Book Page Poem

A long time ago, I saw on Pintrest a writing activity where one takes a page from a book and uses the words on it to write a poem. I instantly fell in love with that idea, thinking it uniquely awesome. Well, the first time I tried it (and every time since) I learned that while it is fun it is also incredibly hard. Each time I take up a page I often find myself stringing together words only to find that the next perfect word for the poem I'm creating doesn't exist anywhere on the page. As a result, the flow and subject of the poem usually spirals into a different direction than I'd wanted.Sometimes that is fine and I am left satisfied with what I've created, however other times I am not. On one such occasion while I did warp the poem I was developing to fit the words on it's page, I also chose to continue my original vision afterwards and what you'll see below is the result.

Clouded daylight eclipsed suffering,

and allowed instead some

glimpses of grace and gaiety,

creating a certain strange beauty

that unrolled it's wild eyes and

fierce soul setting free 

the fire of the eternal world

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p.s. I realize I've shared nothing about life in Utah since arriving but I promise that actual post doing just that is in the works and will be posted soon