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AuntShecky
01-01-2008, 04:08 PM
In this poetry game, we'll provide the first line of a poem which you can complete.

Rules:
-- Your poem should be between 2-14 lines, including the first line provided.

--After this particular first line seems to have been exhausted, another LitNetter could contribute a different first line in a New Thread titled "Continue with this first line #2.

First line Number 1 is:

My needs are few

PrinceMyshkin
01-01-2008, 04:37 PM
My needs are few
but they are deep.
Those who have many needs
might not have ones as steep
as mine. I hold my needs
close, as close
as my achievements
As high as my highs.
so low are my lows.

PrinceMyshkin
01-01-2008, 04:38 PM
Do not rattle the cage of the resident bear

CdnReader
01-04-2008, 05:40 AM
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Do not rattle the cage of the resident bear
The noise hurts his ears, and renders
his mind into shattered bits of
anxiety and anger that can spill
out, overflow, in torrents
of uncaptured agony.

Do not rattle the cage of the resident bear
Lest he should rattle yours in return.

.

CdnReader
01-05-2008, 09:29 AM
I'm confused, Auntie. Are we to change the first line for every new poem?

Il Penseroso
01-11-2008, 07:24 PM
Do not rattle the cage of the resident bear,
nor scourge the beast shackled within your barlike breast.
Do not hide the bird lifting high as open thought
nor nail his shapely crimson tail to hills of dust.

Live free of violence, the scales of pain, remember
an animal feeds in the recesses of reason.



just in case I didn't do this right, here's another line:



Shake wind from fingertips numbed to the bone

jon1jt
01-11-2008, 07:44 PM
I'll play, but I'm confused...help me out Aunty.

AimusSage
01-11-2008, 08:02 PM
Shake wind from fingertips numbed to the bone.
The tingling witches that heat the skin
under the touch of warm bristling fires.
Vicarious illusion, still out in the cold
Water rest frozen in a thirsty mouth
X marks the spot of the nuclear plant
Yearning for that big explosion
Zero hours remain in this one attempt
Amids the frozen tundra of Siberia.
Breathe and try again.


There you have it, or at least, if I understand correctly, as all of the above mentioned.

Anyway, here is what I thought of as a new line:

'Sprinkle the rays of the sun'

AuntShecky
01-11-2008, 10:11 PM
I thought someone could provide a first line that would generate multiple pieces using it; then, later, when that first line was exhausted, someone could contribute a second thread with a different first line for others to finish, and so on.

balehead
09-28-2009, 09:16 PM
Sprinkle the Rays of the Sun
Over his life.
Give them an ethereal feeling –
Of peace and contentedness.
Assure that he never wants for anything;
Nor frowns, but laughs and is merry.
For I am leaving to a foreign land,
Which he cannot follow me to.

Pendragon
10-17-2009, 09:11 AM
Sprinkle the Rays of the Sun
Over his life.
Give them an ethereal feeling –
Of peace and contentedness.
Assure that he never wants for anything;
Nor frowns, but laughs and is merry.
For I am leaving to a foreign land,
Which he cannot follow me to.

And the next first line, Bale?

snape
10-19-2009, 02:13 AM
Sprinkle the rays of sun,
Upon thy night.
To make thy darkest night,
Of thy darkest times.
shimmer with thy holy light.

I make thy dull dark night,
shine with bright light.
To keep those hooded figures at bay,
and cower unto thy night.

I hope as an eleven year old, that you think my poem is alright.

The next line is -

If only I knew why?