Zelda's Inferno exercise: a travel poem

Tom Swiss [ 18 July 2010 - 7:55pm ]

Zelda's Inferno exercise: write a poem about travel, literal or figurative -- with a cherry on top (literal or figurative)

the car does not like these mountains
there are no switchbacks here, just a straight charge 2,000 feet up
and at 140,000 miles the engine is not as strong as once it was

but all true paths lead through mountains, as Snyder Sensei tells us --
there must be a challenge in the journey
so I turn off the AC, roll down the windows
accepting the heat so that we may have the power to climb this peak

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Baltimore's longest-running weekly poetry workshop.

We write. We talk. Sundays at 7:00pm (or so, Standard Poet Time), now at The Fells Grind, 1720 Thames Street in Fells Point. Free!

What, you want details? A couple of people sit around. Usually, we do a writing exercise for about 20 minutes. We share what we wrote. We talk about it. We share and discuss other pieces people bring in. We maybe do another exercise. We drink coffee. We go off on wild tangents.

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