Thread: Short Story Poetry

So I Got This Idea From My Lit Class
It's Supposed To Improve Reading Skills And Help To Reveal Hidden Meanings Within A Story/Article/ Etc/ Etc

The Point Of The Game....If You Want To Call It One
Is To Go Thru A Short Story And Underline Certain Words That You Think Hint Some Sort Of Importance

Than I Decided That With The Words Underlined...To Create Some Sort Of A Poem

For Example....I Got These Two From The Story:
Powder By Tobias Wolff

HERES THE LINK http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/media/pdf/en/EEE_Powder.pdf



Poem One
One last run
Several last runs
Criminy
I stuck to him
Like white on rice
Sailing off a cliff

I could see everything
Right Doctor?
Supposed to Say Right Doctor

A pair of saw horses
Blocking trooper
Bleached snowflakes
Clung to eyebrows

Caution Turned
Nothing But Snow
Humming Stars Fell On Alabama

Strong Points
Just Anybody Can Virtue
Humming Again

Strong Points....Name One
I Always Thought Ahead
To Insure Proper Rotation
I Knew We’d Get Caught



Poem Two
Father Took Me
Because
My Mother Was Angry

Christmas Eve
Bitter, Blinding, Squals
Hissing Sand

Father Looked At His Watch
Fast One

The Road Was Closed
Storm Took Everyone

"Your Mother Will Never Forgive Me"
She Wont Forgive Me
Do You Understand? Never

No Guesswork
She Wont Forgive Him

I Want Us All To Be Together
Again

"Come On, Come On"
Come On

One Should Be Aware
Chains, Stiff Rasps
The Engine

Feathery Flakes Drifted
Parrallel Lines
Between Them
Riffs The Melody

You Always Thought Ahead
My Father Would Wheedle And Plead
He Didnt Sing
Buying Time Before My Mother
Split Final

Here And There
Hints Road Ditches
Fences, Stakes
Father Was Driving

Coercion
Trusted Him


Heres Another Shorter One From

The Bride Went To Yellow Sky
By Stephen Crane

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-st...s/BriCom.shtml

I've Titled It From The Story
"Jewish Women"

A Man;
Cries Rang,
The Arch Of A Tomb.

Hunted Still Doorways
Windows

The Cords Of His Neck
Straightened And Sank

Chanting
Apache Scalp-Music








Heres The Next Story

A Good Man Is Hard To Find
By Flannery O'Conner

A Good Man is Hard to Find

too much reading for poets huh?

so i dno why no one likes this game...anyone? maybe its too much but im in school so im like overflowing with stories
so i did another one.....its fun lol


This is from The Lesson By Toni Cade Bambara....i guess if you guys want you could post your own story...jus leave a link or something


Bambara's "The Lesson"

The Lesson

Back In The Days
Me And Sugar
We'd Be Presentable
For Travel

Like Going To Church
Blood-Deep Natural Thing
With Me And Sugar

Starch In My Pinafore
Scratching Surly,
Hair Ribbons,
Mama's Lipstick

Everybody Dressed Up
In Stockings,
Fur Coat
Gabbing In A Speck of Blood
The Air Around Us

Hands Doing The Mining
Me And Sugar Curtsy
Each Sheet Smell
Like Roses

We All Start Reciting
Recitations
Put Me In A Trance

Somthing Up Her Sleeve
Me And Sugar
Turn The Corner
Where The Entrance Is

I Step Away
For Sugar To Lead
She Hangs Back Too

Its Like The Time
Me And Sugar Crashed
Into The Catholic Church
On A Dare

The Hushed And Holy
The Candles
The Bowin
The Handkercheifs
The Drooping Heads
The Altar
The Holy Water

Sugar Givin Me The Elbow
Waiting For A Sign
The Sky Sniffs The Air
How Much Slant Is The Bird
Formation

Me And Sugar Bump
Smack Into Eachother
Me And Sugar At The Back
Sugar Nudges Me In My Pocket