As the readathon approaches those difficult, dark hours of darkness and night, we'd like to challenge you to think about how you feel about all the reading you've done and all the lack of sleep you've had (and are still not going to get), all that time you've spent sitting on your poor backside and turn aaaaaaall those thoughts and emotions into a poem.
Write a haiku about that perfect seat that is comfy, but not so comfy that you fall asleep.
Write a love sonnet about how you miss your bed or an ode to your favorite author, who has gotten you through most of the day.
Write a dirty limerick about...something readathon-ish.
Whatever you prefer!
Here's the poem I would enter:
An Ode to Coffee
Coffee! Coffee! Coffeeeeeeeee!
You taste so good.
You keep my eyes scanning the page,
but you make my brain too jittery,
to understand the words.
Coffee! Coffee! Coffeeeeeeeee!
You certainly don't have to rhyme or use any specific poetic form. Just take a few minutes to write a poem about your readathon experience and post it in the comments of this site (or post a link to your own blog where Monica and I can find your poem, if you prefer).
One super-awesome-cool participant will be chosen at random to receive a $10 gift card to Barnes and Noble.
And by "random" I mean, I'll read all of the entries and try to pick the one that amuses me the most or that feels like an authentic readathon experience that any of us could relate to. But since I have the problem of my brain being jittery due to all the coffee, the selection process will wind up being pretty random. Yay, random!
So, enter a poetic state of mind and...WRITE!
Just ate a brownie
ReplyDeleteThere are crumbs on the pages
Delicious reading
We must be crazy
ReplyDeleteI know I get those looks...
Staying up all hours,
Just to read books??
But oh what a journey
Nested in the pages
Just let your mind wander
Be youthful through the ages
The power to transform
Ordinary to great
Fantasy worlds like no other
Questioning our fate
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blkosiner.blogspot.com
Also posted at my blog. :D
ReplyDelete‘for one more day’ it is another reading challenge day!
having fun reading throughout the day
with challenges along the way
now with the late hours of the day approaching
my eyes are needing a bit of coaching
i want to try to finish my goal
to reach the end of another reading challenge day!
I posted it on my blog... http://www.bookworminginthe21stcentury.com/2010/10/readathon-update.html
ReplyDeleteA read-a-thon Haiku:
ReplyDeleteOh beloved couch
Soft and warm and welcoming.
Why won't my son share!!
My brain is sighing,
ReplyDeleteMy eyes are crying,
My arms are shaking,
My wrists are aching,
My vision is blurring,
My speech is slurring,
My resolve is lagging,
My attention is flagging,
My body is drooping,
But I am regrouping!
Don't want to mislead --
I do love to read!
More hours I'll spend,
I'll get to the end.
And then, quite brain-dead...
I'll fall into bed!
My cat is meowing at me,
ReplyDeleteHe's so cute and fuzzy.
But if I am going to stay up for the full 24,
He's going to have to stop or I'll shut in his face...the door.
Too tired to think,
ReplyDeletemy brain has turned pink,
My eyes are red
and want to go to bed,
My books keep calling my name
so instead of sleeping in shame,
I blink, try to think,
and sit up so I don't sink.
I continue reading.
Posted my poem here, a haiku. Copy/pasted:
ReplyDelete"In three hours the sun
will rise; wakeful I'll meet it,
a book in my hand."
(But a B&N card would do me no good, being a Brit.)
These droopy eyes will not win the fight.
ReplyDeleteThese pages must be read.
I turn to caffeine to help me fight off,
the world between wake and sleep I tread.
I wrote a haiku. It's posted on my blog, and here it is too:
ReplyDeleteClock ticks past bedtime
Giggles hide between the lines
Midnight, I read on
I turn the pages
ReplyDeleteSo quick
So fast
A book of wonder
A book of magic
Devouring words
Nibbling ideas
Worlds to be found
People discovered
Book ends
Covers close
I reach for another
~Kanaye
Five stories up
ReplyDeleteTwo books down
dragonflies attack the balcony
Pages read
Treats consumed
statistics don't tell the whole story
Sunny day
Gentle breeze
Ready for tales of pirate glory
Here's my poem:
ReplyDeletehttp://derapsreads.blogspot.com/2010/10/deweys-read-thon-hour-16-update-mini.html
Thanks for encouraging me to wax poetic at this hour!
this was so fun, i got started and couldn't stop... i wrote 3! this is my favorite though, but i think i will put them all up on my blog, if only for my own amusement. =D
ReplyDeleteShort books,
Was all it took,
To keep me happy,
Without a Nook,
And I didn’t have to cook,
During the Readathon!
rest are here if anyone is bored and want a laugh ;)
http://lissaslongyarn.blogspot.com/2010/10/poetry-crazy.html
Eyes - itching
ReplyDeleteCat - scratching
Letters - switching
BUT:
Attention - latching
Story - catching
Experience - enriching.
What fun! Thanks for hosting.
ReplyDeletehttp://fillingmypatchofsky.com/2010/10/09/reading-madness-hour-17-11-p-m-cts/
There once was a girl in the library
ReplyDeleteWho was known with books to tarry
She read like a snail
While others inhaled
It's a read-a-thon shame she must carry
Haiku:
ReplyDeleteLove this read-a-thon
Didn't read all that I planned
But made some new friends
Read, read, read
ReplyDeleteOh our love for books
Stretch,stretch,stretch
Oh my back might cracks
Coffee, coffee, coffee
Sounds a good drink for me!
elladsm2002 at yahoo dot com
I posted at my blog! http://www.eclectic-eccentric.com/2010/10/readathon-report-hours-16-17.html
ReplyDeleteWill said
ReplyDeleteReading day and night
Using whatever available light
Before i lose my sight,forever.