misappropriation
cover-stories,
and misdirection

A very expensive Fairy tale
Romantic lingerie,
nylon stockings,
garter belts and girdles

Bottom Line
have been playing
And thanks to Readers like me
shabby exposed
altered lifestyle
a vibrant environment of youth
rebellion
and desire.

Complexities?

Teens
Glamourous
Natural

It Ends

The assessment?
treatment of psychiatric disorders

Send this to everyone you love
or care about
or even think is really nice
including the person that sent it toyou.
If you send this to 10 people in the next 43 minutes
then tomorrow will be the best day ever.

-Ron in Washington Heights (search phrase “secret”, results from 100 pages with some text appropriated from a spam email)

The Friday Poegle Contest: “My Mother”

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:13:33 +0000

Dear Poeglers,

We received a number of fine poegles from poeglers around the country this week. The winner of the prized plastic segmented jump rope is writer and artist Ron Diorio, who not only scoured more than 300 pages of search results to create his creepy, sparse poegle, Night Light, but also created the first-ever video poegle, combining his poegle with his visual art in a voice over. You can view this extraordinary video contribution here.

We also received a fantastic submission from Amy Keresztes, Four Nights of a Dreamer. A literature class in Virginia sent in a batch of fine poegles on the subject “Everything Happens for a Reason”. The entire class did poegles based on that as a search phrase. All of these submissions are now posted in our archives . In your humble Editor’s opinion, among the best was Six Little Marks on the Ground, Six Lanterns Hanging on Six Ropes by Emily. All of this week’s fine submissions are below.

It has been a busy week in the world of poegling. We launched our first philanthropic effort to bring poetry to the nation’s youth through DonorsChoose.org. We also launched a Poegles Facebook page- become a fan here.

This week’s theme for the Friday Poegle Contest is “My Mother”. We invite poegles crafted with any phrase related to the subject- such as “while in the womb” or “my mother used to tell me”.

As always, happy poegling!

Best regards,

The Editors

Night light: a video poegle

admin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:24:35 +0000

Ron Diorio composed this first-ever poegle by searching the phrase “night light” and mashing together the results. He looked through 310 pages of results to arrive at the text accompanying this video sequence, which features art from his collection of works, currently on display at the Peter Hay Halpert fine art gallery in New York.

You can read Ron’s blog here. You can see the video poegle here. And below, here is the text of the poegle:

Night Light

Today
the night walk
I come to see
no outlet
but
the same night lights

on the streets
low-income party people
exploited women
well-wishers
and
sympathizers

everyday
a Deadman Crescent Moon

Some domestic
others
international
nowadays
indoor
areas that become dark
God
Guts
mostly progressive
decorative
Yes
All-American, not so much

-Ron Diorio in New York