Write a Found Poem

Choose a poem from a book and write a different poem using the words that you "found."

That Day

by Sarah Yousuf Al-Theyab

That day

I don’t know what happened ?

It feels like I want to cry

And I don’t know why ?

Is it because I was happy

or was sad ?

I see the old pictures

I can’t control my self of crying

I remember everything

I remember , I remember 

I have been closed up all day

by Ghada Al-Saegh

I have been closed up all day

Speaking of unimportant stuffs inside rooms

Now finally I have become visible into the night,

Myself in a middle of darkness

Beneath the clouds the low sky sparks

With sprinkled light. I can barely think this is happening.

Here in this optimistic nonappearance of day,

 I feel myself developed with pleasure.

All over the place around me the soft rain is whispering

Of thousands of feet of air

Imperceptible beyond us.

The rude mirror
always there
looking
thinking
round on the pink wall
stares
at me
a face
I stare back
always.