Reena’s Exploration Challenge #108 – Known Them All

Poetry Week!!

Reena’s task this week – choose any one line out of the seven given here, and use it as the first line for your piece.

“For I have known them all already, known them all:”

From: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot

I’ve been here before you know.

Strange as it may seem, but we all have. Most of us choose not to remember, but I am blessed or cursed, depending on your point of view.

Our brains are amazing organs. They can pick and choose what to believe, how to act, and what to recall. I vividly recall two past lives. Not everything but enough to make me believe I was once there. They are both caught up in war. In World War One I was in the trenches on the western front, I can still smell the mud, the blood and the…