Nearing the end of Poetry Month!
A few guidelines I follow for my Wordle poems:
- I begin with my usual starter word: HEART.
- I follow the same sequence of words in the poem as I did to solve Wordle.
- I limit extra words, using only a few to flesh out the meaning/description and to improve the rhythm.
- I’ll occasionally change the tense of a word when it makes sense grammatically. I might make it plural or hyphenate.
- I add a title.
The plan is to post a new set of weekly Wordle poems every Sunday at least through April, if not beyond.
Sunday, April 19
Tree house with a hart
Don’t worry, dear heart
I only shoot pictures from my deer stand
Monday, April 20 (I added more words to this one)
Studio Garden
Bleeding hearts, pink and red and dripping
Apple trees forming fruit (firm and juicy, never mealy)
Pink lotus pond, a peace offering to the frogs
And myself at the window ready to weave
Tuesday, April 21
Cruel weather
Cold hearted
April cloud drops
rain
snow
sleet
hail with a tic tic then a clunk
Clump of ice, big as a fist
Wednesday, April 22
God’s True Church
Preachers preached hearts were Pagan
and spires and steeples were Satan’s
Believers believed and kept score:
Sins and lists of who swore
And who through sermons dared snore
Thursday, April 23
Little fighter jets
A thousand heartbeats a minute
They swarm the sweet scent
Fleets of hummingbirds
Claiming trumpets with tweets
Friday, April 24
Go Home America, You’re Drunk!
Cruel hearts in lockstep
behind a crook with a crown
Bring us to the brink,
Dumb Drunk and Mad Clown
Saturday, April 25
The Purloined Cash
Kingpin of the heartland
Dripping with slime
Bribe money, robber money, laundered money, foreign money, kickback money, crypto money, crony money, corporate money, campaign money, market manipulated money, insider traded money, war money, tax money, impounded money, oil money, dirty money
Money to buy the bodies of girls
Money to silence the voices of women
The Woven Document 