Cento or Mosaic Patchwork team challenge, A newer form in Karnak Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hi all.

I just came across this poetic form from a few different sites and posted it in Karnak.  

I thought it might be FUN for us to try a JOINT poem together!

For those who love the 'snippet' and 10-word' challenges we offer in the ACROPOLIS forum - check this out at:
http://forums.mosaicmusings.net/cgi-bin....;t=4672


Cento:

From the Latin word for "patchwork," the cento is a poetic form made up of lines from poems by other poets. It is a poem that is simply "patched together".  It is also called by some, a mosaic poem.  

Though poets often 'borrow' lines or phrases from other writers and mix them in with their own (that would be Cleo's snippet challenge responses  ), a true cento is composed entirely of lines or phrases from other authors' works. Early examples can be found in the work of Homer and Virgil.

With lines from Charles Wright, Marie Ponsot, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Samuel Beckett, the staff of the Academy of American Poets composed the following as an example (as found on this web link):

"In the Kingdom of the Past, the Brown-Eyed Man is King
Brute. Spy. I trusted you. Now you reel & brawl.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes--
A vulturous boredom pinned me in this tree
Day after day, I become of less use to myself,
The hours after you are gone are so leaden."


A Cento/patchwork/mosaic poem can be rhymed or unrhymed.

It can be created with an emphasis on lines or phrases, or the lines/phrases might be chosen because they contain a focused concordance of a specific word.


An example:

Hope Over Doubt *

When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
Still do the stars impart their light.
What is your substance, where of are you made?
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife
To see the world in a grain of sand.

Say not the struggle naught availeth.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
All is best, though we oft doubt.
Go and catch a falling star.

Copyright  © 2001, William T. Delamar
Line:
1) "Sonnet ii" (William Shakespeare);  
2) "Falsehood" (William Cartwright);  
3) "Sonnet v" (William Shakespeare);  
4) "Answer" (Sir Walter Scott);  
5) "Augeries of Innocence" William Blake;  
6) "Say not the Struggle Naught (Arthur Hugh Clough);  
7) "The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation" (John Bunyan);  
8) "Samson Agonistes ii" (John Milton);  
9) "song" (John Donne)



OUR TASK HERE:




Would anyone be interested in creating a Mosaic compilation together?

ADD A LINE OR TWO AND CONTINUE OUR OWN POETIC OUTPUT:

GOOD LUCK!    

I'll start:

If a clod be washed away by the sea

1) For Whom The Bell Tolls by John Donne

[Cleo_Serapis]

That's great Lucie!  :pharoah2

So now we have:

There was an ancient City, stricken down
Dead-pale between the houses high

(1) 'Four Riddles' by Lewis Carroll
(2) 'The Lady of Shalott' by Alfred Tennyson

 :dance: