The Versesmith

🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃   Wordle #294   First, a few lines from Lord Weary’s Castle , a book of poetry by Robert Lowell. From: The Ghost (After Sextus Propertius)*   “ You cannot turn your back upon a dream, For phantoms have their reasons when they come :” Prompt words in red. I sleep alone , yet not entirely alone . I lay in dark secret whisper ing to a ghost . Someone no longer bone , now un washed and rotting black . Still, under my silk canopy she sparkles golden.   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserve #mindlovemiserysmenagerie #MLMM #wordle#294 #theghost #robertlowell #freeversepoetry #wordpromptpoem #wordpromptpoetry   *Sextus Propertius was an Italian poet of ancient Rome.  Published in 29 BCE, the first of his first four books of elegies is called Cynthia , who is the heroine of the works.  Cynthia, real name Hostia, was the author's mistress.  In elegy IV:7 Cynthia's ghost is featured.  https://www....

My B post was Blackout , a form of Found poetry.  Today, F is for Found Poetry in general, with an example of a Cento.   Cento is Latin for "patchwork," and is written entirely of lines written by other poets.  It is sometimes referred to as a "collage" poem.  I find them quite fun to write.  I probably spend a bit too long on them, starting with as many lines as I do! My cento takes the lines of two poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Robert Lowell.  It also has an introduction with lyrics from a Jackson Browne song. The poems are listed after my found patchwork.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_moon_setting_over_Lanai.jpg “And the heavens were rolling Like a wheel on a track And our sky was unfolding And it'll never fold back Sky blue and black” Jackson Browne , Sky Blue and Black   Tonight a blackout. Twenty years ago,   when time was open-eyed, I saw the sky descending, black and white.   My breath c...