The Haunted Wordsmith’s prompt is to pick up the nearest book and turn to page 62, line 6 and use that line in a story. The book I picked up was Veils, Halos and Shackles and this is the line: “. . . .each night passing through a boundary.”
The Good Wife
Each night passing through a boundary, every morning coming home.
Pinned to the day’s agenda with no free time for her to roam
the streets of her imagination, gathering images she’d share
in all the stories she would write if she had the time and nerve to dare.
What would they think if they knew where she journeyed during dreaming time?
Would the other wives revile her or tell their husband of her crime?
The lush banks of imagination where she went barefoot and unveiled
and did the things that in the real world would cause her to be shunned or jailed
were her reward for time in harness, being that person they expected.
Veiled and cloistered and obedient. Qualities they all respected.
But in her dreams she lived the wild world—unfettered, uncensored and free.
It was the only place in her life that she labeled herself “me.”
In that world that wasn’t her world—that place where she was forced to be—
She existed as observer, watching a self she labeled “she.”
She kept her true self safely hidden. Kept her opinions to herself.
All her precious thoughts and talents neatly stacked upon the shelf
waiting for her nightly visits when she could take them down and play
until the early morning sunlight drew her, regrettably, to day.
https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/page-62-line-6/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
What an interesting challenge and lovely response!
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Thanks, writer!
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Very nice!
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I thought this is a great way to get ideas to write a poem, short story, different genres, everything related to this art of writing.
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I agree, Charly.
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Interesting challenge, but mostly I am greatly impressed by your poem, Judy. This is serious stuff!
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Thanks, Dollly. The theme of that international anthology was the subjugation and empowerment of women and I had a poem in it, but this line was from someone else’s poem.
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I’d be interested to read your poem from that anthology. I gathered that it was the theme, of course.
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Dolly, I have emailed it to you.
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And I have read and responded, with tears.
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Yes, I saw your email.. xo
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