Write the Second Line

Let's play a game..

from JoeUser Forums
This is a game of poetry. Basically, the first person takes any first line of a poem, and the second person has to finish it with a line corresponding in rhyme, measure, and sense with it. Humor is optional, but definitely wanted.

An example:
There is a garden is her face;

A silly second line would be,

Her dermatologist has the case.

Anyway, post a finisher to the line ahead, and post a new line for the next player.

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife"

Let those creative juices flow!

(Game idea and example taken from The Game of Words, Willard R. Espy
poetry
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife"

I lived with but one, and that one was my wife.

I loved another, and she but me

(and boy I am bad, but this is fiun!)

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I loved another, and she but me,
My wife's favorite number isn't three.


Next!

"My love is like to ice, and I to fire"
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
"My love is like to ice, and I to fire"


So says HE, but He's a liar!!

Next,

"Love is light and lifts the soul"
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Love is light and lifts the soul"

All this romance has taken it's toll.

What do I do? Where do I begin?
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
~~What do I do? Where do I begin?~~

Do I go back to doing the same old thing again?

Next:

Let me be the first to let you know...
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Let me be the first to let you know
Whatever you "rip" is what you will "sew."


"To be or not to be, that is the question!"
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
"To be or not to be, that is the question!"

O eternal query, can't we have a fresh one?

Now in the suburbs and the falling light
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Now in the suburbs and the falling light


Little children play with all their might.

Back in the country where the deer roam free
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Back in the country where the deer roam free


they're not preoccupied with poetry.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood


One went one way, the other still it stood

I chose the wandering one, no hurry was I
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
---I chose the wandering one, no hurry was I---

Then I chose the pondering one, don't know why.


As they looked they both had smiles
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
As they looked they both had smiles,
I think they were crocodiles.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It would take more than seconds, minutes, hours, or days...

Next:

"Do not go gentle into that good night,"
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Do not go gentle into that good night,
the monsters there are an awful fright!

"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow,"
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow,"

It was stolen by a crackhead who thought it's fleece was blow.


"I once had an incredible thought"