Hey everybody here is a little post that has found poems from my favorite series. The Books of Elsewhere by Jacqueline West, whom i recently interviewed.
taken out of their rightful homes, these words are burgled and twisted mercilessly from her amazing stories, combined with a few strange words of my own and the following found poems are the result.
Her words from the series are part of a story of a young girl named Olive her combatting the sinister powers of the mysterious house she now lives in.
heres a link to an interview i recently did with the author of the Elsewhere series Jacqueline West!
http://www.reachandteach.com/content/article.php?story=elsewhere
I made these first poems from pages 8, 18, 28 and 48 respectively.
They are love poems, unrelated to Olive, I dedicate these poems, except the one from page 28 to my wife Kelly Durham.
poems are numbered by the page they are found from in book one of Elsewhere, The Shadows.
first poem:
Maybe at 8
We are in the darkness where even moonlight cannot reach
we all live inside our own paintings,
sometimes we are in such darknesses
maybe not (page 8 part 2)
while walking slowly away, you look back,
eyes over your shoulder,
darkening
18
shadows on that painted forest path to Elsewhere
the house moaned and whispered
with my head on the pillow beside you
while you fell asleep
28
rid yourself of me
Your response, "don't get too anxious
theres nothing you can do about it"
headed towards the window
personally
I love someone new
as you disappeared
in ripples of goosebumps
the house moaned
forever I am replaced by a soft tapping on the door.
58. verify
hesitating,
we rarely give ourselves any careful attention
but if we do we see things others cannot,
brilliance all around us
alas, we are all too absorbed to notice
i know we are all beautiful
those are dangerous words,
am I right?
