Obiter Dicta held a “found poetry” event on February 7, 2024, where attendees created blackout poetry. This is a form of poetry where words are selected from existing text (in this case, old published Obiter articles) and the rest are blacked out to create a new poem.
Here are some of the fun creations from the event:
Author: Grace Lawrence
Men and women who live in a society as just another
Many of the people have feelings of disgust, horror.
Opinions diverge, but if you believe,
Okay, let’s talk.
Hot on the trail,
IS A BAD, BAD THING, MUSTN’T TOUCH.
Unacceptable violence
No, no, no
Honest portrayals of their humanity
STOPS miraculously
THEY are free to act upon.
Consistency is a much lauded virtue
Immutable principle is free speech, is art.
Either increased or decreased advocacy of legal niceties suffer because it’s not a love story.
Author: Alexia Lima
We all know the one,
just another horror.
We find possible answers.
Instincts revive struggle.
Say more, let’s talk and know we don’t like it.
What inquiries should also subject to you saying,
No, no, no.
Communication is humanity identified, endowed speech, art.
Are you standing up?
Pornographers make a buck. Power to you.
Ask yourself, whether we like their concern living in the never-never land?
Author: Unknown
A satirical poem about justice.
Justice? This is totally unacceptable.
They will languish
in the near future.
We are assured a transition can sometimes serve due process.
This, however, is no excuse.
It is not burdened.
Doing is to pass on the merits
–Or so desperate to improve it.
It is unconscionable.
It is unbelievable indignity and inconvenience of irreversibility.
It is unbelievable.
Hear two sides of one story.
One cannot envy the difficulty of navigating power.
Her power is not enough.
Someone needs to stand up and take responsibility for this travesty.
Someone needs to look at where we have gone wrong.
We have a dingy, dimly lit system.
Somewhere, somehow, we’ve forgotten about the basics. Perhaps now would be a good time to return.
Author: Alice Hao
Farewell, I’m somewhere else.
I’m not answering phones.
My life, my fondness, my life,
my FAULT!
I was a dreamer thing .
Now I called only you.
Author: Patricia Borja
Delayed?
As we pass who refers the “good” ones
They the true that few
Pass on.
It is unconscionable that they should have to suffer.
It is unbelievable that hell can take so long.
One cannot envy the difficulty of navigating the process.
Someone,
someone take whatever steps are necessary.
Perhaps somewhere along the line, we have forgotten.
Perhaps now would be a good time to return.
Author: Anita Gogia
Considerable interview process, relatively few jobs,
You are not done.
Much needed experience, financing education, is the driving force.
Several good leads, no position to resent,
The goal is clear:
Long term project, having everyone’s best interests,
A novelty of Osgoode.
Author: Manpreet Bharj
Pornography.
What does it diverge for free of speech?
Arguments about “morality”
Struggle for rights
Where have you been
WE’VE been fighting a long time.
Horrible. Objectify others. Atmosphere of violence, fear which women live in every day.
Solutions?
CENSORSHIP IS A BAD, BAD THING, MUSTN’T TOUCH.
But, where were you?
Violence, racial stereotypes, feed your children.
Did you really raise your voices in indignation, protesting?
You had no problem in saying freedom is not a licence, freedom is a responsibility.
I cannot reconcile libertarians stand on racism and violence with their stand on pornography.
Suddenly, when the group is women
Pornography is free speech, pornography is art.
Pornography is anything but the
Multi-billion dollar degradation of
Women that we all know it is.
Whose rights are you standing up for?
Women’s right to claim our rights, as blacks, native peoples, immigrants and countless others did and do, by trying to change our depiction in society.
But let’s face facts.
Advocacy will not determine the truth because the facts are that whether we like it or not, one form of censorship demands that we press the State for action.
Pornography needs necessarily blanket censorship against the use of children in porn, implied or actual degradation.
We live in a regulated society, all societies are bound by rules of one kind or another. Rules are imposed from somewhere above us.
The rules reflect agendas, not necessarily ours.
Isn’t it time we took some responsibility for our freedoms?
Author: Kailey Tam
Soft farewell,
A mellow mood.
I’m somewhere else.
But never sober enough to distance from here.
What’s good about justice?
People seem to be dangerous, unrepentant scum.
I may need help (I didn’t intend, just need initiative & self-discipline!)
The door is half of my life
I have to.
I imitate FAULT &
I learn about theater:
A wildman, a poet, a crus of demand
I nap to worship.
Author: Sanjam Panag
As we pass into the regular ebb and flow,
a startling fact remains:
Student sometime in the near future will languish until sometime in the near future.
This, that should shock us into action.
All that needs doing is to pass.
It is unconscionable. It is unbelievable.
What in hell?
Someone needs to stand up and take responsibility.
Someone needs to look at where we have gone wrong.
Author: Kailey Tam
The Sun was our Orientation.
The night before
I was tired and a bit scared, you know,
I reflected on earth, on life.
I am common, envious, isolation, cold, fatigued
On the beachside.
Then there were
Honest thought so I
Reflect on success.
I start today.
Relax.
Sometimes redundant
But then again, easy
Don’t know.
I have to admit
I was exhausted by the end of the night.
Relive our days and I dream.
Author: UNKNOWN
The changing colours of the trees are sure beautiful.
And the poignant sounds of autumn:
The soft whispers of cool wind, the rustling of dry leaves, the farewell songs of southbound birds.
Ah, autumn is here!
And summer is only 252 days away.
With the change of season comes a mellowing of my mood.
I’m only going to focus on positive things.
Perhaps the thing I like best about being here is the fact that I’m not somewhere else.
Must admit that some of the people seem to be dangerous.
Obviously, I’m a big fan.
