I’m reading “Inkheart” by Cornelia Funke at the moment – a children’s book actually – but it’s spins its magical threads so nicely that I think it’s a good read for adults as well.
By the way – I admit – I love children’s books…
However – in that book there’s a bookbinder – and he really loves books
He used to read aloud to his wife until one day, something strange happened… in short… three characters from the book suddenly stood in his living room while his wife and his two cats were gone… most probably into the book and no matter how much he tried, he couldn’t read them back… neither this nor that way…. and that’s how the adventure started….
That birthed the idea for today’s MTB… in the pre-christmas magic time we’re in…write a poem where…
- something or someone that/who is not real suddenly comes alive
- a character from a book shows up in your poem
- someone suddenly disappears and finds themselves in a whole new place….
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Are you in for a little magical poetry..?
–Claudia
dVerse 
I loved this.. and picking up a character from a book and let him walk our streets is pretty cool…
smiles… love what you did with pinochio… he has changed a lot since i saw him last…smiles
Last week I did another one on Cinderella.. so I had in my blood-stream.. 🙂
good evening….alright, i make myself comfortable with a book here at the corner table, waiting for your stories… smiles
I can join you.. at the moment I am reading Bleak house.. it takes some time … maybe children’s books are better in some way..
what is the story? bleak house seems to be a haunting name…
Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens’ novels.. many consider it one of his best. You should read the first 2 pages if nothing else.. it’s pure poetry.. The story is as usual with Dickens quite complicated with many characters.
very cool… will def. check it out…
I love Cornelia Funke – what a wonderful imagination, not just for children!
Will do my best to add a poem this time… magic is all around us… tomorrow though!
did you read the thief lord as well? it plays in venice and love the story as well…
The book sounds great. Is the author German? Children books re wonderful, for adults too.
yes – she’s german – i even know someone who knows her in person – ha
How cool!
I am always looking for an excuse to write about Zorba, & you gave me the perfect segue, as I embellished on some dialogue from the Kazantsakis book, the movie, & my imagination. Wow, real transporting to a place I have never been, except in a book or movie. It also gave me a chance to record more of the Zorba character & let my old Actor out of the bag.
smiles… your actor self always seems to be present in your poems…
bedtime for me over here… will try not to lose myself into a book overnite and see you tomorrow morning… smiles
I was so lost in a book that I forgot I hadn’t read the poems written to your prompt. Mea culpa, but my eyes are too sore to start now. In the morning…..
Claudia, What an awesome prompt! It inspired my first Christmas poem of the season. Thanks for tending bar today. Peace, Linda
nice… christmas poem sounds good…over to read in a bit..
Hey, the link for quest4peas does not take us to the site; sad moment on the trail.
He commented on my post today so I was able to go read is very nice poem. I left a comment there telling him he should come post a new link, but I guess Claudia or someone with admin privileges will have to remove the link back here. Peace, Linda
I fixed Bryan’s link. It now leads to his poem.
Thanks for fixing my link, Mary! After posting my link, I was offline for quite a few hours, so it was nice to see the error corrected by the time I knew about it 🙂
You’re welcome, Bryan! No trouble at all.
thanks for fixing the link mary…
i will be around in the morning…just got home…we had a pretty major deal go down at the end of school…and then i had to run to my sons band concert….just getting home…if i can i might be up before bed…
oh heck… hope you managed to solve things… the band concert sounds pretty cool… sleep well bri…
I had one already written about the rain…I think I managed to adjust it to fit the prompt? I will make my rounds later tonight,, as usual. Thank, Claudia, for the fun idea!
on my way over to read… i love rain poems…
Ha, I had a bit of fun with this one, Claudia. No ‘serious poetry’ for sure, but I decided to write a response to Bjorn’s poem!! Smiles.
And I decided to respond to Björn’s and Mary’s.
Ha I love the mess we have created .. Wonder how this will be saved.
haha… that def. sounds fun… now you have me all curious… smiles
Well, I just think that there must be more of a scoop on that Snow White too! Here Doc is sick in the hospital, and there SHE is hanging around in some bar. Hmmmmm, I wonder who SHE was meeting there! Ha, there is so much below the surface of those old tales. If children ONLY knew……….
Wonderful prompt….have entered mine….will return soon to read …eagerly…
hey sreeja.. nice to see you…
I loved reading my kids books that had magic aloud. There is something special about it. My favorite was “The Blue Sword”
The girls would snuggle up on either side of me and we would go where only the mind sees. I think that’s what builds magic’s delight – in our mind’s eye we visualize it just right ( for us )
loved reading to my kids as well… need to check out the blue sword… smiles
I’m LOL to the max, it’s like dVerse Pub is hosting Fairy Tale Theater; what absolute nutty fun indeed! I almost wrote one about the elder Harry Potter & friends; great minds, similar ruts, right? Although it might make an interesting prompt to start the chain of poetics with certain fairy tales, books, or movies, & have the lot of us writing adjuncts to it; just saying.
Some interesting prompts Claudia. I’ve jotted them down in my ‘prompt account’ for the future…
Nice prompt Claudia… sorry to have missed the deadline:(