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 October is to write a poem that utilizes this phrase "starting here, I want to remember"

Here's a wee bit of inspiration, a poem by William Stafford

You, Reading This, Be Ready

      by William Stafford

Starting here, what do you want to remember?

How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?

What scent of old wood hovers, what softened

sound from outside fills the air?

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world

than the breathing respect that you carry

wherever you go right now? Are you waiting

for time to show you some better thoughts?

When you turn around, starting here, lift this

new glimpse that you found; carry into evening

all that you want from this day. This interval you spent

reading or hearing this, keep it for life—

What can anyone give you greater than now,

starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?

As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words selected at random from Arthur Schopenhauer's book, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims

pleasure, purely, question, however, happy, complete, inexhaustible, compromise, treasure, fools, favour, blessings, ethereal, peep, parrots, swear, bag-piper, vinegar, card-playing, dilettante, thumbs, sleep, motives,  Pegasus, expansion, luxury, rascals, cringing, whit, secret, bowed, spectators, flesh, compliment, sprung, slight, fossilized, action, grasp, French, society, roomful, seldom, heaps, caprice, lament, fails, rule, allure, abstract, insult, blockheads, sympathy, Buddhist, light, fleeting, win, dog, five-sixths, shrewd, knave, aside, exist, class, grain, chief, suitable, folly, nay, fabulous, circulate, order, voyage, Mercury, love, old, astrology, trifles

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