Wyoming County Fair - August 15, 2013
Photo by Amy LV
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Students - Today's offering is one of those "this just happened to me" poems. Well, sort of. I mean, we did spend last evening at the fair. That part is true. And I did see the moon. (See it in the photograph?) While I didn't ride the Tilt-a-Whirl, I did think about Moon on our car trip home, I wondered about her looking down on the Wyoming County Fair. Does she ever wish she could ride the Tilt-a-Whirl?
In my first drafts of this poem, Moon never does come down to Earth; she stays longing up there in the sky. But then I thought a thought that many writers think. WHAT IF? What if Moon DID ride the Tilt-a-Whirl? And what if I sat beside her? Such a happy thought for me...
This is something a writer can always do. We can take real memories and write half-real and half-pretend.
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