poems of boxes

So Tuesday’s dVerse Poets prompt, “April Poems Bring May Centos”, was of two possibilities. Choose any line from any poem from those provided and write a poem including the line or inspired by it or, you could instead, try your hand at a “cento” (a poetic work wholly composed of verses or passages taken from other authors) also from any of the poems provided and to use at least two. In this case those poems provided for both were from April dVerse poetry prompts.

There were selections of poems from six different prompts and I went with the ones for “A Box Of Poems”, a prompt summarized as “write a poem of your own metaphorical box of 3 stanzas, the box, what’s in it, where’s it kept”. Then I decided to take the “Cento” route with this prompt as I had never done such.

7 poems and one of mine, also of a box, that used the prompt for inspiration but strayed from the particulars and went a different way.

So, the poems used for this Cento then . . .

Hidden In My Box – Bjorn Rudberg

History Box – Kim M. Russell

I Have Emptied You To The Wind – Paul Vincent Cannon

Empty Cereal Box – Melissa Lemay

Here Is A Box – Dora A.K.

My Master – Ben Alexander

Boxed – Punam – paeansunplugged

Cigar Box – Frankenberry

A Village of Box

The boxes are piling up