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Category Archives: wordles
Wordle 244 Haiku chain for Easter Sunday
Your names are many, oh God of many forms ─ rescue earthly life Words are not enough ─ enlighten the misguided blow smoke from our minds Banish three pebbles ─ distrust, fear and violence from beneath our feet Banish … Continue reading
Wordle 243 – A Tribute
I want to tell you about a blogging-quilting friend. Born to cycle, every day a journey, no matter what the sky throws at her she pedals around the country, never standing still, exerting all her energy over stones and rough … Continue reading
Wordle 242
Listen to wise words ─ they can transform the lives of dreamers present them with an object, a goal, until they flower and shine, water the deserts and other arid places; bring ease to the troubled, soothe the sick … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, wordles
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Wordle 236 and Haibun Monday
“Shut your eyes. Put one foot in front of the other and follow the line until I tell you to stop. Hmm! You’ll have to do better than that, your right foot is a country mile from the line. … Continue reading
Wordle 232, The Explorer
The intrepid explorer left in icy cold cold enough to make him gasp cold to the core of his being. cold to freeze the blood cold enough til frostbite iced the loss of toes. Days would pass in limbo— the … Continue reading
Posted in free verse, wordles
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Wordle 231
To write a wordle I’ll try to tell you how to join a dozen unconnected words into sensible prose or poetry. Write the words on slips of paper. Next, shuffle them like cards and deal them into a line. Then think … Continue reading
Posted in nonsense poems, really bad poetry, wordles
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Wordle 230
Warped and twisted extremists spread everywhere a stream of fear, entwine us in their vicious schemes to lure us into their world of hatred This flood of anger must be resisted or peace will never reign again. The creases of … Continue reading
Posted in short poetry, wordles
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Wishful Wordle
I wish for clarity of thought for the leaders of the world ─ naked truth wrapped inside mercy, kindness, gentle wisdom, integrity and most of all, for common sense. * I wish that I had wings to fly around … Continue reading
A sight for sore eyes – wordle 224
After the harvest the tractor dance resumes to harrow, lime and sow. Fourteen days spin by until from dull brown swathe of stubble emerges green enough to stun, a grid of translucent stripes across the span of my armchair view … Continue reading
A twofer from Wordle 221 for Octpo 18
How could I write a poem about weapons without swearing or weeping? It is my deeply held view that makers, sellers, buyers of weapons are as guilty of murder as those who use them. *** Transform the energy from good … Continue reading
Wordle Sloth
Sunday minus inspiration brings the need to write a poem. What’s to do but look for words – a treasure hunt without direction Dropped a wordle to my inbox, words galore in pink variety. Still nothing speaks to me with … Continue reading
Despair – Wordle 217
Deny it if you can – the world is in a mess: obnoxious cult a threat to our survival. Evil men will try to make our lives a hell, cause families to flee the scent of war. Tolerance is a … Continue reading
Exhortation – Wordle 215
Friends, enemies and the rest, I beseech you to make a bridge across the pond to carry the dispossessed to safety. Be generous with your money to help feed poor refugees. The DNA in their cells is human, like ours. … Continue reading
Wordle 213 The Interloper
Unobtrusive amber brown, a bird of easy virtue chirps merrily to entice a mate or two or maybe three to stop by her home in the wood. An interloper comes in secret in search of a deal, a foster home, … Continue reading
WORRISOME WORDLE 213
A superior being has chiselled away at me leaving a hollow space with no words, no rhythm, no poetry, nothing but puzzles. My feckless muse is dumb having lost lucidity to a perplexing foreign tongue in a struggle to make … Continue reading