dVerse: Poe Gone Mad

dVerse: Mix and Match

Our challenge is to try a new form of poetry. In looking over the choices, I was immediately drawn to collage because that is my dominant form of art in images. The cento is a new poem created from bits and pieces of verse from other authors. Will have to do some research but here goes.

Polyvore by Grace Beam

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep

deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there wondering, fearing

a wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

the darkest evening of the year

there fell a silvery-silken veil of light

I shall be telling this with a sigh  

between stars—on stars where no human race is

and be one traveler, long I stood

the starry voice ascending spreads

in the silence of the night

is but a dream within a dream

so that now, to still the beating of my heart

pressing the brain, which too much thought expands,

back to its proper size again

The lines are mostly from Poe and Frost with a few from a famous poet site. Not an easy task but I like the concept.