So what has happened to my Blog Elul poetry, you ask? I’ve been writing, but the poems have been either too drafty (rough, unfinished) or too personal to post. That’s a good thing, though, because it means I have material to work with later, when I don’t have a daily prompt to inspire me.
I spent a couple hours with a friend at the library today, and I can never resist the urge to make poetry out of book titles. So here’s something I cobbled together using words that jumped out at me from the stacks.
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to whisper her name all day and a night
unbroken against the tide
white hot light of the world long gone
a life of joy in a heartbeat
burning once upon a river
too late to say goodbye
guilt by association
hidden places never far from home
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Jennifer, what a great idea! It must have been fun. I like it!
It was. It is. Sometimes I make arbitrary rules to increase the challenge (don’t change any word forms, don’t use more than one title per line, don’t break a line in the middle of a title, every line must break in the middle of a title, or some such) and sometimes I just diddle around. It’s very relaxing. 🙂
It seems to me that writing with constraints can be more rewarding than sitting there with a blank piece of paper and a mind that is off who-knows-where. I like this!
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I love the idea of using book titles. Sounds like fun. 🙂
It’s gotten to be quite a habit. I was in a classroom at the Carnegie Center last week and found myself jotting down what titles I could read from the shelves across the room. It’s a poetry class, so I’m saving the list for the next time we do free-writing. 🙂