Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt challenges us to write our own erasure/blackout poem. We can use a page from a favorite book, a magazine, what have you, and we can choose to maintain the whitespace of the original text (as is traditional for erasures/blackouts . . . if anything can be called traditional about them) or to pluck words/phrases from our chosen source material and rearrange them.
Jane’s Moon Secret
Erasure poem after L.M. Montgomery’s Jane of Lantern Hill
Moon secret
Dream voyages..
A shimmering world
of shining silver hills.
The trick?
the looking-glass…
Really
fairy fields
white moon-blossoms,
silver polish
No end of fun
Thin crescent
western sky
dreary day hope
moon spree at night
two hundred
thirty thousand miles
away.
~ Vidya @ LadyInReadWrites
From the end of Ch 4 and the end of Ch 7, Jane of Lantern Hill by Louisa May Alcott.
Just Because
- Jettison: to throw away or discard something, especially from a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft in an emergency
- Jingoistic: showing extreme, aggressive patriotism, especially in a way that is loud or warlike
- Jitney: a small bus or shared taxi that follows a flexible or informal route; also a low-cost ride service
- Jocoserious: mixing joking and seriousness at the same time (half playful, half earnest)
- Jaboticaba: a tropical fruit that grows directly on the trunk of a tree, with a grape-like appearance and sweet pulp
- Jalousie: a type of window made of adjustable slats (louvers) that can be tilted open or closed; also used for layered pastry in some contexts
- Jape: a joke, prank, or playful trick
- Jentacular: relating to breakfast (especially early morning breakfast)
- Jib: the triangular sail at the front of a sailboat; also means to refuse or hesitate (as in “he jibbed at the idea”)
- Joggle: to shake or move slightly up and down or side to side; a small irregular movement
Jolly-Good Books
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Just Like Me by Vanessa Brantley-Newton (Poetry, 5-7 years, and up)
An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that’s just for them.
Just One Gift by Linda Sue Park and illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng (Novel-in-verse, 8-12 years, and up)
Description: The assignment: If you could give someone special in your life a present—just one gift—who would you choose, and what would it be? Discuss.
And Now, the End of This Post
Dear reader, have you tried erasure poetry before? If 👍🏻, can you share it? If not, will you try it out? Which book will you pick first? Which words appealed to you?
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