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\n\nOur Prompt for August is to write about a poem about a \;"Road Trip" \;(real or fi ctional).
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\nHere's a wee bit of inspiration:
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\nThe Roads Taken
\nby Barbara Kynett
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\nThe winds blew\, prodigiously\, out of K.C.\,
\nand leaving behind the blufflands\,
\nthe overgrown ruts of westering wagons\,< br />the last of the long grass\,
\nsomewhere past the Leavenworth t urn
\nthey blew on the tail of the Plymouth coupe
\ntill it fl ew like a prairie bird\,
\nearthbound\, but seeming to skim
\n
the cambered stretches of macadam\,
the empty length of open highway.
Ballast was light. In back\, tools\,
\na can of gas\,
\na briefcase of order forms\,
some GE tracts\,
a salesman's bible of pitches\,
\nand one change of clothes
in a brown vali
se.
Straight out of Canada\,
pitching at the Rockies\,
with a hint in them\, like fate\,
\nof something darker than the end
of an Autumn day
.
Riding and pushing his rear\,
\nracing the Santa Fe past E llsworth\, past Bunker Hill\,
\ninto that one prairie town&mdash\;a homing pigeon\,
\nbeak marked by countless mason jars\,
s
melling camaraderie
and the sweet absolution of bootleg Scotch&mda
sh\;
toward the coming lights
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\nAs a Bo nus Challenge use three or more of the following words chosen at random from Drew Gilpin Faust's book\, The Creation of Confederate Nationa lism.
\nLouisiana\, sliding\, mock\, dynamic\, hair\, sheet music\, nightingales\, bread\, quick\, advice\, transcendent\, stacked\, dispassio nate\, divine\, preponderance\, embroil\, synonymous\, perils\, appear\, s purious\, valuate\, mystical\, sage\, strike\, spirit\, catechism\, quicks tep\, Tupelo\, relearn\, challenge\, express\, insist\, assume\, force\, o dium\, soothe\, Jewish\, cry\, complain\, pull\, platonic\, notion\, legal \, avert\, bold\, ill-equipped\, cement\, reciprocity\, metaphor\, cautiou s\, argue\, change\, path\, variety\, traveling\, Caribbean islands\, narr owing\, chorus\, insulated\, word\, divine\, pinnacle
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