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Wordle Tragedy

For The Sunday Whirl poetry prompt: Wordle #89 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Wordle Tragedy Dearest Brenda, hope you won’t hold it against me, but these words you delivered got nasty. Took them to my room, that place where I brood, but somehow they ended … Continue reading

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Before Sense, Only Sound

For The Sunday Whirl Poetry Prompt: Wordle #88 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Before Sense, Only Sound Before words have meaning, each one is an enigma of sound: rapid spasms that burst through clenched lips, insistent on being heard. Seeming to hurl themselves at … Continue reading

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What Would The Neighbors Think?

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #81 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ this week’s wordlist: wrath, tumultuous, scramble, flees, shore, key, swelling, upbeat, depths, enable, rotten, charm. and for November PAD Challenge: Image #4 http://1sojournal.wordpress.com/ What Would The Neighbors Think? Their beginnings were tumultuous, like … Continue reading

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A List Poem About Why

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #80 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ And for We Write Poems: list poem I Write Because… http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/ A List Poem About Why I write because there was a time when women were thought incapable of doing so. I write … Continue reading

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Prodigal Steps

For The Sunday Whirl: wordle #76 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Prodigal Steps Eyes dazed by bright sunlight, she steps into shadowy narthex. Immediately assaulted by scent of incense: ancient symbol of prayers rising from centuries of countless believers. Watches as fingertips reach to … Continue reading

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Darkening Echo

For the Sunday Whirl: Wordle #75 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Darkening Echo (for Joan) You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band Aid. Michael Connelly – The Black Echo Senses life is nothing more than dried husk, constantly shook by storms long … Continue reading

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Attempted Alliteration

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #74 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Attempted Alliteration Half asleep, caught movement through exterior lit window. A sensuous silhouette silently sauntering past, dark tresses flowing over bared shoulders. Peering through only partially opened eyes, thought as an artist, how … Continue reading

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Where’s The Beef?

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #73 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Where’s The Beef? Fierce warrior cows pastured in remote rugged field, suffer monthly slaughter in silence because no one believes they will ever be of other service. Until, one late morning, when they … Continue reading

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Loosely Knit

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #71 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Loosely Knit No real plan, more a recipe of sorts, lacking a few essential ingredients. Comparable to fine pencil tracings on empty paper, easily erased, readily rewritten. Like a chain link fence without … Continue reading

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Only An Attempted Wordle Murder

For The Sunday Whirl: Wordle #70 http://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/ Only An Attempted Wordle Murder Won’t you celebrate with me these words I am tipping, affixing onto this page? What I have shaped from only hinted at, tinted experiences in prelude of childhood. … Continue reading

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