The Pyrenees---Southern France

The Pyrenees---Southern France

Thursday, December 10, 2015

A Poem... On Your Bookshelf

      My teaching partner got me on the trail of these: book spine poems. How much fun. Imagine--having the lines of a poem already written. All you have to do is pull some books off your bookshelf.

      Granted, the added punctuation is mine, along with the "and" but the rest wrote itself. (And that is so rare--when your lines just come flying at you with little or no effort.)






The Things They Carried:
Prayers for Sale,
A Thousand Splendid Suns,
The Yellow Birds
and
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

        Now your mission (if you choose to accept it AND if you're old enough to remember the opening bit of every "Mission: Impossible" show) Create a book spine poem. Have fun with it. After all, this poem will be almost effortless...

12 comments:

  1. Too cool. I can't do it right now, but I'll be back!

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    1. Lisa--Be sure to read Pat's. Hers puts mine to shame.

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  2. I've considered this before and never gotten to it. I am not sure I would be any good at it. But you sure did a whale of a job above!!!

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    1. Claudia--I am sure you would come up with a great one. Don't you have an overabundance of books? ;) Put them to good use.

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  3. What a cool idea! Here's mine:

    A Spool of Blue Thread
    At the Water's Edge
    Gone With the Wind
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Let's Pretend This Never Happened

    Oh my!

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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    1. Pat--I think I will delete mine, cut and paste your poem into my post, and then delete your comment... so I can pretend I wrote your poem.

      Great poem!

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  4. I Always Meant to Tell You
    A Candle Within Her Soul
    While the Daffodils Danced
    We are Water
    Stay

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    1. Linda--I am sure you have enough books to write several book spine poems...

      Thanks for sharing your poem. (I love the "While the Daffodils Danced" line.)

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  5. Love book spine poems! I think they're all good, Sioux. I might have one somewhere...
    http://c-c-hall.com/2010/04/09/finding-something-friday-a-book-spine-poem-on-what-else-writing/

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    1. Cathy--What song does Ann Reinking (spelling?) sing and dance to in the movie "All That Jazz"--is it "Everything Old is New Again"?

      I guess I'm just a few years behind the times?

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  6. The bookshelf beckons, but alas, I must ignore its pleas. I planned on accepting the mission, but time has marched on without me once again.

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    1. You don't have the time, Val? Perhaps it's not a matter of a lack of time. Maybe instead it is that Hick took all the books off your bookshelf and made a shed... using stacks of books as the walls...

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