Carry On Tuesday # 85

Your Prompt for Tuesday December 28th

With the NewYear fast approaching, our prompt this week is the opening line

from Helen Hunt-Jackson’s poem

New Year’s Morning

Only a night from old to new!

Use it within your poem or prose then leave the url of your piece with Mister Linky.

A comment would also be appreciated!

To read Helen Hunt-Jackson poem, go to Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Christmas

 May I wish you and the ones you love a Very Happy Christmas

To read a selection of actual letters to Santa - some cute, others funny and several poignant, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus 

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Your prompt for Tuesday 14th December

Today I’m offering you not the first line of a poem, but its title. The words can be interpreted in so many different ways - messages misunderstood, signals misread, good deeds not appreciated or a lifelong lack of empathy as in the poem. In the words of Stevie Smith.....

Not waving but drowning

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 Not Waving but Drowning and hear me reading it visit Carry On Tuesday Plus  

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Your prompt for Tuesday 7th December

This week we have a famous quotation from A Midsummer Nights Dream (act 1 scene1)by William Shakepeare

The course of true love never did run smooth

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 our quotation in context visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday 30th November

This week we have the first line of Elton John and Tim Rice’s song from The Lion King, The Circle of Life

From the day we arrive on the planet

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 lyrics and listen to the song visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday 23rd November

This week we have the first line of George MacDonald’s extremely long poem A Book of Dreams Part 111

A gloomy and a windy day

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 poem, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday November 16th

This week we have the first few words of The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

In my younger and more vulnerable years

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 book and catch a bit of the movie, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Tuesday # 78

I've given you next weeks prompt a day earlier as I am away holiday today. The FOLLOWING week, the prompt will appear a little later than usual, on Tuesday 16th October


Your prompt for Tuesday November 9th

This week we have the first line of an ancient folk song called My Love which was brought up to date and recorded by Steeleye Span in their inimitable style a few years ago

Do you remember what we promised when we met...?

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 My Love and read the lyrics,visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Tuesday # 77

I promised you something lighter this week, so here goes

Your prompt for Tuesday November 2nd

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier starts with the words -

Last night I dreamt I..........

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 snippets from Rebecca, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Tuesday # 76

I’ve been wondering whether or not to use this week’s prompt since COT started, as I’ve been unsure exactly how it would be received. Thinking about one’s own death is not to everybody’s taste, but let’s face it, it needn’t be sombre.


The words of Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier are as relevant today as they were when they were penned at the outbreak of the first world war in 1914.

We all have something in our lives worthy of celebration, so let's go for it! Here’s the deal – play along with me this week, and I promise a bit of fun next time around!

Your prompt for Tuesday October 26^th

This week I’ve taken the opening line of Rupert Brooke’s poem ‘The Soldier’.

If I should die, think only this of me:

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 Soldier and hear it read, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday October 19th

This week I’ve taken a line from the movie The Italian Job

“Look, if there’s one thing I’ve learned.........”

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 watch the trailer and read some more quotes from The Italian Job, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday October 12th

John Lennon would have been 70 years old this October 9^th. It is therefore fitting that our prompt this week is the opening line of one of his songs, Beautiful Boy.

Close your eyes, have no 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 hear Beautiful Boy and read the lyrics, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday October 5th

 Our prompt this week is the first

few words of a Shakespeare sonnet.

Where art thou Muse....?

 Feel free to use the prompt loosely, changing it into modern English if you so wish

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

For the complete work plus Shakespeare’s best known sonnet,  visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday September 28th

 Our prompt this week is the first two lines from Regina Spektor’s delightful song The Call

It started out as a feeling
which then grew into a hope

 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 lyrics and listen to The Call (plus a couple of other of her fascinating songs) visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday September 21st

 Our prompt this week is the first words from H G Wells 1898 novel, War of the Worlds

No one would have believed...'

 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 first chapter of War of the Worlds and hear Richard Burton reading an abridged version , visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday September 14th

This week our prompt is the first line of the traditional folk song One Misty Moisty Morning recorded by Steeleye Span in 1973

One misty moisty morning.....'

 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 lyrics of One Misty Moisty Morning and hear a live recording, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday September7th

This week our prompt is the first words of Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ first published in 1884

'You don’t know about me.....'

 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

For a synopsis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and to read the first few paragraphs visit  Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday August 31st

This week our prompt is

the first words of Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s song Something Stupid

 “I know I stand in line......”

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 lyrics and hear Sinatra sing Something Stupid visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday August 24th

This week our prompt is

the last words spoken by Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902)

 "So little done, so much to do."

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 lots more famous last words from Elvis to Beethoven, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

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Your prompt for Tuesday August 17th

This week our prompt is

the first few words of Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch 22

It was love at first sight

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 Joseph Heller and Catch 22 visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS

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Your prompt for Tuesday August 10th

This week our prompt is the opening line of the song Blessed written by Travon Potts and Brock Walsh

When I think how life used 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 lyrics of Blessed and listen to it sung by Christina Aguilera visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS

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Your prompt for Tuesday August 3rd

This week our prompt is the opening line of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s poem Uphill

Does the road wind uphill all the way?

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 Uphill visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS

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Your prompt for Tuesday July 27th

This week our prompt is a quote from the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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 quotes from Kahlil Gibran visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS

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Your prompt for Tuesday July 20th

This week our prompt is the first line of the 2008 novel 
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

Lightning first, then the thunder. And in between the two........

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 Invention of Everything Else, visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS

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Your prompt for Tuesday July 13th

This week our prompt is the first line of the

Freddie Mercury song Barcelona

I had a perfect dream

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 see a live recording of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe performing Barcelona, and read the lyrics, visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS  

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Your prompt for Tuesday July 6th

This week our prompt is the first line of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

If I should die think only this of me

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

Next week I will be in ‘some corner of a foreign field’ myself so it’s just possible that COT may not appear on Saturday. I’ll be at the mercy of the Greek internet! I am however hopeful that I’ll manage to get it posted, so please look in as usual! Keith

To read The Soldier and learn a little about Rupert Brooke visit Carry on Tuesday PLUS  

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Your prompt for Tuesday 29th

This week our prompt is from the first line of The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger 1951

'If you really want to hear about it........'

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 Catcher in the Rye click HERE

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Your prompt for Tuesday 22nd

This week our prompt is the first words spoken in the 1959 Billy Wilder movie Some Like it Hot

"Well, nobody’s perfect”

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 Some Like it Hot, and see the original trailer click HERE

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Your prompt for Tuesday 15th

This week our prompt is the title and opening line of a William Butler Yeats’s poem

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

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 poem and learn more about William Butler Yeats click HERE

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Your prompt for Tuesday June 8th

This week our prompt is the opening words from Salman Rushdie’s book The Enchantress of Florence

"In the day’s last light......" 

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 Salman Rushdie and The Enchantress of Florence click HERE

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Your prompt for Tuesday June 1st


This week our prompt is

A quote from the author Tom Robbins

"It is never too late to have a happy childhood"

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 Tom Robbins and sample some of his other quotes go to - 
http://carryontuesdayplus.blogspot.com

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Your prompt for Tuesday May 25th

This week our prompt is the opening line from the Bee Gee’s song My World

'Don’t shed a tear for me'

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 lyrics and watch a video of the Bee Gees singing My World click HERE