CRYPTOPOEMS

Encoded within unique and structurally challenging forms lie mwpm's "cryptopoems," puzzle-like arrangements of letters concealing lines of poetic meaning that unfold to careful readers. These poems function like a riddle or a joke, comical little brain-teasers which require you to read in unfamiliar ways, to use memory and pattern recognition in deciphering the message, but which reward those who get it. Surveying a variety of mwpm's signature forms, each built on a simple set of constraints, CRYPTOPOEMS can by read online using the links below, and a limited edition of hand-bound chapbooks are available from The Blasted Tree Store.

i can't sleep
cats hate the rain
who do you want?
what/where (fill in the blanks)
two-bit pick-up line
excerpts from thomas weatherly's short history of the saxaphone
move on

forgotten works
slam poetry
16/116
16/?
ONENOTETODENOTEATONEMENT
THOUGHTSREPLACEDBYECHOES
IADOREYOU

CRYPTOPOEMS is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store.

Featured by The Blasted Tree: April 25, 2018

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CRYPTOPOEMS by mwpm is a Blasted Tree collection of poetry.

ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-28-8

Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer

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