Dear Readers,
Honestly, how many of you have read Shakespeare? You don’t need to be embarrassed or lie and pretend. We’ve barely read Shakespeare ourselves! We keep meaning to but… well, we never seem to find the time. Sad but true.
Tati could say, “To be or not to be…” with a nerdy look, but if you asked her to continue, she’d probably mess up the next line. And Tony… well, Tony loves skulls and drama but that wouldn’t make him the next Prince of Denmark. All he’d be able to utter is, “Verily!” Pathetic really.
So, when all’s said and done, it’s a good thing we’re not writing Shakespeare. No, we’re simply writing a little poem with the help of our Dear Readers. That’s what we’re doing! And we do love that you make us giddy with the excitement of creating.
By the way, a big thank you goes to Fraggle for the next line! Fraggle, our dearest and faithful friend, you rock! Yes, we’re trying to be impartial here but we have to admit that we liked your contribution best. Oh, and why did you make us read about Lady Ophelia? Poor girl! She had a rough trot, didn’t she!
It’s clear that no one informed Ophelia of the rules to this poetry-making game. Let us remind you, Dear Readers, so that you don’t meet a similar fate…
1) We provide the next line of the poem.
2) You write the following line.
3) You submit your line via the comments section of this very post.
4) We pick the line we like most and add it to the poem.
5) We publish every line to date in a follow-up post.
6) Steps 1-5 are repeated until we have a masterpiece!
Please, Dear Readers, pretty please (with a cherry on top), let’s have a happy ending for this poem? Failing that, let’s at least screw Hamlet the fuck up and make a Disney musical from it!
She looks in the book like into a mirror
The face of her sister is there
She wears daffodils in her hair
She reminds her of Shakespeare’s Ophelia
Amid weeping willows along the shore
by TETIANA ALEKSINA, TONY SINGLE, THOM TNKERR & FRAGGLE
© All rights reserved 2018
unbolt me 
She looks deeply at it, oh what a sore
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Ha! Awesome contribution, Tanushka! Thank you!
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The poem’s lovely.
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I have not read Shakespeare, how was it if you did?
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I have only read Macbeth, and this was in high school. I really don’t remember much about it at all, truth be told. 😛
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Othello’s ghost bids, “Read more!”
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Ha! I like that, Alexandra. Thank you!
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Her sand-stained journey, in ink, to share.
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Ooh! Nice one! Thank you, Gill!
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Thank you. It was a lovely post from you. I also don’t remember much Shakespeare, but I bet he liked a good paddle in the sea! 😀
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Who wouldn’t, right? 😛
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she whispers, “nevermore”, because one is only a victim if they choose to never rise. her heart beats with newfound fire in her eyes.
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Oh my! Are you another lover of Poe? Please say it’s so! 😛
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Cool! This is very Renga… a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry ie poetry written by more than one author working together, loved specifically by the samurai class. Sorry for messing up your comments section with a non poetry type line. Feel free to delete.
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Thank you for educating me! I now know a little something about Renga, so your comment was absolutely very relevant. Thank you! 😀
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I submit a reference to Poe for your consideration:
Both of the girls scowl and say, “Nevermore,” “Nevermore”
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A Poe lover, eh? You quite simply ROCK. 😉
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Or the lonely lover in this old song Cecilia
Drowned by sadness, wrecked on the floor
(Just to try to forget Shakepeare. AL)
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Well, I never quite understood Shakespeare to begin with, so the forgetting won’t be hard. 😛
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She was waiting to be taken to the gallows pole.
Sorry. I know you wanted a happy ending; but I thought this felt like a sad, somber poem right from the first line.
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No, that seems like a legit place to take it. Hee hee! 😛
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“Her mascara made her look like a whore.”
Sorry, but….SHORE! ????
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Hee hee hee! 😛
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