It was a dark and stormy night

Our group has just set a challenge for members. The task is to write a poem using those age old words 'It was a dark and stormy night'.

This is just for fun, and to test our skills - the poems written will be read out/handed around at the next meeting, which will be on 22 November. If you can come along to our meeting that will be fantastic! If you can't be at the meeting, it would be wonderful to be able to read out more poems for the challenge. 

So far, some members have accepted the challenge, how about you? Do you want to have a go too?

The meetings are held at the Prince Albert Hotel in Gawler, starting at 3.30 and going on for several more hours. The front bar is close to our meeting place, and there's food available later on. 

Now for the rules - the poem must use the words 'It was a dark and stormy night'. They can be used as they are there, or shifted around to make something quite different. Any style of poetry is allowed, rhyming or free verse, with a limit for the number of lines for the poem - let's say it must be between one and forty-one lines. 

There, that's it, you have until 3.30 22 November to get your poem in!
(If you can't get to the meeting, but would still like to take part, please send your poem to my email address, which is in the 'contact' section on this page.)

There may be a prize for the poem judged to be the best entry.