carry on tuesday

Carry On Tuesday # 46

2010-03-27T17:19:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday March 30th

This week our prompt is the opening of The Confessions of Max Tivoli by
Andrew Sean Greer, 2004

We are each the love of someone’s life

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read about The Confessions click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 45

2010-03-20T14:33:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday March 23rd

This week our prompt is the opening of the poem The Poet and his Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar

A song is but a little thing,

And yet what joy it is to sing!

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read The Poet and his Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 44

2010-03-13T14:28:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday March 16th

This week our prompt is the opening of Isabel Allende’s 1999 novel Daughter of Fortune

Everyone is born with some special talent

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read more of Daughter of Fortune and learn a little about Isabel Allende click here!
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Carry On Tuesday # 43

2010-03-06T15:37:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday March 9th

This week our prompt is the start of The Beatles song Love You To

Each day just goes so fast

I turn around - it’s past

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment.

To hear Love You To and to read more about it click here!

Carry On Tuesday # 42

2010-02-27T12:28:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday March 2nd

This week our prompt is the opening of Elizabeth Peter’s 1999 book The Falcon at the Portals
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What is it you find so amusing, dear?

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read more about The Falcon at the Portals click here!

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Carry On Tuesday # 41

2010-02-20T09:38:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday February 23rd

This week our prompt is the opening of Michael Crichton’s 2004 novel State of Fear

In the darkness, he touched her arm and said ...

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose changing ‘he’ to ‘she’ or 'I' if necessary, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read more about State of Fear click here.

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Carry On Tuesday # 40

2010-02-13T13:39:00.001-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday February 16th

This week our prompt is a quote from the 19th Century poet and politician Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fear not for the future

Weep not for the past

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read Shelley’s wonderful poem To A Skylark, click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 39

2010-02-06T14:34:00.000-08:00

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Your prompt for Tuesday February 9th

This week our prompt is the openings lines from the song Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera

Night-time sharpens,
heightens each sensation.
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To hear the song and read the lyrics, click HERE
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Carry On Tuesday # 38

2010-01-30T15:40:00.000-08:00

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Your prompt for Tuesday February 2nd

This week our prompt is a quote from Martin H. Fischer

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read more Martin H. Fischer quotes Click Here
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Carry On Tuesday # 37

2010-01-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday January 26th

This week our prompt is a quote from the 18th century artist Sir Joshua Reynolds

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read more about Joshua Reynolds Click Here

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Carry On Tuesday # 36

2010-01-16T14:58:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday January 19th

This week our prompt is the start of Robert Browning’s poem Grow old along with me

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read the complete poem click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 35

2010-01-09T09:08:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday January 12th

This week our prompt is part of the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read a little more click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 34

2010-01-02T07:11:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday January 5th

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This week our prompt is taken from a quote attributed to the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read the entire quote click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 33

2009-12-26T07:49:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday December 29^th

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This week our prompt is the opening of the poem New Year’s Reality Check by Joanna Fuchs

Another year, another chance
To start our lives anew;

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read New Year’s Reality Check click HERE!

Carry On Tuesday # 32

2009-12-19T15:31:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday December 22nd
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This week our prompt is the whole of a delightful Christmas poem!

When I was a child
I believed in Santa Claus
When I got older
I didn’t believe in Santa Claus
When I became a parent
I was Santa Claus
Now I have grandchildren
I look like Santa Claus

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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

A very happy Christmas from Keith at Carry On Tuesday

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Carry On Tuesday # 31

2009-12-12T03:23:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday December 15th
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This week our prompt is the opening lines of Touch by Octavio Paz

My hands
open the curtains of your being.
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read Touch by Octavio Paz click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 30

2009-12-05T13:16:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday December 8th
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This week our prompt is the opening lines of a very short poem by Jessica Blade entitled Your Name

I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read Your Name by Jesssica Blade click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 29

2009-11-29T01:19:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday December 1st
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This week our prompt is the opening line of The Good Soldier by Ford Madox. Ford, 1915

This is the saddest story I have ever heard

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

IF MISTER LINKY HAS GONE MISSING AGAIN PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT WITH YOUR URL

To read about The Good Soldier click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday #28

2009-11-21T16:33:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday November 24th
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This week our prompt is the opening line of John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

My heart aches, and a drousy numbness pains my senses

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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read Ode to a Nightingale click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 27

2009-11-14T02:03:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday November 17th
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This week our prompt is a quotation, author unknown

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever

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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

To read a few more anonymous quotes click HERE. I'm certain you'll enjoy them!

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Carry On Tuesday # 26

2009-11-07T15:10:00.000-08:00

Your prompt for Tuesday November 10th

This week our prompt is the
opening sentence of Graham Greene’s 1951 novel The End of the Affair

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A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky and a comment

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To read more of The End of the Affair click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 25

2009-10-31T15:44:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for TuesdayNovember 3rd

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This week our prompt is the title of Sarah McLachlan’s song
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In the arms of an angel
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read the beautiful lyrics and hear the song, click here

Carry On Tuesday # 24

2009-10-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday October 27th
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This week our prompt is a line from
the 1998 movie Aliens
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"We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly

come at night... mostly. "
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment

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To read about Aliens
click here
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Carry On Tuesday # 23

2009-10-17T08:40:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday October 20th

This week our prompt is the opening line from

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since

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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read the first chapter of this

delightful book click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 22

2009-10-10T16:22:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday October 13th

This week our prompt is a quote from Victor Hugo
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey
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Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read more Victor Hugo quotes click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 21

2009-10-03T15:14:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday October 1st
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This week our prompt is the opening few words from

Samuel Beckets book The Unnamable

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Where now? Who now? When now?

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, and then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment

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To read more about The Unnamable click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 20

2009-09-26T15:31:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday September 29th
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This week our prompt is a quotation from the Austrian dramatist Friedrich Halm

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Two souls with but a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose, then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read more about Friedrich Halm click here

Carry On Tuesday # 19

2009-09-19T15:43:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday September 22nd

This week our prompt is a complete quotation from the Nobel Literary prize winner Albert Camus

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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Pick whichever piece of it you wish and use it within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment

To read more about Albert Camus and to view more of his quotations CLICK HERE

Carry On Tuesday # 18

2009-09-12T13:53:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday September 15th

This week our prompt is the opening

sentence fromEhud Havazelet’s 2007 novel

Bearing the Body
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The letter sat before

him, unopened,

propped against a coffee mug
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment

To read more about Bearing the Body
click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 17

2009-09-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday September 8th
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This week our prompt is the opening lines of an anonymous poem entitled ‘Farewell'
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Don’t speak,
words will only steal the moment

Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.
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To read and hear the complete poem 'Farewell'

click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 16

2009-08-29T13:18:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday September 1st

This week our words are from the opening line of the novel City of Glass which was written by Paul Auster in 1985
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night,
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read about City of Glass click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 15

2009-08-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday August 25th

Instead of an opening passage, the prompt this week is a line from verse two of Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Please feel free to change the first word to, for example, he, she or they.

(We) loved with a love that was more than love

Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe click here.

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Carry On Tuesday # 14

2009-08-16T09:47:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday August 18th

The prompt this week is part of the the opening sentence from The Floating Island by Jules Verne.
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When a journey begins badly it rarely ends well

Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment
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To read about The Floating Island
by Jules Verne click here

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Carry On Tuesday # 13

2009-08-08T15:19:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday August 11th.

The prompt this week is the opening sentence from The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

We think we know
the ones we love
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose.Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment

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To read about The Story of a Marriage

by Andrew Sean Greer click HERE

Carry On Tuesday # 12

2009-08-01T14:27:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Carry On Tuesday
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Your prompt for Tuesday August 4th
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Our prompt this week is the opening sentence from The Open Door by Elizabeth Maguire
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The story is in

the journey,

not the destination
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose.Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linkyand a comment.
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To read about The Open Door by

Elizabeth Maguire click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 11

2009-07-25T17:16:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday July 28.

Welcome to Carry On Tuesday.

Our prompt this week is a quotation from from John Lennon

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose.

Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky

and a comment.

To read more of John Lennons quotes click HERE

Carry On Tuesday # 10

2009-07-18T15:03:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday July 21

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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week is the opening lines of the Charles Dickens tale David Copperfield.

Whether I shall turn out to be

the hero of my own life......

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read about David Copperfield click here

Carry On Tuesday # 9

2009-07-11T19:17:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday July 14

Welcome to Carry On Tuesday.

Our prompt this week is the opening lines

of the poem Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Dream on, for dreams are sweet:"

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read Dreams by Paul Laurence Dunbar click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 8

2009-07-04T17:00:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday July 7
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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week
is the opening lines of the poem The Listeners by Walter de la Mare

"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller,

Knocking on the moonlit door

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read The Listeners by Walter de la Mare click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 7

2009-06-27T15:42:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday June 30.

Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week

is the opening words of A White Rose

by John Boyle O’Reilly (1884 - 1890)

"The red rose whispers of passion,

And the white rose breathes of love"

Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.

To read A White Rose and to read the fascinating biography of the poet click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday #6

2009-06-20T14:27:00.000-07:00

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Your prompt for Tuesday June 23.
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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week is the opening words of You Would Have Understood Me by Ernest Dowson. 1867–1900
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You would have understood me, had you waited;
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky and a comment.
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To read You Would Have Understood Me click HERE

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Carry On Tuesday # 5

2009-06-14T12:42:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday June 16
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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week is the opening words of the poem The Fear by Robert Frost

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A lantern light from deeper in the barn
Shone on a man and woman in the door

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky (fingers crossed he keeps going this week) and a comment
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To read The Fear click HERE

Have fun!

Carry On Tuesday #4

2009-06-06T13:49:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday June 9

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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week is the opening words of the 1990 novel by A.S.Byatt entitled Possession. It was produced as a film in 2002 which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart.
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The book was thick and black and covered with dust. Its boards were bowed and creaking
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) in a comment

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* I have had to delete the Mister Linky box as it was causing the entire site to run slowly. Links that made it to Mister Linky before it went pear shaped are now showing as comments. Young Linky has a lot to answer for!

To read a synopsis of Possession and the entire first paragraph click HERE
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Carry On Tuesday #3

2009-05-30T01:29:00.000-07:00

Your prompt for Tuesday June 2

Welcome to the third week here at Carry On Tuesday.Our prompt this week is the opening of a poem by Christina Rossetti entitled A Ballad Of Boding
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There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams

What seems is not always as it seems.

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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky below and drop us a comment..

To read the original work click HERE

Have fun!

Carry On Tuesday # 2

2009-05-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

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Your prompt for Tuesday May 26th

Welcome to the second week here at Carry On Tuesday. Thank you to all of you who got us off to such a great start last week. Our prompt this week is the opening of a poem by Siegfried Sassoon entitled Everyone Sang

Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
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And I was filled with such delight
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) with Mister Linky below and drop us a comment.
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To read the original work and see an old film of the author reading his work click HERE
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Have fun!
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Carry On Tuesday #1

2009-05-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

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Your prompt for Tuesday May 19th

Welcome to the first Carry on Tuesday. This week our prompt is the opening line of A Walk After Dark by W. H. Auden

A cloudless night like this

can set the spirit soaring

Use it at the start or somewhere within your verse or prose. Then leave the url of your post with Mister Linky below and drop us a comment.
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To read the original work click HERE
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Have fun!