tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post1666662588294701101..comments2024-03-29T10:42:49.480-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Monday Poetry Stretch - CentoTriciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-45527567986535844272010-07-17T08:36:48.738-04:002010-07-17T08:36:48.738-04:00I've written several centos, but I get worried...I've written several centos, but I get worried that the authors might see them and be offended.<br /><br />Here's a link: http://evelynnalfred.blogspot.com/2010/05/mercy-chapbook-challenge-poem-one.html<br /><br />The author is Toni Morrisonevelyn.n.alfredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08171703688316482928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-55543032456154623622010-06-26T10:43:31.816-04:002010-06-26T10:43:31.816-04:00Listen Children
Believing in sex and god and poli...Listen Children<br /><br />Believing in sex and god and politics<br />A people sometimes will step back from war.<br />There are more like us. All over the world.<br />Petals on a wet, black bough.<br /><br />Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore.<br />Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?<br />Here is a breathing body and a beating heart<br />where the world has not been Amy L Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03830987204619914326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-32218650160463741492010-06-25T13:42:11.582-04:002010-06-25T13:42:11.582-04:00I wrote a cento from the Frog Pond Journal. You c...I wrote a cento from the Frog Pond Journal. You can find it here:<br />http://deowriter.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/poetry-stretch-cento/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-55629697179007617102010-06-25T08:23:12.639-04:002010-06-25T08:23:12.639-04:00Interesting? I'll have to try to write one. Wr...Interesting? I'll have to try to write one. Writing Cento poetry would be great to introduce to teens. Maybe, it would get them reading beyond the title.<br /><br />Mary Nida SmithLife's Beautiful Pathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630968386149876795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-65430531326142710512010-06-23T12:36:46.665-04:002010-06-23T12:36:46.665-04:00Hi, Tricia,
I just discovered your blog today and...Hi, Tricia,<br /><br />I just discovered your blog today and wish I'd known about it many Mondays ago! Like you, I enjoy cranking up a challenge, so I wrote a...<br /><br />Cento Cinquain<br /><br />Daddy<br />Seeker of truth<br />There is another sky<br />And that has made all the difference<br />To you<br /><br />Sylvia Plath “Daddy”<br />http://www.sylviaplath.de/plath/daddy.html<br /><brUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08723250638093282329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-12482026953729727212010-06-23T09:16:38.369-04:002010-06-23T09:16:38.369-04:00These cento lines are from Mother Goose and other ...These cento lines are from Mother Goose and other poems in the oral tradition, using The Real Mother Goose and Rosemary Wells's two Mother Goose anthologies.<br /><br />Jack's Song<br /><br />Come with a whoop, come with a call,<br />Wither dost thou wander?<br />To see a fine lady upon a white horse <br />When cloudy is the weather.<br /><br />For this is the house that Jack built.<br />Kate Coombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138566291199003171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-59599084671394778022010-06-23T09:13:01.715-04:002010-06-23T09:13:01.715-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kate Coombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138566291199003171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-12978805545867415002010-06-23T08:19:23.735-04:002010-06-23T08:19:23.735-04:00Oh, I love centos and wish I had time to play this...Oh, I love centos and wish I had time to play this week. Maybe while browsing at ALA, I'll try to create some from new fall titles!laurasalashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807781795919555208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-23051613923382137552010-06-21T16:38:53.921-04:002010-06-21T16:38:53.921-04:00Night Lines
I lean back as the evening darkens an...Night Lines<br /><br />I lean back as the evening darkens and comes on,<br />The curfew tolls the parting of day.<br />It was a summer night, a close warm night.<br /><br />There is a NIGHT within the NIGHT.<br />I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned,<br />For time shall come that all shall changed be.<br />O pour it in the sawdust glow of night,<br />In silent night when rest I took.<br />Dorainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04421672075192660319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-59740645397481019502010-06-21T15:59:22.216-04:002010-06-21T15:59:22.216-04:00Since I am in Scotland, thought I’d try an all Sco...Since I am in Scotland, thought I’d try an all Scots Cento:<br /><br />To see the stretch of my childhood,<br />Go back in peace, take what you have gained, <br />Where there is room , that water goes<br />The wood was sere, the moon i’ the wane.<br /><br />And all that’s best of dark and bright,<br />When larks rose on long thin strings of singing,<br />Mid rustling leaves and fountains janeyolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15396863710083180775noreply@blogger.com