Golden Stars

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Think, my love, of all the stars:
a river of prose approaching the idea,
slow motion behind the screen of leaves, I wish you
grains of the golden sand
to melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night--
in any universe, you are my dark star
you are the queen of my heart.
A certain sun keeps rising on my belief in you
that in black ink my love may still shine bright.

1st line: “Bright Bloom” by Helen Achazar , 2nd line: “On Distance” by Sally Keith, 3rd line: “First Fall” by Patricia Guzman, 4th line: “A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe, 5th/6th lines: “On Love” by Kahlil Gibran, 7th line:“Superposition” by Sameer Gadhia, 8th line: “Love Buzz” by Kurt Cobain, 9th line: “That’s the Way My Love Is” by Billy Corgan, 10th line: “Sonnet 65″ by William Shakespeare

I wrote this cento for this week’s Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt. This week, Dawn provided the prompt and asked us to write on the theme of love. Here’s a bit more from the prompt itself about a cento:

Essentially, a cento is composed of lines of poetry from other poets’ works. For this prompt, please weave together as many lines of poetry from other people’s poems (of your choice) as you’d like. Make sure to note the source poems for the lines you incorporate into your cento!

This was a fun one to write and definitely a challenge to get the different poems to work smoothly together. As a result, I’m just making the deadline for this post. 😀

14 thoughts on “Golden Stars”

  1. Sarah this one is a delight! You’ve used so many diverse poems and poets – everything from song lyrics to Shakespeare and modern poets, poets foreign and domestic! A really wonderful compilation! And this poem does speak of a wonderful love!

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    1. Thank you! It was exciting to see what sort of variety I could pull in there and if I really could transition from the Smashing Pumpkins to Shakespeare. It’s possible apparently. 😂🥰

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  2. definitely a challenge to get the different poems to work smoothly together

    I know, right, Sarah? It’s really difficult to get it just right!

    I just love how you bring together the

    river of prose

    and the

    running brook that sings its melody to the night

    together into this piece… it’s simply magical!

    ❤
    David

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