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Te Dominus Amat (a cento poem)

And Te Dominus amat was all you said.
Like a dream that makes you
want to go back to sleep.

Magnified apples
appear and disappear
with shades and echoes of

whispered vespers by a hissing lamp.
Blue-horned beetles scratch
against the night sky,

and Te Dominus amat was all you said.

Lines 1 and 10: And Te Dominus amat was all you said (Agape by Timothy Murph). Lines 2 and 3: Like a dream that makes you want to go back to sleep (Momma Said by Calvin Forbes). Lines 4 and 5: Magnified apples appear and disappear (After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost). Line 6: with shades and echoes of (After Fifty Years by William Faulkner). Line 7: Whispered vespers by a hissing lamp (Agape by Timothy Murph). Lines 8 and 9: As blue-horned beetles scratch against the night sky (Appleblossom by Eric Ekstrand) 

NaPoWriMo Day 30: Write a cento poem. ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #glopowrimo #napowrimo on Twitter