Several different opening lines of novels, short stories, and essays are listed below. Choose one, and use this as the start of a poem. Create a poem that is at least 15 lines long. 1) All this happened, more or less. 2) My sister's voice was like mountain water in a silver pitcher. 3) It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. 4) My mother died at the moment I was born, so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity 5) Lightning, and a woman breaks in two. 6) I am a student of low-affect living edged with self-deprecating irony. 7) The gravel pit was about a mile east of town, and the size of a small lake, and so deep that boys under sixteen were forbidden by their parents to swim there.​