A Cento Challenge

This month Every Day Poems offered up a challenge to "craft a Cento from some of your favorite Every Day Poems lines." They also added this extension.

For some extra fun, you’re invited to hand-letter your Cento poem, using a different style or color for each unique line you’ve gathered from another poet. Or, you could put each line on a different slip of paper and collage your poem together.

Challenge accepted!

Here is my untitled cento. (Click to enlarge.)

It reads:

the whole world’s chanting desire

between stars or heartbeats

beyond reach, beyond reckoning 

and in slow-motion

a tide, incoming: vast

when pulled away, return always to me

The lines in this cento come from the following poems:

• Black Dirt by Helen Pruitt Wallace
• Report [an excerpt] by Elizabeth C. Herron
• Grendel In Dawn’s Early Light by Rick Maxson
• Into the Woods by Laurie Klein
• Into the Woods by Laurie Klein
• Juliet’s Aubade by Sara Barkat