Dada Poem

You may have noticed that I've got a penchant for surrealism and psychedelia. I find bending the mind in order to think outside of reality, a fascinating idea and experience. It's an affinity that I attribute to countless hours spent with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Salvador Dali. With that in mind, today I'm going to attempt to put together a Dada Poem.

A Dada Poem is a sort of anti-poem, popularized during the cultural movement known as Dadaism. The Dadaists rejected current art standards of the time, and were considered anti-establishment. According to Wikipedia, Dadaism began in Zurich, Switzerland during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement was heavily influenced by anti-war politics, and is said to have laid the ground work for many styles to come including, but not limited to: surrealism, pop art, and punk rock.

Dada poetry was born due to the efforts of Tristan Tzara, a French poet, essayist, and a founder of Dada. He devised a method of writing using the following rules:

1. Take a newspaper
2. Take a pair of scissors
3. Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem
4. Cut out the article
5. Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag
6. Shake it gently
7. Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag
8. Copy conscientiously
9. The poem will be like you
10. And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.

And now my poem...

Dear God...I am broken

Perspective words be forgive, these heart bigger.
Your two important troubles have the hatred, change forgiveness.
Here you love life, what lifetime can do?
How forgiveness call yourself most sounds Buddha.
Most in simple trust whole faith, whatever on and than everyday.
While it can, your spirit difficult lesson can you?
This something forgiveness, first learn yet you thing.
Could love do you get? Can that your and than love God.
In it the be earth, you the plan.
How on to put bigger trust must part it, but so is that.
It is and lesson your May has in you if your a in a it.