What’s in Your Book Spines?

lillian

i
The Happiness Project
Swing Swagger Drape
A Hundred Daffodils

ii
You’re Wearing That?
The Audacity of Hope

iii
Plain and Simple:
If I Had My Life To Live Over
I Would Pick More Daisies
Off Camera

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NaPoWriMo Day 10: My suggested prompt was used for everyone today! Stack ’em up and write  Book Spine Poetry, hopefully from books on your book shelves.
My three poems include titles from: Gretchen Rubins’s The Happiness Project, Jane Slicer-Smith’s knitting pattern book Swing Swagger Drape, Jane Kenyon’s White Daffodils; You’re Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen and Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope; and the third one includes Sue Bender’s Plain and Simple, If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies edited by Sandra Haldeman Martz, and Ted Koppel’s Off Camera.  Happy Sunday!

11 thoughts on “What’s in Your Book Spines?”

  2. Liz Boquet's avatar Liz Boquet April 10, 2016 / 2:08 pm

    Thanks for the fun and inspiring prompt. I’ve had a blast playing with my books today.

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    • lillian's avatar lillian April 10, 2016 / 4:04 pm

      Always happy to please! 🙂 Glad you had fun with it! Always think making poetry should be wordsmithing with joy and chuckles rather than a difficult task. Makes you reevaluate what’s on those shelves too, right? First time I did it, I also did a bit of spring cleaning 🙂

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  3. Dreamer of Dreams's avatar Dreamer of Dreams April 10, 2016 / 4:16 pm

    How wonderful to read this! Nice to know some of the titles on your book-shelves! Well-woven lines!

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  4. Sharon's avatar Sharon April 14, 2016 / 2:27 am

    I really like the 2nd and 3rd poem! I never thought of book spines as poetic and then there it is! This prompt was a challenge for me, but it was interesting. It’s always fun to look at the world differently to see what you’ll see.

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    • lillian's avatar lillian April 14, 2016 / 7:21 am

      oooh I so agree! I think that’s one thing that’s happened to me since I started writing poetry in Feb 2015 and this blog that March. I suddenly look at things a bit differently — or my mind leaps from the view to what it means — or I make up words like bubblcious! 🙂 That prompt also gave us a peek into people’ lives as we got to see what’s on their bookshelves 🙂 Time to get my morning cup —

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  5. Manja Maksimovič's avatar Manja Mexi Movie April 15, 2016 / 2:17 pm

    This is such a cool concept that I will do one right here from my last acquisitions that are waiting together on the shelf for me to take them:

    The omnivore’s dilemma:
    A natural history of the senses.

    I am an emotional creature!
    La bella lingua?
    Just kids?

    In defence of food –
    The elegance of the hedgehog.

    /abused writers: Michael Pollan 2x, Dianne Hales, Patti Smith, Eve Ensler, Diane Ackerman, Muriel Barbery. Connect the dots. I don’t usually read predominantly women. I guess it comes with years./

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    • lillian's avatar lillian April 15, 2016 / 2:33 pm

      Ah — so glad you liked the idea of book spine poetry! 🙂

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