Sunday Invitation – for September 20th

Poetry Prompt - through Sunday, September 27, 2009

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Canadian Airmen in a Park

By William Goodridge Roberts

1944

This week, for Sunday, September 20th, our SIMPLY SNICKERS poetry prompt includes these key words:

read or reed

rest or wrest

This week, we celebrate the birthday of Canadian painter William Goodridge Roberts, who was born on September 24, 1904.

To honor this artist SIMPLY SNICKERS offers samples of this artist’s work to accompany this week’s prompt.

Above:

White and Yellow Flowers

By William Goodridge Roberts

c1958

Below:

Still Life

By William Goodridge Roberts

1948

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