Cento from John Masefield

poem for daily poem day 6 - honorable mention

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Where the bent grass beats upon the unplowed poorland
I’ll never fare to sea again a-temptin’ Davy Jones,
And the pale survivors left us by the medium of the plank.
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
With the little beauty of a human face




Prompt ▶︎

NEW PROMPT : NOV 6

PROMPT: CHOOSE YOUR FAVORITE POET AND WRITE A CENTO

The cento is a poetic form composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. Yes, it is a legitimate poetry form—The Cento .

Cento can use multiple poets, but also only one poet. Today we are using ONE poet's work.

Restrictions: you may only use ONE line from each poem.

You can use as many of the one poet's works as you like.

I think I used lines from... Sea Fever, Night Is On The Downland, Hell's Pavement, A Ballad of John Silver, On Growing Old, The Lemmings, An Epiloge