Living the Desert Life, The First Month © 2012 Bo Mackison
Here is the challenge: use book titles to create small haiku-like poems. A challenge I couldn’t resist.
And so I began. Considering I had limited resources while staying in Arizona, I decided to do a trilogy of book spine poetry using the theme of “living the desert”. That way I could use several titles more than once.
Living the Desert Life, The First Month
You are here.
Chasing the light.
The desert year.
Living the Desert Life, The Second Month © 2012 Bo Mackison
Living the Desert Life, The Second Month
While I was gone
chasing the light –
the desert year.
Foolsgold.
Living the Desert Life, The Third Month © 2012 Bo Mackison
Living the Desert Life, The Third Month
Savor
The desert year,
Chasing the light.
——————-
Bo Mackison is a photographer and owner of Seeded Earth Studio LLC, is living and photographing in southern Arizona for a hundred days. Only three more days left.
About Bo Mackison
Clever. I especially like the last one.
Thanks. I like the last one, too. Savoring the desert! Yes!
Interesting idea. I wonder if the concept works with ski lodge names? 🙂
Hey, give it a try. Let me know if you find any good poetry…
Great idea – lovely verses!
Thanks. Lots of fun, too!
Very nice!
My Found Poetry
Thank you. Loved your found poetry about the elephants too.
There are whole stories in your poems. An open Universe.
Yes, I managed to write about my 3 month stay in Arizona in a few book titles…maybe I didn;t need to write all these blog posts? 🙂
These are beautiful, Bo. I love this idea. I might have to give it a try.
Do give it a try, Robin! With your in house library, I bet you’ll have some great finds. I can hardly wait to get home and check out all the books on my shelves.