Carry On Tuesday # 121

Your prompt for Tuesday September 6^th

As soon as I arrived home from my holiday, an idiom came into my mind. This week’s prompt is….

Home is where the heart is

Use all or part of 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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Your prompt for Tuesday August 30^th

As I write this I’m sitting beside the River Nile in Luxor, Egypt. What better prompt this week than one about a river? This is the title and first line of such a poem by Jessie Lucas

Love is like a river

Use all or part of 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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Your prompt for Tuesday August 23rd

This week our prompt is from a song written in Italian – except for its title…

Time to say goodbye

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose then leave the url of your piece with Mister Linky. A comment would also be appreciated.

To listen to Time to Say Goodbye and read the lyrics in English as well as Italian,visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Tuesday # 118

Your prompt for Tuesday August 16th

This week I am quoting Mahatma Gandhi.  You may wish to use just the first five words – make from the prompt what you will!

An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.

Use all or part of 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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Your prompt for Tuesday August 9th

This week I am indulging myself with the opening line of Rupert Brooke's poem The Soldier in which he expresses movingly his love of England

If I should die, think only this of me

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose then leave the url of your piece with Mister Linky. A comment would also be appreciated.

To read The Soldier and listen to Elgar’s quintessentially English composition Nimrod from the Enigma Variations, visit Carry On Tuesday Plus

Carry On Tuesday # 116

Your prompt for Tuesday August 2nd 

This week our prompt is taken from the 1939 film Gone With the Wind. In the words of Scarlett O’Hara played by Vivien Leigh…

After all, tomorrow is another day

Use all or part of 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 Tuesday # 115

Your prompt for Tuesday July 26th

Just four hours before posting this weeks prompt, 27 year old singer songwriter Amy Winehouse passed away in her London home. I’ve taken a line from her song Valerie.

In my head I paint a picture

Use all or part of it within your poem or prose then leave the url of your piece with Mister Linky. A comment would also be appreciated.

To read the lyrics to Valerie and listen to her best known song Back To Black  visit Carry On Tuesday Plus