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I'd heard of Apollinaire, but I hadn't seen these before, kinda neat. Legolas Send a noteboard - 15/01/2011 09:41:51 PM
In the mirror one, it's also clever how the end connects to the beginning - "and not like the reflections" "in this mirror".

I like typographical poetry like that, though, I can see how some would argue that it's a cheap trick, but it really does work sometimes. One of the best poets of Flanders (where I'm from, in Belgium) did a fair few typographical poems, such as this one:



(It goes on a fair bit longer after that, see here for the whole thing.)
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