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I just heard a story about ZIPOdes! How fun!
https://omiami.org/pages/zip-odes#:~:text=A%20place%2Dbased%20poetic%20form,place%2Dbased%2C%20lyrical%20celebration.
Here's how it goes. You take your ZIP code (mine is 13339). You write a 5 line poem about where you live and you can use the number of words/line that correlate with your code:
13339
Ephratah
Biblical, "Bethlehem", "fruitful"
Fulton County hamlet
Home of Saltsman's
Famous hotel guests include FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Helen Thomas.
Try your hand at it and let's keep this going!
I forgot to add, that if you're ZIP includes, a 0, you can leave a line blank, use the word "oh", or use punctuation. A friend used two exclamation points to represent smokestacks.
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😱
Harvard Square,
Decaying.
Revived every June,
When crimson-robed scholars hand futures
to grinning graduates.
Walleye
(33,709 posts)Wilmington
Home of the best president ever Joseph R Biden
Biggest city in the First State being Delaware
0
No sales tax. Leafy streets, flowering trees.