Saturday, June 06, 2009

Carry On Tuesday #4

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Your prompt for Tuesday June 9
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Welcome to Carry On Tuesday. Our prompt this week is the opening words of the 1990 novel by A.S.Byatt entitled Possession. It was produced as a film in 2002 which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart.
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The book was thick and black and covered with dust. Its boards were bowed and creaking
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Use all or part of it at the start or somewhere within your poem or prose. Then leave the url of your post (not of your blog) in a comment
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* I have had to delete the Mister Linky box as it was causing the entire site to run slowly. Links that made it to Mister Linky before it went pear shaped are now showing as comments. Young Linky has a lot to answer for!

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22 comments:

  1. Americanising Desi7 June 2009 at 01:04

    thank you for the invite :)
    surely will carry on with it!

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  2. cyclopseven7 June 2009 at 11:12

    I have left my footprints again..checkout guys.

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  3. missy8 June 2009 at 08:52

    http://themeltingpotofthisandthat.blogspot.com/2009/06/house-on-edge-of-town.html

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  4. Jeaves8 June 2009 at 08:54

    http://poemsotherwise.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-was-thick-and-black-and-covered_06.html

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  5. Steve8 June 2009 at 08:56

    http://whitesnake45.blogspot.com/2009/06/carry-on-tuesday_07.html

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  6. xegbp8 June 2009 at 09:10

    http://poetryfromxegbp.blogspot.com/2009/06/book.html

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  7. Cyclopseven8 June 2009 at 09:17

    http://nityajeevi.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-of-horror.html

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  8. Anthony North8 June 2009 at 09:21

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/tony-on-modern-art/

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  9. Rinkly Rimes8 June 2009 at 09:38

    What a good idea!


    http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/06/language-barrier.html

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  10. jabblog8 June 2009 at 14:33

    Ermmm - is this where I should be? Whatever, I've enjoyed the challenge and hope others have, too.

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  11. Marja8 June 2009 at 17:20

    http://dutchcorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/book.html A story this time

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  12. KB8 June 2009 at 19:56

    Mine's up

    http://krazyblonde-kb.blogspot.com/2009/06/carry-on-tuesday-4.html

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  13. George S Batty8 June 2009 at 20:42

    Old Grizz's dusty old book is now off the shelf and in the "Carry on Tuesday" bookstore.

    http://oldgrizz.blogspot.com/

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  14. Anonymous9 June 2009 at 07:59

    Great prompt
    http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-turning-wind/

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  15. keiths ramblings9 June 2009 at 13:54

    I hope you enjoy mine
    http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-of-secrets.html

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  16. Pam9 June 2009 at 13:58

    Here is the inspired result from this week's prompt:

    Paralysis

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  17. 2cats9 June 2009 at 18:48

    I don't know the difference between poetry and prose. I did look it up in the dictionary but that only served to confuse me even more. But, here is my contribution. I hope I did the link correct.

    http://trudystreasures-2cats.blogspot.com/CarryonTuesday

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  18. Dee Martin9 June 2009 at 19:36

    Combined two together - now maybe I can read everyone elses :)
    http://www.delenemartin.com/?p=871

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  19. quin browne9 June 2009 at 23:34

    http://quinbrowne-words.blogspot.com/2009/06/carry-on-tuesdayflash-fiction_10.html

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  20. Cassiopeia Rises10 June 2009 at 11:26

    Hope you like my new web page!

    http://belovedhaikudreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/cemetery-of-books.html


    love, Melanie-bd

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  21. lissa10 June 2009 at 20:21

    here's my take -
    the long search

    wasn't quite sure what "bowed" and had to look it up -sorry for being so late, this only came to me yesterday - still needs work...

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  22. Anya Padyam11 June 2009 at 05:24

    http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2009/06/final-act.html

    Just discovered 'Carry on Tuesday' - came over from Firmly Rooted. It is great; the prompts are really wonderful!

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