Thread: The new challenge Friday 30th Oct

Congratulations to Foxee for winning our last challenge. When I contacted her for a subject for our new challenge she suggested that we revive the first line challenge. For those of you who were not here we take the first line of a poem and invite you to continue it in your own words. She suggested:-

the first line from Robert Frost's In a Disused Graveyard:
The living come with grassy tread.

It does not have to be about a graveyard, of course, simply start with that line, best of luck every one, and may the muse be with you.

“ ‘The living come with grassy tread,’
is quite impossible,” he said.
“ ‘The living tread in grassy come.’
Now that will make the censors numb.”

The living come with grassy tread
Messy, screwed up filled with dread
To yearn for meaning, hope anew
Tomorrow dawns with rosy dew
I shall not walk in the valley of shadows
Reborn; debt i shant repay, fearing dark
Craving the bejeweled and thorny crown
Beloved task master tread not so harshly
On the comely living

The living come with grassy tread-
Wheels of hay tight interlaced.
The dead arrive on tires of wire
Scraping soil from the stone.
The course is set, trees displaced
A fearsome flag flung over head.
Race is run, birds and angels choir
As the winner loses by ending alone.

The living come with grassy tread
take one more step
and you'll be dead


if you upon
my clean floor spread
filth
from yonder potting shed


this is what my mama said
before she whacked me
on my head

Originally Posted by Gumby

The living come with grassy tread
take one more step
and you'll be dead


if you upon
my clean floor spread
filth
from yonder potting shed


this is what my mama said
before she hit me
on my head

I think we've been here before:

I told you before, not a potting shed, those are national beehives, look at all the bees at the entrance of the one nearest.

Any how, no more poems in the contest, I have added a poll at the top of the thread for you to vote for favourites.

Please feel free to comment on the poems as you might in the poetry thread, I am sure the authors appreciate it.

Absolutely adorable, Gumby!

Dumbo here forgot to put a time limit on the poll and can't find out how to shut it, so don't vote any more, it won't count.