Cento Poem

The moment that I saw her

She played a fiddle in an Irish band

I was twenty-four years old

Oh, I could have that voice playing on repeat for a week

On the summer day when I proposed

She shared a cigarette with me while her brother played the guitar

Down by the Wexford border

And then she kissed me like there was nobody else in the room

And we got married wearing borrowed clothes

Our coats both smelled of whisky and wine

Never had I seen such beauty before

I was holding her hand, her hand was holding mine

Over sixty years I’ve been loving her

I met her on Grafton Street right outside of the bar

Twenty-two grandkids now growing old

With my pretty little Galway Girl

Cento technique, taken from Ed Sheeran’s “Nancy Mulligan” and “Galway Girl”