I can relate maryann - the many and various possible opening lines that lead
us into lord only knows where or what to let a poem take shape. Even
lunching nekkid for the sake of verse.


Also noted that every word or few words or line is a potential opener,
nothing is safe, nothing is exempt.

Cheers,

Frank

>~*~
>
>Lunch In The Nude
>
>
>In the time it's taken to open
>my eyes, a dozen first-lines
>have come and gone. I'm spent -
>we're spent, you're snoring,
>from mid-night
>stoking, stroking and poking
>which is another unfit intro-line
>demoted to center page
>only slightly above;
>
>as the sun beats down upon my face
>because in fact, there is no sun today.
>I believe that line is an after-affect
>from the influence of Led Zeppelin's
>Kashmir rhythm. It is overcast.
>
>I sit in dry-skin nudeness
>on a warm veranda with orange slices,
>almond granola, and sweetened tea
>scrappling with first lines
>that aren't fit
>to open my eyes,
>said the Poet
>
>reaching for the rum,
>which is a far better line
>to begin with
>and definitely improves
>the tea - let's see:
>
>Reaching for the rum
>I sit in dry-skin nudeness
>as the sun beats down upon my face.
>In the time it's taken to open
>my eyes, a dozen first-lines
>have come and gone,
>and I'm spent,
>said the Poet.
>
>There is no sun today
>but there's a first line
>and that's a damn fine title too.
>
>~*~
>
>Cheerwell, Mary :O)
>
>
>
>=====
>Good Cheer & Be Well,
>Maryann Hazen-Stearns
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