The mid-week wordle from APED provided these words to work with: Buy, Abandoned, Again, Dad, Mystery, Story, Mouse, Nothing, Glimpse and Soul (see the link for the guidelines).
It didn’t take me long to compose a tanka using most of them.
abandoned again
it cuts through my very soul
where are you Daddy?glimpse at me and tears you’ll see
nothing but pain – my story
When I glanced over the wordlist for the latest “wordle” from A Prompt Each Day last night I had a very different idea of what I was going to write using them than what came out this morning when I sat down to actually put the words together.
As I looked over the list afresh today, my mind went to a different time, place, and subject: my father and his death. This tanka, then, just sort of write itself, remembering that chapter of my life.
Hidden forever
A day of deeply mourning
Forever I’m changed
Flurry of emotions hits
Childhood ends – final embrace
(The word list is: Flurry, Hidden, Childhood, Day, Deep, Hid, Baby, Embrace, Once and Forever.)
I had some free time this afternoon so I decided to see what what today’s prompt at A Prompt Each Day was. I found a “wordle” – a list of words that you try to incorporate at least three of into a piece of writing, any style – that intrigued me. The word list is:
Clouds, Lake, Heads, Glee, Waves; Wishes, Naked, Talk, Rocks and Home.
This is my “weekend wordle”:
Beyond the naked trees of yesteryear,
Below the blue-gray cloudscape back-when,
A lake of memories lays here
Late night talks, hopes, and dreamsThoughts, musings, and wishes,
Waves of glee, fresh they seem
As she rocks in the old chair,A smile gently wrinkles her face,
Home– in her mind she’s already there
I know, I slightly altered a couple of words but I think I kept them close enough to count; what do you think?
Potholes in the Road of Life 