What the title says! On a whim, I decided to gather all the words from the titles of my highest rated books and see how I could rearrange them into a poem of sorts. Then I gathered up other groups of books, mostly from my end of the year posts, and did the same a few more times. So that was my way of keeping it random, not trying to choose “good” titles or coherent themes or anything.
I didn’t use every word from every group (I removed books from the list if I ended up using none from a title), but the one rule was that I could only use words that were present. So no adding “the” or “and,” etc. And I used leftover words in each group to make a title for that poem.
Anyway, they’re totally weird and pretentious and don’t make a lot of sense. To be clear, poetry in general is great! These poems are just pretentious because they sound deeper than they actually are. I had to get really metaphorical for some of these. Don’t feel bad if you have no idea what I’m talking about because I barely do. But it was a fun challenge!
If anyone else wants to give it a try, I’d love to see what you come up with!
Heartless Detox
The Books:
– Beckoning Blood by Daniel de Lorne
– Caged by Bey Deckard
– Chase the Dark by Annette Marie
– Detox in Letters by Cheryl Low
– Obscura Burning by Suzanne van Rooyen
– Real Vampires Take No Prisoners by Amy Fecteau
– The Heartless City by Andrea Berthot
– Withered + Sere by TJ Klune
The Poem:
(“Sere” is an adjective meaning “dry,” but I made the artistic choice to use it as a verb.)
Withered vampires,
Prisoners caged,
Burning beckoning…
No.
Chase.
Take blood.
Sere the city in the dark.
Tales
The Books:
– Merry & Sprite // Bone to Be Wilde by Dani Lakely
– Blooded by Nat Kennedy
– The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros
– Dream On by E.M. Jeanmougin & Jay Wright
– Oak King Holly King // Tales from Blackthorn Briar by Sebastian Nothwell
– The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
– A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Fox Meadows
– A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
The Poem:
The stubborn king,
Oak and endurance,
Briar-blooded on blackthorn bone.
A taste of the merry sprite,
The wilde prince—
Strange…
Beautiful…
A holly dream…
From iron king to gold.
Only in Dark Blues
The Books:
– The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen
– Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
– Mazarin Blues // Sable Dark by Al Hess
– Absolution by Lissa Kasey
– The Dichotomy of Angels by N.R. Walker
– Carry On // Wayward Son // Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
– A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
– Strangers in the Night // Friends in Low Places // Only the Good Die Young by E.M. Jeanmougin & Jay Wright
– The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
The Poem:
(This one was screaming for something religious with words like angels, absolution, light, and dark… but I wasn’t really sure what to do with that, so I did something completely different instead lol. Also mazarin is a shade of blue.)
The dichotomy of the young—
Good friends, wayward angels,
Marvellous noise, infinite light.
Strangers carry us places,
Absolution blows in the wind,
On a mazarin summer night.
Time Wife
The Books:
– Wolf Hall by Harper Fox
– The Usual Apocalypse by Christine Price
– Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle // Real Vampires Do It in the Dark by Amy Fecteau
– The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
– Fight the Tide by Keira Andrews
– Timekeeper // Chainbreaker by Tara Sim
– How to Howl at the Moon by Eli Easton
– The Henchmen of Zenda by KJ Charles
The Poem:
Tide.
Wolf.
Timekeeper.
Chainbreaker.
Traveler’s usual.
Dark apocalypse.
Vampires to the—
Henchmen of the—
Sparkle.
Howl.
Don’t fight the—
Moon.
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This is fun. Sere is suich a cool word, by the way. Love the first one. It’s very bleak, maybe, but that’s a good thing! 🙂 It has a post apoc plus vampires feel, for me anyway. And then the second one has fae all over it!
Thanks! Yeah those parched vampires are free and about to wreak havoc. I was definitely thinking fae with that one!
“Absolution blows in the wind,
On a mazarin summer night.”
This sounds great! Also, I’ve learned something from your poems (I mean, two new words LOL).
Actually I do like those two lines, I love that they also stood out to you lol. I knew mazarin from the book, but I either forgot or never knew what sere meant, so I learned too!
I love this! And the poems are really good😁
Thanks!
Wow those came up really great!
It’s so creative, im impressed of what some of us can do! Good job!! 🥰
If I were to try, I can’t promise they’d even be coherent ahah ; love the first one!
Thank you! Haha my last one is barely coherent.
You read the perfect kind of books for these sort of dark (and pretentious) poems. I love it!!
Haha yeah they’re very supernatural-themed, thanks!
Love this! I love making poems out of random words. I think Only in Dark Blues is my favourite
Thanks! That is the one that I tried to give some sort of genuine meaning to, though it was still a bit of a stretch because of my limited words lol.
I’m a little late to the party. I love Only in Dark Blues! Great use of Mazarin. Do you write a lot of poetry?
Thanks! I don’t write poetry so much anymore. When I do, it’s usually little themed things or challenges, but I used to.
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I love this! I have made book displays for my library along these lines and I came up with some hilarious things. I might have to do a new display… 🙂
It’s fun to do this sorta thing! Being creative, but with limits, and it can have interesting results.
This is such a fun idea. Thanks for letting me try, too. I will soon post my version. I need to read your blog closer. I just always manage to fill my days so tightly, that I am falling behind on things like that. Ironic, for a blogger to miss put on other blogs. I hear it is very common, actually. Anyway, great creativity Kit!
Thanks! I enjoyed seeing the different ideas you came up with too! No worries, I’ve just been losing myself in games lately and ignoring everything else, so I haven’t done much bloghopping either.
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