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#cento
The 'gyre' hints arrival- Twenty centuries making room For a new epoch, I’m a modern bird now, I may sound haphazard, troublesome, and brooding unimportant topic for hours, It's up to you to lend ear or not; I was a winged rooster confined to land only, Now I’ve become a 'hawk', with knowledge of flight perhaps power too, Seeing the world from far above Envisioned me a seer sight; I see the world functioning; the lowliest on top, the best in daze, and mediocre relishing mediocrity, One or two good men wasting life in poetry which none cares. Oblivious armed men guard the periphery; White termites gnaw the door at the Centre. At this height, all seem different, I can’t relate with my earlier self; My knowledge seems nothing but a frail sound in a vacuum. When I became 'conscious'- My dreams stopped being dreams— My thoughts were invaded daily— Life evolved in million years— 'God is dead', the universe all naked. We’re the supreme, the Satan both; Busy in triumphing Desires. Converging all— blazed my beliefs. We’ve progressed too much, portends trembling of the earth And smoke eclipsing the sun. 'Death I breathe', War looms again, Life is traded in forfeited currency. I see the world functioning, I know one or two tricks too to cheat, To assault, to **** to loot. I can foresee the end— Its good to die starving then Fly in the proximity of land.
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May 5, 2019
May 5, 2019 at 5:52 PM UTC
Arrival !
My baby is a headfuck Is someone getting the best of you? I tried so hard and got so far And now the end is near Turn around bright eyes It’s time to say goodbye I want to break free It’s my life, it’s now or never Take me, anywhere, far away, from here Made a wrong turn once or twice I’m hanging by a moment There’s still tomorrow, hold on, hold on With a rebel yell Like a champagne supernova in the sky It’s time to try defying gravity And you can tell everybody I’m moving on up And you’re gonna hear me roar I’m free as a bird I believe in a thing called love And I’m feeling good
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Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 5:38 PM UTC
Ending and Beginnings: A Cento
It makes my flesh crawl to hear you Yesterday, you know. He should’ve been at the funeral Friends and relatives of the missing gathered Like a flame made weak by lies. The good news was pounced upon and passed on It couldn’t be a coincidence The man's head had been sawed open You didn’t close the door. You let them in. You killed him.
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Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018 at 11:27 PM UTC
Cento: Horror Books
I went to the river last night Dreamed of being a river and sleeping like a river You searched for a **** who was like a river Along the East River and the Bronx Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, River! that in silence windest On its way to a rendezvous with some river
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Jan 14, 2016
Jan 14, 2016 at 2:34 AM UTC
The Piers (a cento)
The possibility of free declamation anchored And lucid, inescapable rhythms Do have meaning. They're strong as rocks In the deep-toned Aeolian mode For the listener, who listens in the snow, A Poet could not but be gay, The Impotence to Tell – Still makes a poem a surprise!
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 10:54 PM UTC
Writing in the Closet, a Cento
The fundamental things apply Or that proud Aragon bent low his head, is Achilles possible side by side with powder and lead?
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Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 11:53 PM UTC
Unfinished Cento
We met at the bar and I formed a new band With their feet full of tar and their head full of sand Yes, I got a desert in my toenails, Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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Dec 23, 2015
Dec 23, 2015 at 11:40 PM UTC
from King of Centos
"Unlock my heart with a sonnet-key?"1 The Rose Is Obsolete, But,2 her perfect feet,3 A poem should not mean / But be4 An axe to break the frozen sea within us.5
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 4:38 PM UTC
Lines (a cento)
I've always enjoyed thinking about the reasoning of our existence Man was made in God's image Then came woman to comfort man Which u did by the way. Thank you If eve never ate the Apple, man would have been immortal So most men blame women for not making us live forever But she did anyway It made God decide a place in the heavens for us So in a way, even the first woman knew exactly what she was doing She did an exceptional job
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 5:46 AM UTC
thoughts of a dying soldier (cento)
A door in the mind blows open - It floods with grey matter And hot stares. Ashes of darkness Coupled with Tears of growth This is incomparable. Roller-coaster rides And unrecognisable mirrors; We've steeped into a portal of surrealism: With sins and judgement calls that question The very essence of our hearts. I really do not want to grow up. I'm a pair of pigtails who can't Climb up a step. Push me, push me, but I can't reach. When I feel my faith restored In the overlap Of green scenes and dental dexterity - I can only think of one line to combust me: "He's just being nice."
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 5:33 AM UTC
benzene and formaldehyde
"No, just stop. No, just stop. No, just stop." How long did I live like that? "I'm out of money." "Most people would **** for that score." This is for the other woman. You enjoy breathing, beauty and truth. We do live in a place where the rain hits the windows. I'll be there. The future is on the next page. It's so loud in there right now. He looks ancient. Getting what you want destroys you.
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Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 7:51 AM UTC
Cento
Row words through the riverous air - The poison in your papers Pituitary glands in the sun - Solar sweat The ripping in your repetition; The cracking in your cranium.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 7:17 AM UTC
a cento