Found Poem Cut-Up

Arranging words.

Lines from the list of novels below were cut up and mixed together. Club members chose handfuls of lines and arranged them into poems.

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich, Pearls of Wisdom compiled, selected or devised by Harry Millner, The River Between Us by Richard Peck, The Last Treasure by Janet S. Anderson, Coroline by Neil Gaiman, Journey by Danielle Steel, Under the Watson’s Porch by Susan Shreve, Princess Academy by Shannon Hale,Spells Trouble by Clarice Bean, The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories by Mark Twain, Men are from Mars, Women from Venus by John Gray, Life: Selected Quotations by Paulo Coelho, and By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho.

In order to live fully

by Rawa Yousfi

You must give up everything else.
She printed out the story and turned off the computer
Then she drew a picture of the little girl dancing
and she finally asked Jack if he'd seen it
when he was last home on leave from the army. He
looks sad and dreamy, and doesn't talk with anybody.
It was safe in the house with Uncle Jack.
The idea of being a princess promised many things

"Quick!" Cast your eyes on

by Fatima Faleh

the man going out at the
door" someone coming in and doing
more. I wondered why Miss
Esa nodded, and Miri noticed
that her eyes were just
nervous.

always be a shadow to her laughter

by Abdelrahman Kamel

a corner of sadness
beside me bathed in the clear morning light
stopped down at the very end, where a full-length mirror
"Okay, listen," Jess said suddenly. "Listen. The picture,
Remember: never behave arrogantly
The bigger the fool, the louder he laughs.
To make people laugh, you must remain serious.
"Well, they didn't say it in a very nice way," I said.
"It's very moving."
feeling.
It wasn't a statement about me because I understood
Not every laugh is a happy one
So why don't you just dig up this treasure
what we laugh at reveals our character.

pinkly uncomfortable

we laugh sometimes
already bitter it seems
feeling more and more cheerful.
The floors were solid and he hadn't mentioned love again
since he had given
to give it

the following story illustrates
how when a woman started talking about
how excited she was to go on this trip
I thought of all those people leaving
and going else
instead of the

She can't even speak English
because everyone's got cats of their own already

I've been back at school

by Maha Ahen

a whole week now.
When many of them know
there's hardly enough
room to all day, Omakayas
and her grandmother
worked played the flashlight
up again. And, see? you see
there? There and then and
one wants to see one's
friends before it's shadows,
you know? The one that was
here, that Elizabeth has had
my row with Dad, the
biggest row of my life,
"Look at the land around
here!" he said. "Let's lie
maybe you should lie down."