There’s just something about a random group of words that inspires me to connect some dots and create a poem. In other words, I’ve been playing around with Wordle poems again. They’re such a fun, low-stakes way to keep myself writing. In general, my rules are to use all the words I guess when playing Wordle, in order, within the poem. Variations on the words are okay. Here’s one I wrote with these words from a recent game: gutsy, dream, pearl, farer, carve.
On This Morning
With a hopeful, gutsy stride
I step from my dreams,
cradling the pearl of wisdom
granted to all wayfarers
who travel the currents of night:
The day is open before you
Carve your own way
Always seek the light.
©Molly Hogan
Late last month I was inspired by this photo of a friend’s sister’s newly painted porch. Isn’t it gorgeous!?
It was obviously in my mind when I started playing Wordle a few days later, so I began guessing with the word “porch”. Usually I put my Wordle word guesses in the poem in the order in which I guessed them, but this time I moved them around a little. My words were: porch, clone, cloud.
“My house is where I like to be …”
Daniel Pinkwater*
for Jules Myers
No clone to convention,
she painted her porch
a stirring orange.
Now she’ll sit
amidst sunbeams,
contentedly watching
the clouds drift by.
©Molly Hogan
This line is borrowed from Daniel Pinkwater’s book “The Big Orange Splot”, which is a huge favorite of mine. Any other fans of Mr. Plumbean out there?
This week’s Poetry Friday Roundup is hosted by Jama at her blog, Jama’s Alphabet Soup. She’s celebrating all things donut in a scrumptious post! Be sure to check it out and the other links you’ll find there.
Nix the comfort zone 
Molly, I love that porch! It’s gutsy! What a clever idea to compose a poem with Wordle words. That never occurred to me. Now I will think about that when I play Wordle or Connections (if you haven’t tried it, you make like it!).
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Seeing that porch made me want to repaint my house! Also, I am a big fan of Connections and Spelling Bee. Those three are my daily morning line up!
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I remember you talking about your Wordle-words prompt a few weeks back. I haven’t tried it yet, but I love the idea.
And loved these lines:
cradling the pearl of wisdom
granted to all wayfarers
who travel the currents of night:
I also love your friend’s orange porch! Now I think I want to paint my front door. 🙂
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It’s such a welcoming and vibrant pop of color!
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Hello Molly. How wonderful to be here again. These are both such a beautiful journey through words. (I love that poetry can take a bunch of words and make them lilt. Certainly at your fingertips, Molly.) And that porch is pure joy!
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Thanks, Kat! There’s something irresistible to me about trying to link unrelated words together. PS I loved reading about your rich and busy September!
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You worked magic with both sets of words, Molly! I love the closing lines, “carve your own way, always seek the light.” And that orange porch!! Gorgeous!
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Thanks, Jama!
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I like how using the words of wordle help you use unique words in lines like “Carve your own way
Always seek the light.” Inspiring me.
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When the Wordle word was “Mommy” earlier this week, all my poetic effort disintegrated.
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Now that porch makes a statement, Molly, and so do your poems.
No clone to convention-your friend is a risktaker and knows what she wants. She will enjoy her porch for a long time.
Thanks for sharing.
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It looks like such a delightful place to spend a cozy afternoon with a book and a beverage!
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What a fun way to approach poem-making (wordle)! And when I first saw your friend’s porch, my thought was – Wow! That’s what it’s like to live inside a pumpkin! So fun!
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I love that initial thought! Now you have me thinking about what it would be like living inside all sorts of fruits and veggies!
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My kids and I could practically recite The Big Orange Splot! That’s one cool porch 🙂 It does look like sitting in sunbeams.
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I love that you and your kids are fans of “The Big Orange Splot!” Such a good book!
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Thank you for reminding me to write wordle poems. I love the color of the porch and always loved reading The Big Orange Splot!
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Yay! Another Mr. Plumbean fan! 🙂 It makes me so happy to know that others love this book as well.
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Even though I don’t do wordle, Molly,I fully appreciate your efforts weaving words into cohesive verse. No small achievement. As poets we seems to rise to a challenge, even if its self imposed. Some fine knitting here…
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Thanks, Alan. I get double my pleasure from Wordle these days–the solving and the poetry-making.
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Indeed the new orange porch is stunning. And to boot you got Wordle in 3!
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I got it in two yesterday and was somewhat disappointed not to have enough words to work with…maybe I should go for a haiku? lol
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That porch is so cheery! Love it!
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Isn’t it!? It’s like a big warm hug!
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The use of the words is beautiful. The porch looks lovely.
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First Wordle player I’ve found online. How nice to find another…=)
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