I start every day with Wordle. It’s a guaranteed morning pleasure…and an occasional frustration. I extend the pleasure each morning by gathering up my guesses and trying to create poems from them. It’s a low-stakes and fun way to generate some poetry in my notebook. I find the combination of words can force me to make interesting and surprising connections I would never have considered otherwise. Here are a couple of recent efforts.
Wordle guesses: alter, spell, whelk, wield
To alter your world
emerge from the hypnotic spell
of the in-and-out tide
of the banal.
Spiral your shell
into gorgeous intricacy,
like a whelk
wielding basic elements
to create complex beauty.
©Molly Hogan
Wordle guesses: grace, point, slunk, funny, bunny
Grant yourself grace
when you wish yourself
elsewhere
wonder what’s the point
and why you haven’t
already slunk far away
from the current scene.
It’s a funny thing
how we join the conga line
or bunny hop along with the herd
even as we yearn
for other places
or spaces
for oases of calm.
©Molly Hogan
Thoughts of the bunny hop led me back to happy childhood memories and a bit of a rabbit hole (ha!) on the internet. Enjoy!
This week’s Poetry Friday is hosted by Linda Mitchell at her blog, A Word Edgewise. She’s sharing a delightfully creative December mash-up! Be sure to check it out!
Nix the comfort zone 
I’ve been lax about Wordling. After many days away, I solved in two, with a pair of words that seemed a bit of a scary portent. (poem to follow soon) I haven’t been back…
Maybe today is the day to restart the routine…
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I’m pretty sure that if I had to give up morning coffee or Wordle, I’d give up coffee!
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I have found when I take the time to do this practice, Wordle to poem, I get surprising results. I love the image of spiraling my shell into complex beauty (the beauty that is so unique to nature). I fear that the Christmas season is often tied to a conga line of should, rather than joyful choices. Thanks for sharing. I’m off to try another Wordle poem.
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I’m so happy you’re enjoying “Wordle-ing” poems. I do love those surprising connections or insights!
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lol! Oh, that bunny hop. Makes me giggle with memories of when I was a counselor at a summer camp. We’d do the bunny hop around the dining hall. I love your wordle poems. It’s amazing to me that you can craft them over and over with such diverse words! Welk has to be my favorite word in the pile.
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I have very happy memories of bunny hopping, too! lol
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Molly, you’ve inspired me to try this. Wow, what good poems you made with your guesses. I play Wordle every day, too, and, less successfully, Connections. Oy, that one.
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I’m also a Connections fan, but that’s more hit or miss for me. Do you play Spelling Bee? That’s another daily favorite of mine. I hope you do give Wordle poems a try. They’re addictive!
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Yes, my husband and I collaborate on Spelling Bee. It’s fun, too. By the way, I started on a Wordle poem yesterday. Thanks for the idea!
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I keep meaning to tackle Wordle poems. I haven’t done it yet but your creativity with the approach inspires me (again)! 🙂
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I hope you try! I just write my guesses down in my notebook every day, whether I have time to fiddle with them or not. Then, I always have little word pools I can splash around in later!
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Your Wordle poems amaze me, Molly. You are so good at weaving seemingly random words into these beautiful, wisdom-filled poems.
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Thanks, Catherine. I have a lot of fun writing them. Occasionally you’ll get a word that really jams up the works! Like llama! lol
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Wow!!! Your two poems are so amazing! I especially love the “of the banal.
Spiral your shell
into gorgeous intricacy,”
So gorgeous and meaningful. I also needed to read your other poem as I often think I should be somewhere else and that poem and title, “Grant yourself grace” is something I will print and reread. I always loved the bunny hop! I’m snowed in today so what a fun way to move inside! thank you for these wonders and the inspiration to combine Wordle guesses into a poem! Brilliant!
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I do Wordle every day, too, Molly, & continue to forget your wonderful idea for poems. This time, love both, and the way the 2nd one reads so beautifully in those final lines. Ha! I have thought of the Bunny Hop in a long time. We really did that?
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Thanks for these two intriguing poems, I enjoyed being introduced to a whelk and its intricate beauty, and the whimsy of your second poem, transporting us! Love those swish-swaying skirts in the Bunny Hop! ☺️
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Love your Wordling poems. I completed today’s Wordle in 4! Are you into your streak like I am!
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