Children's Poetry

My attempt at writing a Cento poem

Do you [care at] all for me,

The lady and the knight,

Wasting the hours in doors?

I’m hiding, I’m hiding, I’m the forests of the night,

The autumn frost;

The middle of the night.

The edge of the world does not look far away,

For the Angel of Death spread his wings,

Whistling, “I am not a little boy.”

Swift things are beautiful,

So lonely, people say,

“It’s only in my dreams.

So deep in love am I

You abandon your intent.”

“You lie,” he cried,

A gurgling, chuckling water voice,

“The meadows where we play,

The leave are whirling fast.

It’s always pleasant when you spot it.”

His eye is like a star.

The stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes.

I half turn to go, yet turning to stay,

I go,

“Haha! Haha!

If you can dream �" and not make dreams your master,

I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.

The blackbird

Befriended a stranded star,

But o heart! Heart! Heart!

That is not akin to paint.

I find this claim incredible.”

Author's Note

A cento is a poem that takes each line from a different source. It is usually a hundred lines (hence the name) but they don't have to be. The challenge is taking lines from different sources and making something new with them. These were taken from my children's book of poetry. Listed below is the author's whose lines I used.

Annymous
Dorothy Aldis
Cecil Francis Alexanders
Maya Angelou
Frances DensmoreRichard Armour
Bashō Matsuo
Hillaire Belloc
John Berryman
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Peter Blue Cloud
Ropert Burus
Yosa Buson
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Mary Jane Carr
Lewis Carroll
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Sara Caleridge
Stephen Crane
Claude McKay
Edgar Allen Poe
Christina Rossetti
Marianne Moore
Galway Kinnell
Rudyard Kipling
E.E. Cummings
Alfred Noyes
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
Ogden Nah
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reviews

[Elisa]

So every line is by a different poet? If so it blends quite well and it must have taken a lot of work to get it this way. I like it! A couple things through me for a loop, but it tied together nicely by the conclusion.