Road Trip

By Linda Trott Dickman

When I first saw the advertisement for the National Poetry Writing Month contest, I thought, well, I've tried so many other years. Labored over manuscripts. This time, I am just going to have fun!  So, I thought of the road trip we were about to set out upon.  I know I could not actually write the poems until April, but I chose to take notes on the locations where we stopped.  Then I thought about all the road trips we took when I was a child.  Our family would literally sing the Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. We would all take different parts and sing it. That's when it hit me.  "What do you do on a road trip?  SING!" All the school field trips, the Girl Scout hikes, we sang.  I had fun with the music of the trip.  I let go of my concern about winning, and concentrated on just having fun.  That is how this book became an award winning book.  Got a challenge?  Have fun with it. ~ Linda Trott Dickman

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Penguin Books
• Release date: Sep 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781637773222

Book preview

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A Song of the Road

O I WILL walk with you, my lad, whichever way you fare,

You'll have me, too, the side o' you, with heart as light as air;

No care for where the road you take's a-leadin' anywhere,--

It can but be a joyful ja'nt whilst you journey there.

The road you take's the path o' love, an' that's the bridth o' two--

An' I will walk with you, my lad -- O I will walk with you.

Ho! I will walk with you, my lad,

Be weather black or blue

Or roadsides frost or dew, my lad --

O I will walk with you.

Aye, glad, my lad, I'll walk with you, whatever winds may blow,

Or summer blossoms stay our steps, or blinding drifts of snow;

The way thay you set face an' foot 's the way that I will go,

An' brave I'll be, abreast o' ye, the Saints and Angels know!

With loyal hand in loyal hand, an' one heart made o' two,

Through summer's gold, or winter's cold, It's I will walk with you.

Sure, I will walk with you,