Some books
beloved snow –
in the memory
of the forest
after dark
for whom the bell tolls
– ashes to dust
I wanted to create a variation too, where I use all the titles but add my own too..
my beloved –
as footprints in the snow
now lingering
in the memory
of the forest
but after dark
it’s even darker
and the forest speaks
for whom the bell tolls
that memories are like
– ashes to dust
and emptiness
Sorry for that, but I just wanted to put a little bit more meat in the stew.
Today Samuel Peralta have us do spine poetry at FFA. Take a picture and create poetry by using the book-titles. I took a look and found a few books, creating two haiku (or senryu). I changed the order a little but the titles are the one in the photo. I had a little bit too many Swedish books in my library to create great poetry… But come with your library and Join us at the pub at 9 PM CET.
Björn Rudbergs writings 
This is a very neat idea and I liked your haiku.
Thank you 🙂
This is beautiful my friend !!!
Thank you
Murakami, awesome author
I love all those authors… and there are actually 3 nobel prize laureates … I keep my fingers crossed for Murakami next week 🙂
Indeed! A Wild Sheep Chase just arrived yesterday, looking forward to getting stuck in 🙂
Very effectively done, Bjorn. I really do like the way you added your own variation as well. I especially liked your OWN last stanza, which really accentuated the dark feeling.
Thank you… October is great for dark poetry
I like that you have managed to write haiku with the titles you selected Björn! I also think that your addition of “meat in the stew” creates a most meaningful and beautiful poem.
Thank you.. hope you join tonight.
I will!
Brilliant!
Thank you 🙂
you created a masterpiece. wow!
Oh .. I’m humbled
nice…i like the found poem….but in your version, the footprints in the snow through the forest…that is an amazing visual….you did a great job with this bjorn
Thank you.. though it was a little cheating
Brilliant idea! I so happen to have a pile of books under my office desk, which I have finished reading on my way to work, and not taken home again. Thank goodness, since I am between permanent homes so all my books are packed away in storage at the moment ! 😦
Very nice… that how you should do it… and with everyone on Kindle it’s getting difficult to write poetry.
Thanks Bjorn. We all need to fight back at the Kindle overload! 🙂
Bjorn-man; leave it to you to find haiku in some titles; nice job. Like you, I wanted to add some of my own words to tie the titles closer together, but taking Brian’s lead, I only colored inside the lines. I love it that you found such a creative way to meet the challenge of the prompt & then improve upon it–a brave poet you are.
Ah.. yes bravery or foolishness… but that’s the way
Love it B!
Thank you..
I really like this type of “look and find” poetry among the spines. 😀 It can produce some interesting results. 😀
You should join
I may consider …. what is the link?
http://dversepoets.com
Thank you — 😀
both of them work very well björn… loved esp. the in the memory of the forest part… lots of room to interpret… it was so tough for me as i of course have much more german than english books… oy… maybe the same for you with swedish/english..
Definitely… I had physics books of course… but I don’t think it would have worked with “Classical Electrodynamics”….
I love both versions but the one with more ‘meat’ lends itself to a deeper visual.
Yes.. as poets its frustrating to do it without adding our own words.
Stunning haiku and I love your longer version. Brilliant poetry both ways!
Ha.. yes it was a fun prompt.
great one. haiku meets spine.
Thought haiku worked well
Excellent, and I loved the second version where you fleshed it out a bit. Awesome!
Thank you 🙂
Clever haiku -think I liked it the better of the two. Somehow forces the imagination to choose its own narrative; although I like the second too!
Both of your submissions are very atmopheric, wonderfully done!
I love both of them ~ Really impressed with how you weaved the haiku out of the first ~ And the second one, you made the emptiness darker ~
Oh very clever – love the haiku, and your version is very cool as well. Nicely done Bjorn.
I adore that first Haiku and think in some ways the second underscores its meaning. And like even more your doctored version. I rewrote mine , too, for G-man 55, but posted it separately.
Love both versions but especially the one with your added touch.
I like that you did both versions. No need for apologies for creativity and art. Peace, Linda
I like it!
Beautiful stack of books arranged in the most beautiful way! Both versions are winners, but I have fallen in love with the first haiku.
Beloved snow… something so haunting about this poem from first line to last.. the white silence of snow, the final silence of ashes to dust… they toll for us, those bells.
oh, this was beautiful and very clever use of form..I really enjoyed the 2nd poem woven with some of your own words..
Excellent Chewing here! Lots of meat.
Haiku are the perfect form to complement spine poetry, with the conciseness and use of imagery… you felt this intuitively, and it shows. Also loved your variation, weaving in your own words throughout, it makes for a really interesting extension of the original. Well done!
As brilliant as you! So brilliant!
I liked your version evoking the memory of the forest.
I thought the haiku had much more impact. The power of micro verse. Well done!
You have way more English language books in your library than I do Swedish ones. Even with a relatively limited selection, you’ve managed to produve a fine poem.
I love yours! YOU did a wonderful job with the challenge~
Spine haiku – great! The first one seemed especially wonderful to me.
Both poems are great, but I especially like the haiku…that does it for me…the haunting sense is powerful. Very well done 🙂
I like your vegetarian stew just fine! 😉
Love the haiku. Wonderful stuff. Thank you.
I too like the haiku…your addition was a nice read as well though!
Great books to inspire such a tight haiku masterpiece.
Loved both versions, and i find myself reading them over, trying to sense which do I prefer. I can’t decide!
Interesting. The first really does elude to everything below… and is so full. I usually think haiku is a form that is a bit too short – but here, I like it best. Really an amazing spine poem.
A good haiku can be very fulfilling (and actually can have much less than the 575 syllable count).