After staring at my bookcases and all of the library books I can’t yet return, I have discovered my new favorite quarantine pastime: creating poems out of book titles!

I gave myself a couple of rules:

1. They can only be books I currently have in my house.
2. I cannot alter the book titles, except to add articles (a/an/the)
3. I can add punctuation.

Two of the poems ending up starting with the same line, and it was amusing to see the drastically different turns they took.

Here’s the first one:

now I rise:

burn bright,

spark

the fire,

a tangle of gold

where the rock splits the sky—

legendary.

You can compare this to the one I wrote after, which has quite a different tone!

now I rise—

then again, maybe I won’t.

nothing ever happens here,

the lair of dreams.

hush, hush, dreamer…

a long, long sleep…

wait until tomorrow.

I think I’ll have to try more of these! Yes, each line is a different book title (except hush, hush, dreamer, which is two book titles put together).

Do you have any books at home that would make interesting book title poetry?