LBI Poets Studio - ZOOM ONLY

In-person session at the library has been canceled. Poets Studio will still be held on Zoom.

To attend this virtual event please contact Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net. This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1 pm - 3 pm. In-person session at the library has been canceled.

Our Prompt for August is to write about a poem about a  "Road Trip"  (real or fictional).

Here's a wee bit of inspiration:

The Roads Taken

by Barbara Kynett

The winds blew, prodigiously, out of K.C.,

and leaving behind the blufflands,

the overgrown ruts of westering wagons,
the last of the long grass,

somewhere past the Leavenworth turn

they blew on the tail of the Plymouth coupe

till it flew like a prairie bird,

earthbound, but seeming to skim

the cambered stretches of macadam,
the empty length of open highway.

Ballast was light. In back, tools,

a can of gas,

a briefcase of order forms,
some GE tracts,

a salesman's bible of pitches,

and one change of clothes
in a brown valise.

Straight out of Canada,
pitching at the Rockies,

they blew the whirring Plymouth and him,

with a hint in them, like fate,

of something darker than the end
of an Autumn day.

Riding and pushing his rear,

racing the Santa Fe past Ellsworth, past Bunker Hill,

into that one prairie town—
a homing pigeon,

beak marked by countless mason jars,
smelling camaraderie

and the sweet absolution of bootleg Scotch—
toward the coming lights

As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words chosen at random from Drew Gilpin Faust's book, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism.

Louisiana, sliding, mock, dynamic, hair, sheet music, nightingales, bread, quick, advice, transcendent, stacked, dispassionate, divine, preponderance, embroil, synonymous, perils, appear, spurious, valuate, mystical, sage, strike, spirit, catechism, quickstep, Tupelo, relearn, challenge, express, insist, assume, force, odium, soothe, Jewish, cry, complain, pull, platonic, notion, legal, avert, bold, ill-equipped, cement, reciprocity, metaphor, cautious, argue, change, path, variety, traveling, Caribbean islands, narrowing, chorus, insulated, word, divine, pinnacle

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