Hello again. We’re all staying home and safe these days, grateful for essential workers, and looking to make it through financially, mentally, and physically now.
For today’s activity, which won’t take much brain power, we’re going to make a cento poem. Cento poems are patchworks created from various lines taken from different poems.
There’s a really interesting spin on this in which a poem is constructed from emails, check that out here.
I’ll begin today’s patchwork poem with this Emily Dickinson line from poem 561 (I measure every Grief I meet):
I wonder if it hurts to live –
Please add your poetic line and let me know which poem and poet it is from in the comments.
