Wordle Poetry Month: Day 15

Them Next Doors, Amirite?

You tried to shame me

and chase me off this great porch

won't mince words: fuck you

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 300 3/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 14

Iron Chef Mantra (and i wrote this with one hand)

mince the meat

chunk the cucumber

please panel

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 299 3/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 13

Remembering Wayne Crawford

You'd pound that hand drum

and recite poetry in a song chunk

stay silent, regal, no royal yet mum

it felt at first a clunk, but then it sunk

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 298 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 12

World's and History's and Poetry's Smallest Ars Poetica

Royal jellyfish blunts, tequila, and a hip hop squad;

now I write.

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 297 2/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 11

#underworldproblems

Hades donned in dark red and jet black

frantically checked facebook, instagram, zoom, his phone, and slack;

for Persephone, over sixth months didn't call him back.

chilling with her spring time squad, queen of the ghosting hack.

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 296 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 10

Trying Something Funny But it Turns Corny

The ghoul year blimp floats

above the supernatural bowl

frankensteins's monsters in black and gold

scored a scare in overtime

 

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 295 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 9

Bible Belt Town

strip club by

the kid on the gun store

stair, to scare

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 294 3/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 8

For De La

my brothers' a baser-head is not how the song goes,

but when De La scared hip hop hacks with De La is Dead,

the industry tried to erase tribe called quest, jungle bros.;

but the native tongues never lost hip hop cred. 

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 293 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 7

Mmm, Mmm, Mood

You sprinkle commas in your alphabet soup

like the Vienna boys choir sprinkles falsetto notes.

After toiling, you say Don't gourd yourself on bread

Let's enter life's foray before we're dead.

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 292 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 6

June: Kendrick's Fabric Shop

What is this fabric, micro-modal?

Said the salesman to the pre-natal.

Don't call me momma!

She said with no comma.

And headed down to foamy SoCal.

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 291 5/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 5

Lesson Learned, Too Nosey

our new neighbors chant

their pre-natal breaths daily

holding a red shawl

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 290 3/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 4

A Shoal of Bream

after father's day, you told me: none shall pass

as you wrapped the shawl my grandmother gave you

around yourself, thinking about how my dad took us ice fishing

finding no fewer than five fat fish underneath the icy shoal

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 289 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 3

My Aunt's Secret

Pearl's decor was an alluring, expansive heft

little did we know, her trope was grand theft

dozens of items not fewer

with ethics from the sewer

at femur breaking she was most deft

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 288 5/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 2

Another Anniversary, the Eighth One

We five filled the parking meter with pocket change.

Paul's snout still sore from Andrea's accidental (?) slap.

Summerwind's down-towny bar, The Treasure Trove, was (regretfully) not packed.

We third-wheeled the couple--now in full "Bickersons" trope--a celebration turned cringe.

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 287 4/6

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Wordle Poetry Month: Day 1

No Mortgage, No Cry

dog's snout sniffs

the old water stain

and rents due

here are the rules

and beware spoilers

Wordle 286 3/6

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National Poetry Month & Wordle: The Rules

 Alright chumps, it's been a while. So, to get back into this, and do something I haven't done in a while, here's what's up:

-I do the wordle when it first comes out (PST midnight my time, usually).

-I'm gonna post my results.

-I'm gonna write a poem based upon my results.

-I have to use all the words (the one caveat is that I always use the same starter word, so I'll use the previous wordle's word instead, so I don't keep reusing the same word; but for the first poem, my starter word will be in it).

[meta-note...do people still read blogger?]

-And...depending on how many tries it takes me, is how long the poem is. For example:

One line = it'll never happen, because I use the same word, but let's say it does, then I'll write an Italian Sonnet in full iambic pentameter, which I'll really hate...so my good fortune will be my punishment.

Two lines = a couplet, maybe it rhymes, maybe it doesn't.

Three lines = a haiku

Four lines = a quatrain

Five lines = a limerick (classy, but the short rhymes will be the answer...spoiler)

Six lines = I've thought a lot about this, and I rarely get this (#humblebrag), so, to challenge myself, I'll write a sestina, using all six words. I do love sestinas, but dammit I haven't written those in a while.

Oh, and titles will be written AFTER the poems.

Alright chums up, let's do this...

pb

PS spoiler warnings