Urban Sketch with a bit of reportage poetry

My Poetic Version of Sketch Reportage

I don’t just want to add simple text to my sketches – like location, or some other fact to present a dry description of the scene I’ve sketched. I want to convey the scene before me in a quirky or lighthearted way that provides some cultural or social commentary.

I’ve always loved writing quirky poems, so over the past couple of years I’ve started to add a little more text to my urban sketches primarily in the form of a four line stanza in aabb or abab format.

Here’s a collection of my poetic reportage sketches.

Not all my reportage sketches have poetry – some just have text.

I miss writing poetry, I would rather sketch and work on my sketching skills, than sit down to write another poetry collection, but adding a short poem to my urban sketches is the ideal way to combine two of my interests – words and pictures.

What is Reportage?