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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A Cento is a poem entirely composed of existing lines from other poems. The end product can produce a surreal poetry of its own. Two couplets I remember from one I read many years ago go -
Lord Ullin reached that fatal shore
A highly respectable Chancellor
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It was roses, roses all the way
Nor any drop to drink.
Each poster posts a line which in some way matches the previous one - in rhyme, rhythm or (broadly) sense.
I went into a hazel wood because a fire was in my head
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QLib
Bad Example
# 43
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In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;
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jacobsen
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Beside a lake, amid the trees
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Welease Woderwick
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and miles to go before I sleep
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QLib
Bad Example
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But a waking dream of life and light
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jacobsen
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Busy old fool, unruly sun
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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QLib
Bad Example
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The ways deep the weather sharp
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[ 09. August 2014, 20:43: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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jacobsen
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Water like a stone
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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It would be nice to link your quotes to the poems.
Doublethink
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jacobsen
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That was from In the bleak midwinter by Christina Rossetti
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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So that's -
I went into a hazel wood because a fire was in my head
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be
Beside a lake, amid the trees
And miles to go before I sleep
But a waking dream of life and light
Busy old fool, unruly sun
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born
The ways deep and the weather sharp
Water like a stone.
I've seen worse in anthologies.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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New Cento
This is not Love, perhaps
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
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Horseman Bree
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Firenze: quote:
A Cento is a poem entirely composed of existing lines from other poems. The end product can produce a surreal poetry of its own. Two couplets I remember from one I read many years ago go -
I thought that Go-Go was a form of visual entertainment for the thigh-booted miniskirt crowd, a sort of one-sided precursor of disco.
"Go Go Round"
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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Glares mildly at the horseman.
New Cento
This is not Love, perhaps
Let us go then, you and I
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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please master can I kiss your ankles and soul
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