Take a title of one of your favorite books and write a poem using that title as your title. Your poem can interact directly with the book or not at all. It is just the jumping off point.
OR
Look at your bookshelf or the main page of goodreads and pick a title of a book you have never read and know very little about. Turn that title into the title of your poem. Where you go from there is up to you.
Ooh, I’ve done this with song titles, but never book titles, before! 🥰💖 How exciting!
Wow – there is some serious synergy here! My poem, I am the cheese (for the ‘I am’ prompt)was partly inspired by my favourite YA title of the same name, by Robert Cormier!
Battlefield of mind
Volumes can I write over this
That pace through my mind
Every time I try to cross.
Shackled am I, of my own thought
That refuse to listen to me
Even though I am leading perfect.
Everything is possible
To victor here
Except for your prejudice.
Difficult is it to change
But I believe in right
So crush it underneath, to shine.
I used prompt #12, choosing to use The Mortgaged Heart, a posthumous collection of writing by Carson McCullers.
https://thepoetrymarathon.com/blog/kevinjoconner/the-mortgaged-heart/
Lightning boy
He’s a little magik boy
known to fiction and real world joy
millions love his special gift
many enrobe themselves and lift
their wands in unison, a rift
and instantly the world’s adrift
Uttering lyrical rhythmic words
swish and flick may sound absurd
but we adore the learned mimes
and pretending in medieval times
Bravery and brains alike
Potter and friends they take a hike
but at their heels shall always be
whose name must not be uttered, he
That wizard casts a glowering cloud
‘cross every non-death eater around
man and woman, boy and girl
shudder from his gloomy swirl
But we, at Disney can pretend
to vanquish Riddle in the end
with scar across our muggle pates
we raise our wands
and dream our fates.
– 6/22/19, Sandra Johnson