Poetry Challenge #63-Five Books High

Do you have a pile of books? I always have a stack that I want to read. Sometimes it grows so large I’m afraid it will fall on me and hurt!

Here’s a snap of the top 5 Picture Books on my to read/reread stack:

One solution to the overflowing book issue is to use them to solve decor issues (preferably after you’ve read them):

Or use all those books to solve housing issues…

Since, as the song goes “It never rains in Southern California…

In San Diego and other places, tiny houses are a viable solution for the housing shortage—

Here are the top 5 books in Cindy’s to read stack. (Notice a difference?):

Poetry Challenge #63

Five Books High

For this prompt, take a look at a stack of five books or five books on a shelf—yours, mine, Cindy’s, someone else’s….

Take the first word (not A or THE) and write it down. Use these words in a poem.

Here is one poem resulting from our practice prompt. The selected words from books titles in that stack were: cool    miracle    spell    tamed    bird

And here’s the untitled poem:

Watching the sun go down

was a cool miracle,

a study in pink and orange and red,

a mystical spell

that tamed the world.

And like the evening bird,

we sang one last word.

Your turn!

Set the timer for 7 minutes.

Start writing!

Don’t think about it too much; just do it. I’ll be waiting on my book couch…

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge at least 3200 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem. Scroll down and click on the comments!

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