NaPoWriMo - The Consequences of Falling

 

 

Yesterday's NaPoWriMo prompt was to "write centos — poems made up entirely of lines from other poems." 

I did something a little different. I put Pandora on shuffle, and listened. This happened:

 

The Consequences of Falling

What if no one’s watching
When the evening shatters and stars appear
And life’s like an hourglass glued to the table

Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill
Till the heart caves in
Wrapped in a ribbon of glass

To tread this fantasy, openly
Crashing me by, crashing me by
But love forgot to make me too blind

Alone in the city infested with faces
And in the shadow I find a way
Inventing ways to play out time, like us all, like us all

Do you know this? Do you know you did not find me?
Now I can’t disappear
When everything else is a fade

 

The lines are from:

      Title: K.D. Lang, The Consequences of Falling

1. Ani DiFranco, What If No One’s Watching
2. Adele, Make You Feel My Love
3. Ana Nalick, Breathe (2 AM)
4. Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston, When You Believe
5. K.D. Lang, Till the Heart Caves In
6. Annie Lennox, Cold
7. Portishead, Over
8. Mazzy Star, Blue Light
9. Jane Siberry, Love is Everything
10. Ani DiFranco, Pale Purple
11. Tori Amos, Girl
12. Ani DiFranco, Recoil
13. The Cranberries, Ode to My Family
14. Mazzy Star, Disappear
15. Corinne Bailey Rae, Like a Star

 

 

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