Quirky love cento*

Where are you going with your love-locks flowing?¹
You are the channel my soul seeks—²
let thy golden gutters run into
              my cup³
in sessions of sweet silent thought.⁴

As the phoenix builds her spicy nest,⁵
keeping her soul unto eternal mirth,⁶

I too am untranslateable.⁷

* A cento is a poem compiled using lines from other works. Try making one yourself!

1. This line is taken from Amor Mundi by Christina Rossetti, 1865–1875. ↩︎
2. From The Waterfall, Henry Vaughan, 1655 (with a slight edit). ↩︎
3. From Meditation 32, Edward Taylor, 1689/1954 version. ↩︎
4. From Sonnet 30, William Shakespeare, 1609 (slight edit). ↩︎
5. From A song, Thomas Carew, 1640 (slight edit). ↩︎
6. From The Timber, Henry Vaughan, 1655 (slight edit). ↩︎
7. Song of Myself, 52: 1332, Walt Whitman, 1855, 1881. ↩︎