We brush mud into
the cracks, make
bricks of our heaviest
fears, stain these bluffs
with our tears –
trembled vessels
shadowed stones –
willow-weep our way
up to where
moon’s corona
softens heart’s nail
sail off into bitter
ebony breeze,
crawl home.
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Wordled for The Sunday Whirl.
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I really like “make bricks of our heaviest fears” and how you cleverly worked all of the wordle words into a kind of ‘other-wordly’ poem!
I meant ‘other-worldly.’
Oh yes! Let the moon soften the nails in our hearts. This is fantastic, De.
Nice, De
I had trouble with this, but you make it look so smooth
(btw you asked somebody how to change the comment prompt: It’s in settings: discussion way down at the bottom the “comment form” prompt.
Thanks, Barbara. 🙂
Love the title…moon masonry. Perfect for your prose!
well done. the word choice and flow give it that ‘heavy’ feel that is so appropriate to the subject matter.
what planet do you come from? a superior word planet I suspect, yes, that’s it, a superior word planet ….
Esther, you seriously crack me up. And warm my heart. Thank you.
I like what you built here. Excellent masonry. 🙂
Very cool title and first line.
Nice poetry take on today’s words! Fun, isn’t it!
Brilliant writing! Love your title! My favorite lines: “make bricks of our heaviest fears, stain these bluffs with our tears” and “moon’s corona softens heart’s nail.” Truly spectacular!
Wow, how clever to make an extended metaphor of those wordle words.
I really enjoyed the images here. Excellent metaphor.
Love the wordplay and your use of metaphor, De.
Pamela
Oh, De!!! I love the way your words went for wordle!!! This makes my heart smile:
“trembled vessels
shadowed stones –
willow-weep our way”
Excellent….the thought of trembled vessels, yes…I love this so much!
I agree with all the comments above. A lovely piece. Very compact and full… ‘trembling vessels/ shadowed stones… Brill!
Love it to pieces De. Amazing how differently everyone interprets these 12 little words. 🙂
Love the title!! 🙂 Perfect!!
HEY! 🙂
Life is hard work, is what this poem is saying to me. Love the “make bricks of our heaviest fears” and then “moon’s corona/soften’s heart’s nail.”
Love this De! Our fears can really turn into bricks in our souls, weighing us down in the worst ways. Nicely wordled!
Thank you all, so much. Trying to get caught up, and get around to all of you today before we head out of town.
From your brilliant title to “willow weep our way” – this is wonderful – about what we’ve come to expect from you De … good on you.
http://aleapingelephant.blogspot.ca/2012/06/black-webbed-claw.html
Very DE and highly expressive in their brevity. But, you knew that!
“stain these bluffs with our tears” Brilliance in brevity.
Reminds me of some kind of sacrifice…To an Aztec God …at least the lucky ones got to ‘crawl home’.
My story verse(s), one a wordle can be found here:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/06/sunday-whirl-60-maiden-voyage.html
We endure. That’s the allure…
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