Day-11
NaPoWriMo-2026
Prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write your own erasure/blackout poem. You could use a page from a favorite book, a magazine, or what have you. It can be especially fun to play with a book you don’t know, particularly one that deals with an unfamiliar topic. If you’d like to go that route, maybe you’ll find something of interest in the thousands of scanned books at the Internet Archive? Feel free to maintain the whitespace of the original text (as is traditional for erasures/blackouts... if anything can be called traditional about them) or to pluck words/phrases from your chosen source material and rearrange them.
I recently completed reading " Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. What a powerful book. It lifts one's spirit to a higher order. Pain cannot be separated from existence. It makes one stronger to face every challenge in life with determination.
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Participating in: NaPoWriMo-2026
I love that book, and you made a good erasure poem. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the stoic, reflective tone of this poem. Good job.
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