My very first cento (remixed poem) inspired by the works of my favourite poet - John Keats titled 'Unfathomable Love' gets published on Dead Snakes.
Here is the link for my all readers. Though I do not think cento is purely a creative piece by a writer/poet so I am not much into it. I see it as recreating something out of someone's else work. Wanted to try, my editor liked it, and got it published.
http://deadsnakes.blogspot.in/2016/03/archana-kapoor-nagpal-poem_21.html
Unfathomable
Love
A
cloud across the moon, -- the lights bring in!
A
thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Sweet,
holy, pure, sacred and innocent,
But
here there is no light
Still,
still to hear her tender-taken breath
Before
my pen has glean'd my teeming brain
Exact
in capitals your golden name;
My
heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
That
I shall never look upon thee more,
So
fondly I'll breathe, and so softly I'll sigh,
With
good advices; and I here remain,
My
spirit is too weak; mortality
And
so live ever--or else swoon to death.
Sources - Poems of John Keats:
A Thing Of Beauty (Endymion)
Bright Star
When I have Fears
Ode To A Nightingale
Sonnet
Stanzas To Miss Wylie
