Plots and Rolls
The carnival anchors
temporarily on a city plot
just behind where
the brewery is built.
It’s where we book club
idiots (book reference)
discuss plots while
carnies maneuver too.
Inside, they roll barrels
while we roll theories out
about, _Anxious People_;
outside the ferris wheel
rolls and rolls to sunset.
Melissa is today’s host for dVerse’ Poetics. Melissa wants us to write a poem including one example of zeugma. Not sure if I got the knack of it but I tried. _Anxious People_ is a book by Fredrik Backman I recently read.
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Nicely done my dear friend. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Thanks, Sadje!
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You’re welcome ☺️
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You got it, Lisa! I like your fun take on the prompt.😆
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Thanks. My experience tonight was useful after all ;)
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Same here, not my favorite prompt😀
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Feeling challenged by it but rolling with it ;)
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A wonderful poem of Summer, Lisa. The Ferris Wheel is so iconic!
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I was actually not expecting to see it tonight. Thanks, Dwight.
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:>)
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A nice poem and our carnival comes here in late August. Nothing like a carnival at night.
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It’s been a long time since going to the carnival. It used to be the greatest excitement as a kid seeing those flashing lights and the fun rides. I was actually surprised to see it in that location.
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Oh when I was a kid…the school would give us a half day off to go on a Friday… so much excitement.
Yea they pop up in different places in Nashville. Where I live they were always at the “fairgrounds”… the same now.
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I can’t believe they gave you half a day off from school to go! They used to have them in the big store parking lots back in the day. Now they have them downtown, but they used to have them on city owned land. This is a bigwig with a lot of lakefront property downtown. We have a fairgrounds but it’s way out of town. They have a 4H thing out there but that’s all I know of. In a town between here and Grand Rapids (Marne) they have a stock car racetrack and a fairgrounds and have a big festival every year. I love those small town festivals!
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Oh yes….Jen will look them up at times and I found myself at events like “The RC Cola and Moonpie festival” lol…no kidding.
4H…I haven’t thought of that in years. I was in that for a year I believe.
Ours was at a big grassy place with a horse ring….they would have a horse show and then a demolition derby.
Yours does sound like a lot of fun.
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lol on RC Cola and Moonpie Festival. The name means you know you will have a good time. We have a Gerber Baby Food Festival north of here, in Fremont, which is the home of Gerber baby food. They have a stage with live music, and the carnival of course.
So you were in 4H? What did you do in it? Demolition Derby sounds like a blast. Horse show sounds fun too. We never had that option, being city kids. We did have scouting and I remember being in Girl Scouts for a bit.
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Oh that is cool about the Gerber food…that is what I had…and Bailey.
I was in it for a year or so…I remember being told about planting things and visiting some working farms…I liked it but I knew “farmer” was never going to be me.
I was never in the Boy Scouts…I do regret that.
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Same here with the Gerber baby food. I had it and so did my kids. It’s cool you had a chance to learn about farmers. They truly are the hardest working people out there, and farming is an art as well. Max, I don’t like say ill of anything, but you may be lucky you were never in the Scouts. I remember when oldest son was in it, a couple of these “scout masters” tried to get my son alone in a school “to go swimming.” Even he agrees something wasn’t right about the situation. Wish I knew their names.
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Yea it’s probably best I didnt’ go… I did do some stuff like play baseball so I did other things but we lived in the middle of the country…so the scouts would not have offered much to me and there was always that threat you talked about.
I respect farmers a lot…they have a hard thankless job.
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The barrels and theories…work so nicely on two fronts…really quite masterful, the rolling, the beer and philosophy…really enjoyed that and the sense of movement
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Ain, thanks much. I didn’t realize you were on substack and am now following you. I have an account there too but it’s mostly a ghost town.
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Your contribution makes it easy to see the rhetorical device of two separate activities joined at the hip of concept — the whirl of joyriding carnival cars and ideas at a book club are essentially one. It humbles the speaker and widens the world.
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Brendan, your feedback is much appreciated. I wondered if it worked.
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Great use of the verb roll, great poem!
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Jay, thanks so much :)
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This is an interesting poem, Lisa. It’s a good prompt by Melissa.
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Thanks, Robbie, and I agree on Melissa’s prompt. Brand new which makes it a fun challenge.
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😀🌈
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Most certainly it worked Lisa – and the wheel rolls on…
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:)
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You rolled with the prompt very well! Love the book title at the end, Anxious People….which could also be the anxious people standing in line, worrying a bit about “rolling” that high!
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:) Thanks, Lillian!
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Rolls is a good word choice. (K)
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Thanks, K.
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Well done!
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Thank you :)
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Nice one Lisa
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Happy you dropped by to read mine
much♡love
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Gillena, thank you and always a pleasure to read your poems.
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A gem of a write, Lisa!
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Frank, thank you! :)
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