THE POET COMES TO HARLEM

While visiting my grand-daughter MICHELLE up in Harlem, The Poet stopped by the world-famous Apollo theater on 125th Street.

PROMPT OF THE DAY: Write a poem describing what it takes to be a legend.

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 The Poet is on location in Barnes and Nobles,  downtown Brooklyn.  I'm here buying a copy of "JIMMY'S BLUES," the poetry of James Baldwin.

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PROMPT FOR TODAY: Write a poem describing your favorite poem and/or poet explaining why you chose them.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!

While walking down Broadway, where an elevated train line rolls from Brooklyn to Queens. I found LONE WOLF in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Hey! That's me. Okay, in this case it's a pub, but we share the same name. Lone Wolf is my alter-ego.

TODAY'S PROMPT: Write a poem which explains your alter-ego and the effect it has on your actions/interactions.

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One bus from Ohio to New York. Same bus all the way. Got in town about noon. Looking forward to a good poem hunting

expedition.

CHALLENGE: Write a poem that describes something you are looking forward to experiencing.

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On board the Greyhound  bus headed for Philadelphia. I am now about 5 hours away from New York City.

Ohio is so 10 hours ago!

CHALLENGE: Write a poem telling what you would do if you could turn back the hands of time.

TAKING CHALLENGE 7

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HER STORY

Shelly Halpern Ph.d
Knows Black History
How I want to be

I sat in her class
And to my further demise
Tears began to swell up
Inside my eyes

I could not deny
Her superior knowledge
She knew what she  spoke of
She's taught it in college

But what I never got over
Not quite
And walked out her class
For spite
Shelly Halpern Ph.d
Was noticeably white

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First stop on my "Poem Hunting" expedition. Im coming to you from the Pittsburg  Pennsylvania bus station on the Greyhound bus line.  

They say that weird people ride the bus.

I ride the bus so I must be weird.

PROMPT OF THE DAY: Write a poem describing a wierd act you recently committed.