Same Old/Same Old/Slightly Shaken (Cento to Tempus Fugit)
Same Old/Same Old/Slightly Shaken
(Cento to Tempus Fugit)
Had we but world enough and time,
I would compare thee to a summer’s day.
But Time’s winged chariot hurrying near–
Pray, help me undo this button.
Plunge your hands in the
wherefore base–
the flag of my disposition of hopeful
clay and wattles made.
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
arms could lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
But rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
and never, never, never, never, never
is icumen’ in,
So come live with me and be my love.
Ripeness is all. And now.
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The above is posted from my iPhone for the dverse poets pub –www.dversepoets.com. — prompt by Samuel Peralta to write a cento, which is a collage of lines from other poets. Mine is an amalgam from Shakespeare– King Lear and summer’s day sonnet– and Andrew Marvell, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Marlowe.
The photo has a lurking bit of the living in the midst of all those dried beautiful folios (leaves) and happened to be on my phone.
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ManicDDaily 
September 27, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Oh, this made me laugh! Great use of this form..
September 27, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I enjoyed this mixture of classic and twentieth-century. I loved the last two lines. Yes, ripeness is all. And now. Love the leaf picture. You did well posting from your iPhone!
September 27, 2012 at 4:38 pm
hahaha….nice word play k….nice sensual undertones as well…dang those buttons getting in the way…smiles…oh yes, time is but short so you might as well…..
September 27, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Good mix of the old and new to create word play and images
September 27, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Well done K! Really great use of both the classics and new to create an interesting and fun collage of a read!
September 27, 2012 at 5:41 pm
Spicy mixture you served up here. I’d love to know where the plunging hands are going.
September 27, 2012 at 6:19 pm
lovely!
September 27, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Beautiful… I love the beginning w/ Shakespeare.
September 27, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Gorgeous!
September 27, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Oh this is great. I like the buttons line. Made me laugh. Lucky the photo was already on your phone, but I’m so envious that you could do something so good from your iphone.
September 27, 2012 at 8:36 pm
I wish I read yours before I wrote mine..this was so much fun…I enjoyed the lightness blending in with the poetry lines ~
September 27, 2012 at 8:42 pm
This piece was great fun, mostly because your joy in it was contagious. So many possibilities, wow. Thanks.
September 27, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Very clever, two different era’s converge… and wow… 🙂
September 27, 2012 at 9:31 pm
This rocks! Shakespeare to now and back and here and elsewhere; and all on your phone, including the photo? Brilliant.
http://thepoet-tree-house.blogspot.ca/2012/09/accept-shadows-centon.html
September 27, 2012 at 9:34 pm
Thanks – I was just amazed that the iphone worked so well! Amazing device. k.
September 27, 2012 at 9:34 pm
So enjoyed this – love the final lines especially! K
September 27, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Formal, Sensual, and witty! Clever and adroitly constructed. I enjoyed it a lot.
September 27, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Absolutely loved this! You had me at the first three lines, and then the turn in the fourth – that was wonderful. And you played it beautifully all the way to that ending. Bravo!
September 27, 2012 at 9:50 pm
Thanks much, Sam. k.
September 29, 2012 at 5:28 am
I should have also mentioned… You made the connection well when you chose the photograph, and the words and image themselves make a nice collage
September 29, 2012 at 6:11 am
Thanks. Not sure people notice the toad but he–he feels like he– is such a cool little creature. K.
September 27, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Yes the buttons line had me in stitches, fun to re-read, and so well done!
September 27, 2012 at 11:35 pm
fantastic fun to read. you made this form, which truly reads as a collage, so light and lively. brilliant angle!
September 28, 2012 at 1:30 am
so cool that you even wrote and posted from your iphone…i know how cumbersome this is..ha…very cool weave as well k.. love the closure…So come live with me and be my love.
Ripeness is all. And now…..nice!!
September 28, 2012 at 6:18 am
Thanks. The autocorrect has its good and bad for sure! K .
September 28, 2012 at 11:17 am
This is marvelous!
September 28, 2012 at 11:33 am
Cool collage….loved the ending line esp…n the leaf pic
September 28, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Wonderful use of these works… given new life like the leaves will in the springtime. Lost and found poem in the best sense
September 28, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Thanks, Luke. k.
September 28, 2012 at 6:47 pm
And composed on an iphone no less. Impressive. I enjoyed this and love the leaf colors.
September 28, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Thanks, Sherry. I’m not sure that anyone notices the TOAD in the leaves! He’s incredibly well camouflaged!
September 28, 2012 at 9:47 pm
How nice to account for and blend the two different times. An iphone can bring such wonders! Amazing K!
September 28, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Thank. k.