
Carol Anne’s prompt guidelines
This week’s challenge is to write a blitz poem! Here’s how it works:
- Line 1: one short phrase or image (example: build a boat)
- Line 2: another short phrase or image, starting with the same first word as line 1 (build a house)
- Lines 3 & 4: each begin with the last word of line 2 (house for sale, house for rent)
- Lines 5 & 6: each begin with the last word of line 4, and so on — keep repeating this pattern until line 48
- Line 49: just the last word of line 48
- Line 50: just the last word of line 47
- Title: three words long, in the format (first word of line 3) (preposition or conjunction) (first word of line 47)
- No punctuation
Memory and Judgement
Building an empire
Building a memory
Memory journal
Memory forgotten
Forgotten dreams
Forgotten hope
Hope to succeed
Hope for more
More than enough
More for later
Later tonight
Later than never
Never forget
Never never land
Land of the lost
Land the airplane
Airplane food
Airplane ticket
Ticket booth
Ticket to ride
Ride to the store
Ride in my car
Car wash
Car for sale
Sale of the century
Sale price
Price for eggs
Price is right
Right or wrong
Right or left
Left to die
Left for later
Later tonight
Later alligator
Alligator pocketbook
Alligator alley
Alley cat
Alley way
Way back
Way to go
Go ahead
Go for broke
Broke girls
Broke and poor
Poor baby
Poor judgement
Judgement day
Judgement free zone
Zone
Day
©2025 CBialczak

I like the way your blitz weaves from “memory journal” to “poor judgement” and back around again! Christine, it feels like a full circle of thoughts spiraling into each other, with a nice rhythm to the flow. ❤
~David
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Thank you
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*hug*
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Nicely done! It’s interesting how the title draws it all together.
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I found that intriguing too!
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Nicely done 🙌🏻
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Thanks
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A wonderful Blitz!
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It’s a good title, and isn’t it something how titles just happens with this form. Your poem shows how abstract things, like memory and judgement, can both work with and against each other. Way to go!
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I was surprised as well how all of the titles fit so well
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Christine I love how this feels like a stream of consciousness ❤️
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maybe that is why I like them…they just flow
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So clever!
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Very nicely done
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