Carry On Tuesday # 57

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

Carry On Tuesday # 56

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

Carry On Tuesday # 55

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

Carry On Tuesday # 54

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

Carry On Tuesday # 53

Your prompt for Tuesday May 18th

This week our prompt is a special one to set the tone for our first birthday here at Carry On Tuesday. Translated from Latin, it’s from good old Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC)!

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. 

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 bit about Plautus and see more of his quotes click HERE 

Carry On Tuesday # 52

Your prompt for Tuesday May 11th

This week our prompt is an old Danish proverb

The road to a friend's house is never long

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 proverbs about friendship click HERE

Carry On Tuesday # 51

Your prompt for Tuesday May 4th

This week our prompt is quote from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad, 1917

’Only the young have such moments’

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 novel and its author click HERE