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June's Cento: Offerings

June's Cento: Offerings composed of all the lines from July's #PoetryLotD featuring poems from indie lit mags and small press journals. #JuneCC #CentoChallange #smallpresses #litmags #indiejournals

Can you hear them, Son—all the hopeless Voices flung into fistfuls of pulse— Talking backwards, toward lightless nights Sound that flies high to where there is no sky Said you writing of the past is you not having begun what you need to.

Your thread-thin soul chosen        especially for you. Body not yet aching with gravity. Your tiny hand in mine — home, now You—abstracted me. Radio static…

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Spring Cento

A little late, but it's FINALLY here... #Spring #Cento composed of all the #PoetryLotD from #April #CentoChallenge #AprCC #Spring #Poetry

The great globe reels in the solar fire: I am inside the paradox, the many lungs, The damasked, dusky hundred-petaled heart

Rising to fall, falling to rise As millions of photons whoosh through my hands Like a piece of sky — ready to plummet.

I would enter the sky through the soil To drink the quiet, like dirt And taste it in a moment, time and all.

All the flowers are forms of water: Lilie…

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April 8

The window trembles; liquid glass could shatter into rain. Apr. 8 Today's #PoetryLotD comes from "Rain" by Kazim Ali. http://bit.ly/2UCny2d Pic @MatteoCatanese @Unsplash #Spring #AprCC #NaPoWriMo #nationalpoetrymonth

Rain

Kazim Ali

The window trembles; liquid glass could shatter into rain.

Source URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54262/rain-56d23467ac47f

Photo by Matteo Catanese on Unsplash

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Houston Cento

Finished! #Houston #Cento composed of #March's #PoetryLotD #CentoChallenge #MarCC #poem [Photo CC 2.0 by NOAA/NASA GOES Project]

Act I

He cracked lightning bolts on stage with diaphragm & diction Into the burn of another’s life, the heat of clapping hands: Welcome to the land of dirt and spit, the very things God uses to build a masterpiece. But here is where the dream breaks down: Something happened in that abandoned field. The world is renaming itself. It is like hearing the whispering of stars in other galaxies Scattered in…

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March 9

This is the city we made together collectively by accident Mar. 9 Today's #PoetryLotD for the #CentoChallenge comes from "Our House (Among All the Homes in the City)" by @bworthdebarrios http://bit.ly/2XPGLMy #Houston #HTX #MarCC Photo @unsplash

Our House (Among All the Homes in the City)

by Emily Bludworth de Barrios

This is the city we made together collectively by accident

Source URL: http://www.harvardreview.org/?q=features/poetry/our-house-among-all-homes-city

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March 6

I am an eye on this hurricane. March 6 Today's #PoetryLotD for the #CentoChallenge comes from "Cryogenic Kids" by Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez http://bit.ly/2BXV1tB #Localpoets #Poetry #MarCC #Houston #HTown #HTX

Cryogenic Kids

by Lupe Mendez

I am an eye on this hurricane.

Source URL: http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2017/november/mendez-cryogenic.html

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March 5

This fire has been burning for years now #March 5 Today's #PoetryLotD for the #CentoChallenge comes from "And what is a black body..." by @AFalomo ft. Otis Berry + Damion Sam @WANPOETRY @damionsam #Localpoets #MarCC #Houston #HTX http://bit.ly/2XE1Qtv

“And what is a black body…”

by Ayonkunle Falomo ft. Otis Berry and Damion Sam; Write About Now

This fire has been burning for years now

Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYF5Qndv-Go

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March 3

I make mistakes; but I wear my scars March 3 Today's #PoetryLotD for #March's #CentoChallenge comes from "Fail" by Robert Lunday @rlunday #Localpoets #Poetry #MarCC #Houston #HTown #HTX http://bit.ly/lunday #houstonwriters #WIP #houstonpoets

Fail

by Robert Lunday

I make mistakes; but I wear my scars

Source URL: http://www.versedaily.org/2013/fail.shtml

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