LBI Poets Studio

Whether you are an accomplished poet or a new one, our monthly workshop will inspire you. To attend this event virtually 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 on Zoom. You may also join the program in-person at the LBI Library in the meeting room each month.

Our Prompt for July is to write a poem using a word, phrase, or line from Mary Oliver's Poem, Morning Glories.

Morning Glories 

by Mary Oliver

Blue and dark-blue
rose and deepest rose
white and pink they 

are everywhere in the diligent 
cornfield rising and swaying 
in their reliable

finery in the little
fling of their bodies their 
gear and tackle 

all caught up in the cornstalks. 
The reaper's story is the story 
of endless work of 

work careful and heavy but the 
reaper cannot 
separate them out there they 

are in the story of his life 
bright random useless
year after year 

taken with the serious tons 
weeds without value 
humorous beautiful weeds.

As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words selected at random from Niall William's novel, Boy and Man.

kite, danced, unspooled, wind, colours, hill, thereabouts, serene, orchestra, sky, grace, tight, conductor, sharply, drunkenly, wave, sail, tug, yellow, whiskey, tenuous, exit, David Copperfield, coma, tricks, hunger, angle, twenty-three, fair-haired, Ethiopia, glue, jigsaw, machines, pine, parallel, foothills, dipped, horse, louder, tangle, entirety, steam, headlights, sensitivity, solo, cloth, dimension, plaster, protruded, drapery, ghosts, two-note song, nettles, curve, bustle, webs, tower, torrid, sporadically, knees, destiny, repack, splash, coarse, metal, khaki, bearded, tilted, oil, confess, eyebrows, connection, collage, pinnacle, proof, swim, edge, foolish, deliberate, random, sixteen, autobahn, cropped, confluence, arc, erratic, preamble

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