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Asemic poetry?

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Written by Catherin J Pascal Dunk

I recently saw a post by Salie Davis/Sarah B Royal of asemic (meaning-free) poetry, and it made me wonder if this squiggle I did last year would count as a poem.

What do you think?

squiggles in blue and pink, with loops, lines and waves in a pattern
Asemic poetry (?) by Catherin J Pascal Dunk 2025

My current poeting mentor, Kit Kelen, does a lot of artwork along these lines…maybe that’s asemic poetry too?

Care to make your own?

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    2. Interesting. ‘not a thing’, yet there is someone claiming it is, even describing it. Does that make it ‘a thing’?

      It reminds me of some poem I saw that was purely typed symbols or even parts of Kerouac’s writing that devolves into symbols rather than words.

      At that website, it says an asemic poem could be in sound. Wouldn’t all poems in a language that we don’t understand still be called poetry?

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    3. What is a word, other than letters in specific order, or hieroglyph, or hierarchic drawing

      with meaning for those who are open to understand the incomprehensible, including

      those with mental drill or plated grey matter… `j>y;[g}

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