The poetry challenge today on the dVerse site is to write a “found” poem using the words on book spines.
Bjorn asks us to:
Go through your collection on books, and note the titles.
Sort them so the titles form a poem.
Take a photo of the books.
Write down the poem.
And so, my found poem — a haiku of sorts — with its found title:
Finding Your Way
wherever you go
roads of destiny — options —
some answered questions
Brief but nice, rocking the prompt gently. You ain’t afraid of no spine poetry.
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Nope. I’m not spineless.
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I like this a lot! Well done~
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Thank you!
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This one turned so well. I love Melody Beattie. She helped me out of a big jam in the past.
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I’ve had that book forever, it seems. I remember it being very helpful at the time I read it.
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Her book, “Codependent No More” is the one that really helped me.
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A haiku is like the seed of poetry, it says everything succinctly, and you can choose to let it germinate into a full poem or leave it as a seed and ingest its essence. Your book spine haiku is definitely not spineless.
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Thank you, Kim. I appreciate your comment.
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My philosophical nature is very pleased by this arrangement. Well done.
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Thank you. I’m glad you liked it.
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Love it. That worked really well.
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Thank you.
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A haiku! Perfect. I love those old spines, treasured books.
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I got a ten volume set of O. Henry books from my grandfather. They are, indeed, treasured. 🙂
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I really love how much you managed to capture with a found haiku
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Thank you, Bjorn, and thanks for the prompt!
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Nice little message compacted into your poem!
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Thank you, Mish.
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