Friday, March 27, 2026

Spine Poetry 26/31

We have been empty nesters for a few years although my daughter moved back home for two months last year. Our kids' bedrooms are upstairs, and after they moved out, I kind of took over this space. 

My son's room is my "writing room." I have two desks, and one faces out a set of double windows. I love to write here. I have my pens, notebook, and many writing books in this room. 

My daughter's room is my "reading room." It has many of my book stacks (that aren't in piles downstairs), a "lounge-ish" kind of chair for reading, and bookshelves filled with books read and to be read. 

Since I have no other ideas to write about today, I decided to spend some time looking through the books and creating some spine poetry! When I write these, I always wonder, "Do I capitalize them like a title?" and "Do I add punctuation?" This time I did neither!


if you only knew
my year in the middle
the school for whatnots
can you see me
forget me not


parachutes
ten thousand tries
impossible escape
a soft place to land

Thank you to Two Writing Teachers for creating 
a space for me and other teacher-writers to share our stories.

2 comments:

  1. A reading room and a writing room - awesome! I also enjoyed your book spine poetry today.

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  2. I love book spine poetry! Thank you. Having both a writing and a reading room - what luxury. I too turned one of the kids' rooms for me and yet I find myself writing in the living room mostly.

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