She Had Been the Beauty of Song

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

~Percy Bysse Shelley

She will end like the fading of music,

a lovely note drawn to its silent conclusion when

her song, having reached crescendo, dies. Soft

lilting, beautiful in its sad demise, she joins voices

of angelic choirs, all endearing songs that would die.
Every sound resonates and vibrates

filling the air with the cacophony of death’s knell. In

the evening when all is silent and still, she sings the

song of her beauty to live in my memory.

©CE-2016

"Golden Shovel" poem taken from "Music, when soft voices die"a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

 From "Quickly's Winter Doldrums" - Jan. 30, 2016:

 

January 30

The Borrowing Poet

In his poem “The Golden Shovel” Terrance Hayes takes “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks and repeats it twice. Each word of the original becomes an end word in the poet’s new poem.
Read down the right margin of “Golden Shovel,” and you get “We Real Cool.”
“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks
“The Golden Shovel” by Terrance Hayes

I want you to do something similar.
Choose a poem that you like or admire. (You’ll have noted that the Brooks poem is relatively short. You can use a line, a couple of lines, a stanza, an entire poem.)
Remember that your poem doesn’t have to be (probably shouldn’t be) about the same subject as the source poem.

OPTIONS:
1) Use your chosen section as Terrance Hayes did, to create your own Golden Shovel.
word word word word word the
word word word word fog
word word word word word comes
word word word word word on
word word word word word word little
word word word word word cat
word word word word word word word feet
2) Easier, but not as cool–let your selection read down the left margin. Begin your lines with its words.
the word word word word word
fog word word word word word
comes word word word word word
on word word word word word
etc
3) Forget the shovel, and use your chosen section as your poem’s title, first line, or epigraph
Whatever you do, give us the names of the poet and poem, and a link to the original piece.