LBI Poet's Studio

Whether you are an accomplished poet or a new one, our monthly workshop will inspire you. To attend this virtual event 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 February is to write an original poem which could be the lyric of a song, OR a poem which takes " a song lyric, or song lyrics" as its subject.

The Aim Was Song

by Robert Frost

Before man came to blow it right

     The wind once blew itself untaught,

And did its loudest day and night

     In any rough place where it caught.

Man came to tell it what was wrong:

     It hadn’t found the place to blow;

It blew too hard—the aim was song.

     And listen—how it ought to go!

He took a little in his mouth,

     And held it long enough for north

To be converted into south,

     And then by measure blew it forth.

By measure. It was word and note,

     The wind the wind had meant to be—

A little through the lips and throat.

     The aim was song—the wind could see.

As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words chosen at random from a book written and illustrated by Joan Dunning, entitled, The Loon, Voice of the Wilderness.

deep, language, watercolors, marginal, savor, history, encounter, struggle, perspective, distant, inaccessible, wail, Yankee, mother, tiptoe, accuracy, light, hungry, childlike, feat, third, artifice, involvement, drama, crab, granite, intense, squatting, tucked, facet, polliwogs, neck, tundra, russet, common, urgency, gap, rationality, Shhh, stars, speckles, convey, triangles, tiger, level, geometry, fool, symbolic, peaceful, idle, shoes, strap-like, cove, yodel, flapping, beaver, destination, weeks, canoe, desire, tremolo, rippling, log, rush, shift, proximity, bold, defies, decaying, circle, foggy, backdrop, winter, mackerel, century, twenty-five, foster, meandering, speck, vocalizations, repertoire, deliberate, yodel, secretive

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