This week marks Jane Austen’s 240th birthday. You can read about her and an archive of her books on her official web site. I thought it would be fun to do a wordle in honor of one of the most famous lines in literature:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
This the first line of Pride and Prejudice. Let’s write a poem using those lines:
fortune
prejudice
acknowledged
want
trust
pride
possession
good
wife
man
single
There are 11 words and I challenge you to use at least 7 of them. I hope these words bring you inspiration and something new comes forth. I’d love for you to share. Either post your link in the comments or backlink your post to this one. Is December treating you well? I hope so. I look forward to your poems!
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The Reverie 
This sounds like fun. I shall put my thinking cap on tonight!
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That was fun….I got 10 words in. My post will go up tomorrow morning. 🙂
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[…] The Reverie posted an interesting challenge in honor of Jane Austen. We are given 11 words (in true Austen style) and asked to write a poem with at least 7 of them. It got in 10. Check out the challenge and give it a try. […]
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A Sussex Cry
Anst upon a time fate liquefied in a single reigning moon goddess
And with a lithe touch she descends upon a man
To be his unholy wife and cog and nurt him
At every twilight, beyond the mortal fortunes of eternity
In appleterre’s heart
The thirteen heavens acknowledge their amost good deeds
Concealing their clogue fabled in verses, pride and trust
The cobbling Chaos enshrouds their nothingness
Blessing them with rather bettermost of vices and prejudices
To be enacted all-on and amakin.
In a single timmersome verse,
Written anewst the allus,
This man’s quill abroad and anywhen:
“Bide whist! To one and all I want to say
I cry possession of the goddess moon that cropped
While I was a-bed!
The crownation will take place wunst in the weald
And will be carried out by their Heathen Holiness
The vady crust-hungry kisses!”
©18 December 2015 Vlad Teodor Petcu @ Visele unui insomniac
http://viseleunuiinsomniac.blogspot.ro/2015/12/a-sussex-cry.html
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