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Welcome to Sunday's Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "To a Child Dancing upon the Shore" by William Butler Yeats: dance, need, care, tumble, salt, yet, best, dead, bind, dread, crying, wind

Words will be posted here each Wednesday (most of the time).

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Welcome to Sunday's Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Litany of the Desk Drawer" by Barbara Crooker: ink, snips, believe, scrap, erasers, slit, dark, longer, pencils, thirsty, smallest, three

Words will be posted here each Wednesday (most of the time).

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Welcome to Sunday's Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Litany for Our Lord Don Quixote" by Rubén Darío: warfare, pilgrim, hail, crowd, crest, roads, obscure, tales, shield, falsehood, disdain, reason

Words will be posted here each Wednesday (most of the time).

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Welcome to Sunday's Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The River of Girls" by Tishani Doshi: murmur, surging, time, born, month, stain, tigers, breathing, mountain, singing, thighs, breasts

Words will be posted here each Wednesday (most of the time).

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Welcome to Sunday's Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site on Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Memorabilia" by Australian poet Peter Rose: ditties, slash, stuff, hotel, boxfuls, edition, purblind, borrow, sheet, bookshop, doves, friend

Words will be posted here each Wednesday (most of the time).