LBI Poet's Studio

Accomplished and emerging poets alike can find inspiration in our Zoom workshop. To attend this virtual event contact Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net to receive the Zoom link.

This group meets the 1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. You may either join the Zoom event at the LBI Library in the meeting room using our laptops, or you can join from home using your own computer/laptop.

Our Prompt for August is to write a poem that uses a word, a phrase, or line from this 1863 poem by Emily Dickinson.
 

I reckon - when I count At all -
First - Poets - Then the Sun -
Then Summer - Then the Heaven of God -
And then - the List is done-
 
But - looking back -
the First so seems
To Comprehend the Whole -
The Others look a needless Show -
So I write - Poets - All -
Their Summer - lasts a Solid
Year -
They can afford a Sun
The East - would deem
Extravagant -
And if the Further Heaven -

Be Beautiful as they prepare
For Those who worship Them -
It is too difficult a Grace -
To justify the Dream -

 
As a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words chosen at random from Jane Smiley's novel, Duplicate Keys.
 
anatomy, bittersweet, duplicate, suitcase, trainee, cop, implication, honey, firmament, half-page, photographer, gawker, speculation, joke, clean, lens, deftly, bedroom, yellow, windows, wildflowers, warm, cabinets, blessings, doorknob, bounced, avoid, toast, sleep, animation, disbelief, cleanup, joke, wisdom, wailing, vivid, peppers, Rochester, vermilion, slid, eaten, cab, fragment, mention, Waldorf, dovetailed, knitted, cards, briskly, refuse, juice, orange, ammonia, translucent, upholstery, stuff, questions, unplugged, satiny, chestnuts, sober, sidewalk, nine-thirty, passers-by, coffee, library, bumping, cavernous, wallet, anomalous, stacks, detective, red stain, twilight, robins, grin, weeds, Park Slope, osmosis, pruned, promenade, gloves, grimace, justice, tears, deal, college, comb, forearms, overlap, quintessential, goosed, romantic, pry, pork-stuffed wanton

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