This prompt has steps, and you have to do them in order. Don’t look ahead to the next step before completing the previous one.
1. Grab a book off a shelf at random.
2. Read the first line of the book and the last line of the book.
3. Pick one of them.
4. You have to use every single word in this line in a poem. Those words can be used at any point in the poem.
Ha. For anyone who has read “The Mime Order” by Samantha Shannon, you know I’ve got this soooooo easy…well…maybe… 😉
can they be used multiple times? or can the whole line be used a couple of times?
It does look like I am a half marathoner! I think that’s what I registered to do. Just very tired and won’t hold up. Blessings. Hope to read more later and perk up.
For Prompt 12, my line is “It’s rare that a story begins at the beginning.” (and I’m not sure I did it totally right, but…this was kinda fun and silly)
Martini Splash
By Sandy Lender
Amid the laughter and clanking of glasses
Over the jazz, but under the radar of my BFF,
Aqua Velva touches my arm like he knows me.
Just my luck,
Mr. Touchy is one of those rare gents who thinks the words
“no, thank you”
mean “at least buy me a drink.”
Like I’m gonna take a drink from a stranger.
A drink that has a darker color than his own.
Stay six feet back, buddy,
Or I’ll drop this mask and sneeze directly on you.
(And your martini-of-questionable-hue.)
The over-cologner says “that’s not a nice beginning to our story.”
I tell him it’s how “our” story begins, middles, and ends.
Saved by my BFF’s return,
Mr. Touchy preps to turn away,
But I can’t (with good conscience) let him take his suspect cocktail into the buzzing crowd.
Oopsadaisy! My mistake!
Well, that’ll just cover that 1970’s aftershave, won’t it?