tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65998130376085264512024-03-13T15:21:51.132-07:00GreatRiverPoetsBlog of the Great River Poet Society of Iowa, Nebraska, Dr. Ali Arsanjanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16050651004852570672noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6599813037608526451.post-14611127436780025482016-08-28T21:48:00.000-07:002016-09-03T09:54:24.746-07:00Welcome to Our Group Poetry Effort<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In our Mt Pleasant meeting we decided to create a blog and allow each of the members to be authors. An initial project was suggested to be a group poetry writing exercise: one person would suggest a subject, prompt or as Mary suggested a first line from a famous poem and others would each contribute a line (verse) or stanza.<br />
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I nominate Robert Frost's famous "The Road Not Taken":<br />
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,</div>
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And sorry I could not travel both</div>
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And be one traveler, long I stood</div>
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And looked down one as far as I could</div>
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To where it bent in the undergrowth;</div>
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I suggest rather than copying the first line we emulate the style and tone with something like :</div>
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<cite class="user" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/07282252981035047355" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">iowaboy1954</a></cite><span class="icon user" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="margin-left: 6px;"><a href="http://greatriverpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2016/08/welcome-to-our-group-poetry-effort.html?showComment=1472511352419#c4668788302817481160" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">August 29, 2016 at 3:55 PM</a></span></div>
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When I come to the fork in the road<br />Spying the spoon and knife in the gutter<br />curiosity pulls me sideways<br />and I never reach home<br />in time for dinner</div>
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