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.
a swift affair
Hey December, guess I’m feeling unmoored
Six months gone and I’m still reaching
for the best and worst day of June,
the one that I met you
I think about summer, all the beautiful times,
that July 9th, the beat of your heart,
you smile that beautiful smile - you made me so happy!
but it turns back to sad
When I fell hard, you took a step back,
Left me dreaming dreams with happy endings.
August slipped away into a moment in time
I’ve still got you all over me
September saw a month of tears
So much for summer love, and saying, “us,”
‘Cause you were never mine
But I still don’t know, how did it end?
I recall late November holding my breath
It was months and months of back and forth
Summer went away, still the yearning stays,
but now my winter nights are taken up by static