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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 "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" by Charles Wesley: glory, offspring, light, raise, angels, flesh, life, die, sing, pleased, lays, second

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 "'Your Luck Is About to Change'" by Susan Elizabeth Howe: reasonable, running, point, interest, year, insist, pain, weather, legion, cow, camel, newborn

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

Whirligig 244

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 "In the bleak midwinter" by Christina Rossetti: bleak, stable, hay, lamb, frosty, worship, bliss, part, moan, milk, give, shepherd

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

Whirligig 243

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 Pond at Dusk" by Jane Kenyon: water, evidence, leaves, casket, wound, smoke, sometimes, clearing, heals, blossoms, comes, struggle

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

Whirligig 242

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 "In Topeka, Kansas" by Tim Upperton: free, wife, imagine, swat, hole, bicycle, fretful, bothersome, weekend, roses, looping, flies

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

Whirligig 241

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 the Oppressors" by Pauli Murray: now, contained, endure, grief, grapes, subtle, steal, crush, life, forgotten, twilight, aching

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

Whirligig 240

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 be of use" by Marge Piercy: dallying, mud, pass, vases, bouncing, strain, rhythm, pitcher, heavy, again, smears, work

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

Whirligig 239

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 "Rebus" by Jane Hirshfield: work, grief, stubbornness, failed, bitter, honey, choose, understand, become, anvil, leans, enter

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

Whirligig 238

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 Water Carrier" by Craig Powell: willow, say, solitude, year, stooped, ungainly, ancestors, absence, songs, following, moving, other

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

Whirligig 237

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 Horses" by Caroline Caddy: horses, water, release, smell, deep, sending, foxes, necks, away, one, owned, fear

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

Whirligig 236

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 "Ashes" by Geoff Page: grit, spot, confetti, minus, face, ashes, brass, bring, bear, tears, come, shelves

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

Whirligig 235

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

at THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "At Sea" by Ada Cambridge: keyhole, hear, menace, sleeping, phantoms, swaying, rope, cheer, creep, welter, quiet, winks

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

Whirligig 234

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 "Bell Birds" by Henry Kendall : moss, cedar, light, sing, fear, fairies, woodlands, wayfarer, pebbles, childhood, keep, glimpses

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

Whirligig 233

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 "Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop: dirty, careful, suit, assist, porch, doily, begonia, stitch, waters, rows, softly, automobiles

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

Whirligig 232

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 "You and I" by Stanley Moss: wanderer, create, guilty, particle, painter, potter, mercy, straw, end, follows, clay, all

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

Whirligig 231

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 "Magellan Street, 1974" by Maxine Kumin: until, apartment, stairs, flank, flamingos, kitchen, basil, garden, maps, sorrows, burn, cruise

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

Whirligig 230

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 Loft" by Richard Jones: bed, river, room, burned, listened, weaving, empty, dreaming, final, calm, spoke, arms

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

Whirligig 229

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 "I Stop Writing the Poem" by Tess Gallagher: fold, shirt, woman, standing, matter, nothing, hands, watching, bring, poem, somewhere, done

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 "Her First Calf" by Wendell Berry: fate, current, pursuit, welcome, seizes, water, face, always, eases, gathers, arrival, other

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

Whirligig 227

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 "Those Who Love" by Sara Teasdale: love, fragile, fighting, chance, fragrant, things, spoke, light, gardens, strength, hearing, pass

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

Whirligig 226

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 "Te Aro 12" by David Beach: road, bystanders, telling, turning, film, fashion, creative, cutting, location, scene, taking, backdrop

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

Whirligig 225

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 "Bees Were Better" by Naomi Shihab Nye: breaking, bees, board, table, parking, messages, wings, silver, library, dancing, café, barely

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

Whirligig 224

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 "Air and Angels" by John Donne: twice, flame, thought, angel, shapeless, ask, work, pure, flesh, allow, bright, wear

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

Whirligig 223

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 "Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps" by Sheryl Luna: bleach, blur, wait, humiliation, everything, games, dizzy, blame, smokes, poems, sing, fear

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

Whirligig 222

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 "Olives" by Donald Hall: listened, alone, prowl, doddering, skulls, fifteen, inscrutable, wrinkles, velvet, skirts, blathering, daughters

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

Whirligig 221

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 "Mother, Washing Dishes" by Susan Meyers: rarely, spared, finches, delivering, knuckles, greasy, mail, note, swirling, wanting, curb, news

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 "Wide Receiver" by Mark Halliday: glancing, hang, boy, frantic, points, darker, jump, impossible, balance, score, muscle, catch

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

Whirligig 219

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 "My Weather" by Jane Hirshfield: wakeful, tree, sugar, restless, hungry, mountain, air, sleepy, anxious, cup, hold, flour

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

Whirligig 218

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 "What Muskrat Tastes Like" by Jeff Coomer: lull, fried, swirling, certain, table, stews, reflection, grateful, lips, tastes, give, chicken

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

Whirligig 217

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 "won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton: kind, bridge, starshine, something, model, except, clay, kill, made, myself, hand, failed

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

Whirligig 216

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).

Whirligig 215

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).

Whirligig 214

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).

Whirligig 213

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).

Whirligig 212

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).

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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 "White Dog" by Australian poet Susan Hampton: meditation, sit, tigers, together, monk, cowardice, protects, paddock, learn, dog, leaping, watch

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

Whirligig 210

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 "Daylight rain" by Australian poet Michael Dransfield: daylight, drunk, hearth, forward, inside, money, fire, anywhere, words, sometimes, spacious, map

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

Whirligig 209

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 "Blown Fuses" by Australian poet Pam Brown: painting, tobacco, cold, memory, tangerine, stoned, wire, think, sad, way, yourself, symbols

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

Whirligig 208

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 "Waltzing Matilda" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson: waltzing, drink, catch, billabong, shade, glee, alive, ghost, tree, shoved, pass, come

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

Whirligig 207

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 "At the Beach" by Elizabeth Alexander: photograph, women, presence, skin, friends, language, air, bones, fine, weight, sunlight, brown

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

Whirligig 206

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 Debt" by Paul Laurence Dunbar: debt, pay, day, regret, relief, end, grave, release, clasp, thing, poor, loan

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

Whirligig 205

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 "Interview" by Dorothy Parker: admire, candle, sanction, complaints, wicked, light, overture, paints, word, erotic, shrink, far

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

Whirligig 204

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 "Making Arrangements" by David Keplinger: purses, attic, dusty, pass, rosary, shoes, tissues, window, stream, go, bags, say

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 "1941" by Ruth Stone: seedy, waitress, traced, smoke, jazz, game, grows, cracked, coffee, bones, darkens, disintegrate

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

Whirligig 202

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 last stanza of the book-length poem "The Prodigal" by Derek Walcott: dolphins, wait, embers, wedge, elation, benediction, fury, line, prophecy, soar, certainly, shines

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

Whirligig 201

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 first stanza of the book-length poem "The Prodigal" by Derek Walcott: train, move, factories, turning, book, blocks, wild, dusk, sent, framed, blue, brickwork

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

Whirligig 200

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 "I, Too" by Langston Hughes: sing, laugh, kitchen, darker, well, beautiful, brother, table, how, eat, dare, say

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 "Bat Patrol" by Georgia Heard: quickly, quietly, bat, sending, song, ripples, pond, moths, streetlight, invisible, night, chasing

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 "Hymn for the Third Meal" by Yitzhak Luria: palace, table, anger, husks, yearn, being, draw, drives, presence, wings, dogs, twilight

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 "Hello" by Naomi Shihab Nye: rat, message, shredded, shadows, waving, stick, text, bowl, candles, peaches, gone, slate

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