To attend this virtual event please contac t Sue Cummings via email scummings817@comcast.net. This group meets the1st Thursday of every month from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You may also join the pro gram in-person at the LBI Library in the meeting room each month.
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Our Prompt for September is to write a poem that utilizes the lin e\, "I prize the sweets of life"\, from Benjamin Franklin's poem\, The Rev erse.
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\nThe Reverse
\nby Benjamin Franklin (VI I Mon. September [1742] hath xxx days.)
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\nStudious o
f Ease\, and fond of humble Things\,
Below the Smiles\, below the Fr
owns of Kings:
Thanks to my Stars\, I prize the Sweets of Life\,
No sleepless Nights I count\, no Days of Strife.
I rest\, I wake\
, I drink\, I sometimes love\,
I read\, I write\, I settle\, or I ro
ve\;
Content to live\, content to die unknown\,
Lord of myse lf\, accountable to none.
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\nAs a Bonus Challenge use three or more of the following words selected at random from Jane Smiley' s novel\, Early Warning.
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\nthousand\, quilt\, crossr oad\, capture\, San Francisco\, anchor\, self-defense\, prima donna\, jack et\, sober\, pigs-in-a-blanket\, flop\, blue crepe\, porcelain\, oyster\, electricity\, cherry\, cellar\, stack\, Tanforan\, intertwined\, blizzard\ , cake\, supply\, trail\, slurp\, rummaged\, billow\, adrift\, cultivate\, triangle\, foregone\, clutch\, leach\, embargo\, bourgeoisie\, doorway\, black\, protocol\, cajole\, autobiography\, picturesque\, stage\, blaze\, seemingly\, accelerator\, denounce\, wolfish\, soda fountain\, moonlight\, flagstones\, triangular\, hike\, nestle\, indelible\, historical\, subver sive\, lock\, candid\, jiggled\, precinct\, eggs
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