- BookGirl1997
Book Poems Inspired by Song Lyrics
Updated: Nov 19, 2019
Book Burning (*“Confession” by Florida Georgia Line)
Inky black words mist into smoke
Tendrils reach towards the sky like a hand grasping for purchase
Fire crackles, ravenous, insatiable, burning and yearning
Gobbling warped parchment overlaid with scribbled stories
It is not enough.
Houses burn, cities blaze but stories cannot be incinerated
Embers burn persistently like memories that won’t let go*
Words trapped in a binding are merely set free
Told and retold in perpetuity, a verbal metamorphosis
Independent of material trappings
A book cannot be burned
Portrait of a Stumped Author(*“Migraine” by Twenty-One Pilots)
I do not have writer's block my writer just hates the clock*
A novel that does not exist has a deadline that does
A girl hunched over a desk, nibbling a pencil like a beaver
Surrounded by a towering mountain of crumpled pages
Her furrowed brow tells signals the departure of every half-formed sentence that was not good enough.
Blankly staring at a blank sheet of paper
The only sound is the audible ticking of a clock
Tick tock to the same rhythm as the tell-tale heart
Her eyes widen in fear as the hour hand slides into its new position
Tick tock. Feverish denial.

Artwork done by my incredibly talented cousin, Carissa! Instagram: @witch.hazels