2017 April PAD Challenge: Day 10
Well, we just made it in from Austin. 18 hours, but we’re back home, and the kids are all sleeping in their beds. Yay! For today’s prompt, write a travel…
Well, we just made it in from Austin. 18 hours, but we're back home, and the kids are all sleeping in their beds. Yay!
For today's prompt, write a travel poem. Your poem can be about the process of traveling, planning to travel, vicariously traveling through television programs, or however else you'd like to take this prompt.
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Here’s my attempt at a Travel Poem:
“watching the tour”
watching the tour de france
is partially about the sport
both the physical endurance
& the cunning strategy
but it's also about the views
of mountains & castles
& small villages filled
with people & stories
i'd one day like to visit
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