Carry on Tuesday # 149

This week  I've taken the first few words of Robert Louis Stevenson's sweet poem My Shadow as our inspiration

I have a little shadow

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Carry On Tuesday # 148 Saturday 10th March

This week we have the title and first line of Merle Haggard's country song 

Life's like Poetry

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Carry On Tuesday # 147 Saturday March 3rd

This week we have the opening line and title of a love poem by Courtney Kuchta

If I could have just one wish

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Carry On Tuesday ~ 146 / Saturday February 25th

This week we have as our inspiration the first line of a song from the wonderful musical Les Miserables

Drink with me to days gone by

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Carry On Tuesday # 145

In 1936 W.H. Auden wrote a short poem which was to become known as Funeral Blues. Some 70 years later it reduced millions of people, me included, to tears when it featured in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral. Our prompt this week is its first line

Stop all the clocks

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Carry On Tuesday # 144

The opening lines of Angel by Sarah McLachlan provide us with our prompt this week.

Spend all your time waiting

for that second chance

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Carry On Tuesday # 143

I came across a poem called In the Park by John Koethe and I thought that the first few words would provide us with a perfect prompt for this week's challenge.

This is the life I wanted, and I could never see

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