Unlike blackout poetry, Highlighter poetry does not destroy unused text, it only highlights the poem within the text. I did this for the love of the book. I want to read and use the book again and again and can choose different highlighter colors or notations in the book to write more poems without destroying the original.

I purchased a very inexpensive copy or Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning. This book is in the public domain and if you want to read it I would warn you away from the hard copy I found. Instead of showing the book in verse format as intended, which makes it poetry, they pushed it in to one continues block of very fine print making it virtually unreadable as a poem. (Update, they changed the format of the book and doubled the price.)

Now back to the poems I created from this book, including pictures ( bad ones) and typed text.

Poem One from page 1 and 2

Of writing there is no end.

I will write for my better self.

Portrait to a friend—I travel inland—

Still I feel my father’s hand.

To sit alone, I write.

Upon my lips, uneasy breath—

My soul, about the world.

Words that make no sense, words…

There drifted past, cross and psalm, brain and heart.

To memory and silent grief—

On the outside—do not speak within.

No sadder thing; ghost friend,

angel, fairy, witch, sprite,

muse who looses sight,

or smile, or kiss?

Change and death mixed and merged in mystery.

Life, broken loose from soul,

No time.

To freedom! To action!

Thoughts unmade taught me grief and love.

Strong words taught how God laughs.

I am a fool.

One mistake.

They tell me Father, Mother breaks sometimes.

With God, still growing.

Poem 2 on Page 3

Love! Love!

Done with grief!

Delirium, endless days here and there,

tormented grief, my dispair.

The universe turned—looked upon me—

I wept, wept, then wept mad.

To strike, I think, upon grey, soured…

Smiling—fading between the abyss and the cage.