Carry On Tuesday # 62

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

Carry On Tuesday # 61

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  

Carry On Tuesday # 60

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  

Carry On Tuesday # 59

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

Carry On Tuesday #58

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

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