A Poem, Piled

OK, so I came across this competition at literary agent Janet Reid's site. She got the idea from novelist Tahereh Mafi.

Create a poem using the titles of books from your shelves. Take a picture of the books in a pile to illustrate your poem.

Here's mine.

WHAT I LOVED
when I was WITH BILLIE
after SHE CAME TO STAY
were THE HOURS
of SILENCE

like FALLING THROUGH CLOUDS

she got UNDER THE SKIN
of A SINGLE MAN
that EARLY SPRING

it became a YEAR OF WONDERS
on THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

but THEN WE CAME TO THE END
THE END OF EVERYTHING

following A SPOT OF BOTHER
with VICTORIA
in the KITCHEN

Comments

[Jen]

Excellent.

I had a go at this myself. http://jen-campbell.blogspot.com/2011/09/poem-of-books.html

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[Tom Vowler]

And here's my attempt: http://oldenoughnovel.blogspot.com/

[PK Munroe]

that's very good!

[indiana]

i'm very late to the party but off to stack books myself now

[Rena]

Love it!

Mine's here: renarossner.wordpress.com

I think these would make a great book!

[Julia Bird]

Excellent stuff, thank you! We have borrowed it at the Poetry School as a writing prompt for our Facebook writing class ... http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Poetry-School/342276350081

[Nana Fredua-Agyeman]

oh! This is fantastic. This is awesome. What a creative way to write a poem. I enjoyed reading this. Will work on the books on the shelf.