Whether you are an accomplished poet or a new one, our monthly workshop will inspire you. To attend this virtual event please contact Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net.
This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You may also join the program in-person at the LBI Library in the meeting room each month.
Our Prompt for December is to write a poem that takes as its subject things that don't add up.
Here's a wee bit of inspiration:
CRIBBAGE LESSONS
by Susan Johnson
The summer Dad decided it was time
I learned crib, counting fifteen two,
fifteen four, I loved doing the sums
in my head, tallying up the pairs,
runs, as if life were arithmetic,
which at six it was. Going into
second grade, the owner of three
hand-me-down bathing suits from
one sister, two cousins, I went
swimming five times a day and at
the general store one mile away,
bought a dime’s worth of penny
candy from a woman who had to
be a hundred. In four years mom
would have her mastectomy; in ten
she’d be dead. We didn’t know any
of that then. Just that it all adds up
until it doesn’t. Then you’re skunked.
—from Rattle #85, Fall 2024
As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words selected at random from Alice McDermott's novel, After This.
radiating, framework, siblings, 1960's, underpin, charming, brotherly, strap, doddering, bloodshot, mop, odd, red-rimmed, lock, flesh, waist, Fishkill, Denmark, upright, elope, yellowed, indecorous, drumming, doffing, peas, dainty, tight, strap, pregnancy, commiserating, flutter, flashlight, unhinged, crumbs, blithely, clucked, couch, T-shirt, parable, Christmas, rigorous, parishioners, garner, forefinger, thick, impromptu, heels, hitched, khaki, sinewy, exaggerated, dime, clink, mustard, reciting, flagpole, portrait, certificate, subway, skinny, Jim Croce, Halloween, sleeve, beer, middling, mutt, chuckles, locker, nun, skirts, illusionist
squint, granite, shapeless, breather, hallway, scoured
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