A Lesson in Possibilities (Cento)
Seed Across Snow
And Luckier
The Apricot and the Moon
Night Ladder
To Those Who Were Our First Gods
Imaginary Vessels
Witness
Light into Bodies
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
Incandescent
Tangle
How to Enter the River
Solitary Spin
Blue Etiquette
The Shortest Distance
~ Created from titles of chapbooks and collections, in order of appearance (including title): Paula J. Lambert, Kathleen Driskell, Leatha Kendrick, Cathryn Essinger, Lois P. Jones, Nickole Brown, Paisley Rekdal, Jeanie Thompson, Nancy Chen Long, Eleanor Wilner, Linda Parsons, Pauletta Hansel, Jeanie Thompson, Barbara Sabol, Kathleen Driskell, Kathleen Thompson.
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Karen – Amazing how you do this and have it make perfect sense!
Love these lines :
Witness
Light into Bodies
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair
Incandescent
Tangle
Truly an art to make poetry out of other peoples words… this was great! thanks.
Thank you, Sylvia and Wendy!
I love how you did this with titles. I tried my first cento this year with borrowed lines, hoping I could get them to say something. You really do that!
So nice! And that second stanza is killing me.
KAREN! What you create out of nearly nothing by arrangement is astonishing. Six line stanza, five line stanza, and then three. That girl with bees in her hair.
I’m honored to be the last line. A triangle tapering to that last line. Thanks for this.
You’re welcome, Kathleen!
Yes, the second stanza.