Poetry Thread Game (somewhat like movie line game . . .)

[bertha katzenengel]

Someone posts a line of a poem -- one line from any poem that most people know.

You reply to that line with a line from a different familiar poem.

That's it. No guessing who the poet is or the name of the poem.

Example:

I post

A rock, a river, a tree

you reply with

I took the one less traveled by

~~~~~~~~~~

Too dull? Try

There once was a girl from Nantucket

to which comes the reply

I do not like green eggs and ham!

~~~~~~~~~

????

:shrug:

It'll live or die on its own; I'm going to start it off and then I'm going to bed. 'Night, all.

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

[Mutley]

2. In me thou seest the twilight of such day.

As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.

[Random_Australian]

3. No. n/t

[otherlander]

4. CAUGHT in that ancient, endless chain!

of profit, power greed!
of grab the land! of grab the gold!
of grab the ways of satisfying need!
of work the men, of take the pay,
of owning everything for one's own greed!

[Mutley]

5. In me thou seest the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereupon expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.

[trackfan]

6. leaping higher, higher higher

with a desperate desire
and a resolute endeavor
now, now to sit, or never,
by the side of the pale-faced moon.

[Aristus]

7. Oh swear not by the moon, th'inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in its circled orb.