LBI Poets Studio

Whether you are an accomplished poet or a new one, wish to write or to hone a poem, our monthly workshop will inspire you.

To attend this virtual event please contact Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net. This group meets the1st 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 September is to write a poem that utilizes the line, "I prize the sweets of life", from Benjamin Franklin's poem, The Reverse.

The Reverse

by Benjamin Franklin (VII Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.)

Studious of Ease, and fond of humble Things,
Below the Smiles, below the Frowns of Kings:
Thanks to my Stars, I prize the Sweets of Life,
No sleepless Nights I count, no Days of Strife.
I rest, I wake, I drink, I sometimes love,
I read, I write, I settle, or I rove;
Content to live, content to die unknown,

Lord of myself, accountable to none.

As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words selected at random from Jane Smiley's novel, Early Warning.

thousand, quilt, crossroad, capture, San Francisco, anchor, self-defense, prima donna, jacket, sober, pigs-in-a-blanket, flop, blue crepe, porcelain, oyster, electricity, cherry, cellar, stack, Tanforan, intertwined, blizzard, cake, supply, trail, slurp, rummaged, billow, adrift, cultivate, triangle, foregone, clutch, leach, embargo, bourgeoisie, doorway, black, protocol, cajole, autobiography, picturesque, stage, blaze, seemingly, accelerator, denounce, wolfish, soda fountain, moonlight, flagstones, triangular, hike, nestle, indelible, historical, subversive, lock, candid, jiggled, precinct, eggs

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