MONDAY PROMPT/ May 17
This week’s prompt
Guess what? This week’s prompt is a Wordle! We’ve grabbed some words offered by you, our circus-goers, to create this week’s prompt. All you have to do now is pick one or any number of them and write this week’s poem!
How prompts work under the Big Tent
We post prompts on Mondays, and you have all week to write your poems, based on our fabulous prompt or any other inspiration. Come back on Friday when you will find a “Come One, Come All” post where you can use the comments section to 1) leave a link to your poem or 2) leave the poem in its entirety.
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Oh, gosh. Is it Monday already? Okay, then.
Oh good, a wordle! I like to print these out so that I can pin them up for inspiration, but even though I have my printer set to “grey scale”, not all of the words print out.
Bummer! I worried that the colors might become a problem. (But they seemed so lovely on the page I couldn’t resist.)
Here are the words so you can make your own b&w Wordle:
purse crumple pattern futile doff caparison proof capitulate fondle tincture sapient glitch
grand batch of wordies, though I may choke on my caparison
How about a couple of bonus words for you: Heimlich & maneuver. (We want you to be safe!)
hmmm, one german, one french
okay. you’re on. done and done
As Barbara is the wordle champ it is only fair that she should get a few more difficult words.A few more bonus words for Barbara: nomenclature,schadenfreude,parsimonious,exponential,twaddle,fractious.
Ha,that makes 20 words.
I *love* that twaddle is in the mix!
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I have a perfectly fine poem with heimlich and maneuver. this will require a thinking cap. and a nightcap. hmmm
Maybe there is a bonus poem #2 :-), wearing a night cap. ;-)
was a bit punchy by the time I finished rallentanda’s words, so I stuck the night cap on it and turned in.
I’ve done some Wordle poems, but have trouble printing them. When my techy son was here he made some Wordle postcards of them, but I’ve forgotten how to do it. My Wordle poem for this week is a second instalment of my elephant in the room poem. I will put it up on Friday.
Meanwhile in response to someone’s mention of a possible forthcoming Canzone prompt, I have just put a very silly sestina on here: http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/a-silly-sestina/
I will need more than a week or three to write a Canzone, so I may start now…
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I love that there are a couple new words in this particular wordle. I had to look up both sapient and caparison (which at first I thought was a typo!)
I might be late getting into the game this week, but I am appreciative!
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I am going to try to post this correctly, as per Neil’s instructions:
Capitulation
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