A Found Poem

Inspired by one of Tricia’s Monday Poetry Stretches at The Miss Rumphius Effect, I wrote a cento about writing and posted it last Monday. Tricia also included a link to an explanation of a “found” poem in her post about the cento. I decided, with the help of Kelly Herold’s extensive blogroll at Big A, little a, to write a found poem about reading using the names of blogs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t incorporate the names of some of my favorite blogs into my poem. To be sure, the poem isn’t terribly poetic—but it is what it is! And here it is:


Untitled Found Blog Poem about Reading
by Elaine Magliaro

Develop A Fondness for Reading
Become a person who Lives to Read
Get a book, book, book
From Charlotte’s Library
Find A Chair, A Fireplace A Tea Cozy
Not far From the Windowsill
Settle down and drift away by Sun and Candlelight
Through the Magic of Books
Slip Into the Wardrobe
With Miss Erin
It’s Worth the Trip
Go Barefoot!
In a World of Words
Quiet Words, Words, Words
Rustling in The Shady Glade
Wild Words, Words, Words
Shaken & Stirred
Delicious Words, Words, Words
Sweet as Oowey, Goowey Marshamallows
Savory as Chicken Spaghetti
Relish a Readable Feast
Inhale and bite into a juicy Bookburger
On Mitali’s Fire Escape
Step onto the Reading Carousel
For some grand Adventures in Daily Living
Be someone who Lives to Read
So Many Books
Just One More Book
Haven’t you heard? It’s All About the Book!!!


Click here to read Poetic Form: Found Poem at Poets.org.