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!

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Carry On Christmas

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

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Carry On Tuesday # 83

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.

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Carry On Tuesday # 82

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.

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