NERVE, HEADY, TULIP, STRAP
Month: January 2023
A Blow
WOUND came as blow to the shoulder, an alien momentum; he
SWORE, was spun off path into jungle’s thicket. Stumble becomes
ASSET. More shots ring out, he now hidden from view. He looks up:
MANGO, red, lush, hanging from branch above. Then sees blood blossom on his shirt.
ODE TO MY BURMESE FRIENDS
PLUCK the strings, musician chewing a
BETEL nut to your rhythm. Much like a
WALTZ your dancers sway, flow like the
CLOTHs of chiffon they wave- telling tales unlike the schism that brought you all here so far from whence you came.
Wrongly timed thrift
WOUND slow to heal after he
SWORE at her for spending too much.
ASSET, penny pinching may be in many circumstances, but
MANGO for an anniversary cocktail a worthy indulgence.
Lamech
MAN GOes on his way to
WOUND and scrape and steal;
SWORE to rise above himself,
AS SET beneath the heel.
2023-01-25 words
WOUND, SWORE, ASSET, MANGO
Cloth Trade
CLOTH merchant sets up in the marketplace,
PLUCKs brocades, songkets, chenilles from wrappings.
WALTZ of barter, point, counter-point above stitch and counter-stitch.
BETEL chewers watch, mull mystery: woven treasures having come a thousand leagues.
Orion
BETELgeuse burns red, the Hunter’s
CLOTHes stained from his prey, his arrows
PLUCKed from them. Rigel’s blue eyes
WALTZ for joy at each conquest.
2023-01-24 words
CLOTH, PLUCK, WALTZ, BETEL
Quordle Word Stats!
I recently completed uploading all my Quordle poems since I started (April 23, 2022). Since I covered every day, this also gave me the opportunity to generate a “words” post for every day since then through yesterday’s words (Jan 23, 2022), which is 9 month’s worth of words. See this category for the words posts.… Continue reading Quordle Word Stats!