POEM STARTER

Create a cento using lines from your favourite poems. You may also wish to use lines from your own poems, but the end result should be coherent!.

A cento is a poetic form made up entirely of lines taken from other poems, which are woven together to create a new, unique piece.

Cento: Lines From Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry

I am very hungry. I am incomplete,

little as a drop from grand,

unscrewed, released, no more to be marvelous

in solitude, without a hand to hold,

to bear enormous business all alone

and the fear that strikes and strives

when the desert terrifies,

all bright, all bestial, snarling marvelously

to fail, to flourish, to wither, or to win,

and I ride, ride, ride, on to the end.

Comments 2

Rosaline

3 months ago

This is so good! I love Gwendolyn Brooks!

L Butchart

“There are horses made of shadows, winged with the breadth of nightmares, that poets fly over the chasm of the void… Sometimes… I ride one. [then] Whoosh, like a torrent of night wind, I land, rustling what is there, looking for the light.”