MONDAY PROMPT / December 20
This week’s prompt
Oh, how we love Wordles! Anytime of year, but especially in December when there are just so many (too many!) expectations drifting about. Use as many of these words as you want to in a poem; we’re keeping things especially low key this week!
Come back starting Friday and through the weekend to post your poems!
(And don’t worry about which famous poem is the source of these words. They simply jumped out at us as we read a novel.)
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.
You’ll have all day Friday (and all weekend!) to post your work and read each others’ work. Take your time. Enjoy all the poems that are new to the world.
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I had a worry there wouldn’t be a prompt this week! So grateful to know there IS one, indeed.
I think I’ll go for something outside my ordinary but I never know where Wordles will take me!
:)happy holidays! and we have one next monday, too.
another Wordle on Monday? wow.. great! :D
John Mortimer’s words jumped out at me from the page I was reading and your chosen words for the wordle immediately came to mind
‘ These words were like challenges thrown out in the darkness in the hope they would start a tournament ,or like clay pigeons shot up into the sky for anyone to pot at.’
love the quote, Rall! :)
Not easy but I had a go…..
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2010/12/wordle-hurdle.html
Oh. No. But a prompt!