ZIPOdes

[RSherman]

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.

[Croney]

1. 02138

😱
Harvard Square,
Decaying.
Revived every June,
When crimson-robed scholars hand futures
to grinning graduates.

[RSherman]

3. Fantastic!

[Walleye]

2. Ok here goes. 19807

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.

[RSherman]

4. How fun!