How to Make a Found Poem

So I learned something really cool: how to make found poems.  First thing you do is pick a piece of writing. For example, you can choose a paragraph in your favorite book. For my explanation, I'm going to use a part from a book called The Cay by Theodore Taylor. This is the part from the book I have chosen:

During our seventh night on the island, it rained. It was one of those tropical storms that comes up swiftly without warning. We were asleep on the palm mats that I'd made, but it awakened us immediately.

So that is the part of the book I'm going to use. The next thing you do is highlight any part of the piece of writing that you like, which means any part that interests you or speaks to you. It could be words that you like. Or it could be a part of speech you like. Here is a visual:

During our seventh night on the island, it rained. It was one of those tropical storms that comes up swiftly without warning. We were asleep on the palm mats that I'd made, but it awakened us immediately.

Now take those parts you highlighted and make a poem out of it. Do it the way that appeals to you. You can repeat a highlighted phrase if you wanted to. And the visual:

It rained
Tropical storms
Comes up swiftly
Without warning

See how cool that is? Now you try it! Instead of highlighting the parts you like, you can also cross out the parts that you don't have interest in.

(Signature made by the wonderful EtherealComet)