Hello friends, writers and poets. 

Björn here, trying to inspire you to write prose. It is always hard to find a good line to embed in a piece of prose, but after looking around this line caught my attention:

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes

from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot.

This is actually the first professionally published poem by T.S. Eliot in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. The poem, described as a “drama of literary anguish”, is a dramatic interior monologue of an urban man stricken with feelings of isolation and an incapability for decisive action.

Thomas Stearns Elliot was born in S:t Louis Missouri 1888 he became one of the pioneers of British modern poetry after he moved to Oxford in 1914. At the beginning his poetry was considered “outlandish”, and he also faced some resistance from being an American, but he settled and in 1927 he renounced his US citizenship and became a British citizen

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947 and died in Kensington on 4 January 1965.

To write a contribution you will have to incorporate the given line into a piece of prose of no longer than 144 words (including the given line but excluding the title). You may punctuate and divide the line as you want, but you cannot insert any words into the line.

When you have written your prose to your blog, linking back to dVerse, you enter a link to your entry in Mr. Linky below. 

There you will also find all the other entries, so remember to read (and comment) on the other entries. You can also leave a comment below and potentially take part of the discussion.