Found Poetry

We have been creating poems out of an existing text.  It is not as easy as it looks.

Here are some examples of poems we have 'found from a chapter of the book The Switch by Anthony Horowitz.

Nightingale Square

A full moon

empty shadows raced ahead

a few minutes after midnight

the black night sky

had once brought tad discomfort.

Danica

Katherine’s Found Poem

Nightingale Square - taken from The Switch by Anthony Horowitz

There was a full moon.

As Finn and Tad crossed the empty square,

Their shadows raced ahead.

Everything was pale and grey.

Buildings like paper cut-outs

Against the black night sky.

Tad glanced at the house,

It was tall with classical

white pillars,

Three windows and a balcony.

Tad crossed another world

Everything was square

Tad had in mind

Number twenty nine

My lucky number

Tad glanced

It was tall and wide

Steps leading up to the front door

Next to it

At the black

Thick ivy followed

Past a balcony.

by Manny

 There was a full moon that night

The empty shadows

Searching

Somewhere to hide

A few minutes after midnight

The church bells toll

They seemed far away

Almost in another world

Everything was pale

Like paper cut outs against

The black night sky

In areas of London

Number twenty nine

That’s my lucky number, Bobby- boy

Tad glanced at the house

Narrow, white pillars

On the corner of the square.

By Matthew

Macey’s Nightingale Square Poem       

There was a full moon,

Empty square,

Shadows raced searching for somewhere to hide,

A few minutes after midnight,

The church bells toll the hour

They seemed far away,

in another world.

Everything was pale,

Buildings like paper cut-outs against the black night sky,

One of the smartest areas in London.

Once brought with growing discomfort.

Metal railing,

White pillars,

On the corner of the square,

Thick ivy grew past the windows.