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 L BI Library in the meeting room using our laptops\, or you can join from ho me using your own computer/laptop.
\nOur Prompt for August \;is to write a poem that \;uses a word\, a phrase\, or li
ne \;from this 1863 poem by Emily Dickinson.
\;
I re
ckon - 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 Comprehe
nd the Whole -
The Others look a needless Show -
So I write - Po
ets - All -
Their Summer - lasts a Solid
Year -
They can a
fford a Sun
The East - would deem
Extravagant -
And if th
e Further Heaven -
Be Beautiful as they prepare
For Those who
worship Them -
It is too difficult a Grace -
To justify the Dre
am -
\;
As a Bonus Challenge
\;use three or more of the following words \;chosen at random from Jan
e Smiley's novel\, \;Duplicate Keys.
\;
anatomy\, bitte
rsweet\, duplicate\, suitcase\, trainee\, cop\, implication\, honey\, firm
ament\, half-page\, photographer\, gawker\, speculation\, joke\, clean\, l
ens\, deftly\, bedroom\, yellow\, windows\, wildflowers\, warm\, cabinets\
, blessings\, doorknob\, bounced\, avoid\, toast\, sleep\, animation\, dis
belief\, cleanup\, joke\, wisdom\, wailing\, vivid\, peppers\, Rochester\,
vermilion\, slid\, eaten\, cab\, fragment\, mention\, Waldorf\, dovetaile
d\, knitted\, cards\, briskly\, refuse\, juice\, orange\, ammonia\, transl
ucent\, upholstery\, stuff\, questions\, unplugged\, satiny\, chestnuts\,
sober\, sidewalk\, nine-thirty\, passers-by\, coffee\, library\, bumping\,
cavernous\, wallet\, anomalous\, stacks\, detective\, red stain\, twiligh
t\, robins\, grin\, weeds\, Park Slope\, osmosis\, pruned\, promenade\, gl
oves\, grimace\, justice\, tears\, deal\, college\, comb\, forearms\, over
lap\, quintessential\, goosed\, romantic\, pry\, pork-stuffed wanton