Whirligig 351: Happy New Year, Everyone!

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "For the New Year" by W.S. Merwin: valley, dove, appear, leaves, hush, sound, hears, hopes, invisible, possible, tips, calls

Whirligig 350: Merry Christmas, Everyone!

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Nativity" by John Donne: weak, world, inn, room, stall, prevent, fills, holds, lie, need, kiss, mother

Whirligig 349

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "We Are All God's Poems" by Philip Metres: frozen, bowl, host, breath, scribbled, page, gaze, mouth, what, bear, taut, sings

Whirligig 348

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Big Clock" by Li-Young Lee: clock, face, key, saw, borders, safe, gain, forgetting, smiling, spilled, goes, calendar

Whirligig 347

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Private Property" by Analicia Sotelo: drink, swim, look, bubbly, sage, broken, sprinkler, music, joking, violet, towel, stories

Whirligig 346

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Thanksgiving for Two" by Marjorie Saiser: feast, plates, potatoes, rolls, bundle, tablecloth, bluff, storybook, wrinkled, wine, decades, luck

Whirligig 345

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "I Didn't Think I Could Do It" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: found, took, sat, burning, beneath, bullet, ferocious, filament, doorway, current, bright, crawl

Whirligig 344

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Moving to Santa Fe" by Mary Morris: beat, bed, books, father, farewell, far, mud, mesa, miss, strangled, seven, shadow

Whirligig 343

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Let There Be" by Manny Loly: summer, mirage, corn, pollen, voice, dwelling, ceremony, heal, wounds, song, mountains, laughter

Whirligig 342

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Love in a Time of Climate Change" by Craig Santos Perez: rare, crude, habitat, seed, taste, love, ripens, survive, rich, compost, sea, heat

Whirligig 341

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "In an Unrelated" by Elaine Equi: nothing, common, brand, campfire, stories, peckish, tweets, place, versions, tastes, see, always

Whirligig 340

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Song Sparrow" by Bruce Willard: sound, before, decades, porch, sparrow, summer, held, hand, bent, fingers, feathers, bone

Whirligig 339

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Saint Francis and Sister Death" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: humble, praise, dance, shame, partner, hut, heart, ashes, baby, doors, dinner, mystery

Whirligig 338

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Tonsure" by Kevin Young: find, beard, make, bowed, father, blocks, men, bitter, faces, buying, mends, became

Whirligig 337

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Urn" by Dorianne Laux: earth, frayed, singing, branches, trust, gone, doused, ground, touched, fingertips, seething, afterglow

Whirligig 336

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "[Sonnet]" by Carrie Green: grove, empty, frozen, blossom, sand, wings, works, veiled, recall, taste, pocketknife, steal

Whirligig 335

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "[Sonnet]" by Jehanna Dubrow: wonder, breaks, far, delays, detours, navigate, clear, light, leaking, wreck, art, split

Whirligig 334

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "1st Vote" by Kamilah Aisha Moon: choice, bliss, chest, side, hand, lever, matter, wide, final, margin, lone, counted

Whirligig 333

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Reckless Sonnet No. 8" by Kimiko Hahn: cry, whir, wire, strange, sucking, sap, dusk, sand, towel, argued, left, unlike

Whirligig 332

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "In the Basement of the Goodwill Store" by Ted Kooser: musty, carpet, rust, glittering, cough, curtain, garbage, hated, found, flash, thin, forever

Whirligig 331

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The River Village" by Tu Fu: bend, current, simple, nest, enjoy, touch, paper, hammer, needles, medicines, more, humble

Whirligig 330

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Cara Aceitunada" by Nathalie Handal: man, birds, inside, never, where, list, cities, mirrors, confuse, history, disturb, heart

Whirligig 329

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Earth Evanescent" by Maxwell Anderson: frail, wild, endless, motes, helpless, lonely, empty, drift, seeks, candle, choked, ride

Whirligig 328

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Perennial" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: root, perfume, follow, bloom, word, persist, fragrant, trust, act, forgotten, find, field

Whirligig 327

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "If I Die in Juárez" by Sasha Pimentel: violins, belly, ruin, protest, strings, broken, husk, frets, sound, brittle, bridge, keeping

Whirligig 326

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "All Dogs Go to Heaven" by Nikki Wallschlaeger: brave, limit, free, awake, hate, holler, trot, natural, making, bones, allowed, without

Whirligig 325

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "New Bathing Suit" by Terri Kirby Erickson: lotus, lap, little, memory, my, made, water, wrists, window, flap, floating, fill

Whirligig 324

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Box" by Kathleen McGookey: ashes, box, share, blooms, trail, pang, forget, heavy, writing, held, moved, could

Whirligig 323

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "My Father, Dying" by Joyce Sutphen: brutal, endure, nothing, home, hard, help, mother, work, way, beyond, field, reach

Whirligig 322

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats: worst, hand, word, revelation, thighs, indignant, desert, darkness, stony, nightmare, cradle, beast

Whirligig 321

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Looking at the Moon After Rain" by Li Po: broken, blowing, bright, sea, fan, hum, moon, clouds, shining, rising, stretching, common

Whirligig 320

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Blue-Green Stream" by Wang Wei: river, hills, advance, noise, darkness, broken, water, clean, silk, placid, curled, forever

Whirligig 319

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Logically, I Know the Circus" by Paige Lewis: mundane, bedroom, apply, act, need, famous, school, gravity, feat, work, trapeze, swing

Whirligig 318

Welcome to The 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.

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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 Merchant's Wife: A Letter" by Ezra Pound: hair, flowers, dislike, wall, climb, swirling, sorrowful, moss, leaves, hurt, know, meet

Whirligig 317

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Bandwidth" by Destiny O. Birdsong: last, total, cover, results, chosen, past, related, remember, ready, promise, sorry, breath

Whirligig 316

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Bobolink" by Didi Jackson: flowers, grasses, wings, yellow, brown, stained, braided, waited, worried, lift, take, strips

Whirligig 315

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Farm Sonnet" by Kitty Carpenter: barn, back, bank, stacked, steep, slipped, trudged, time, tirelessly, cold, crack, comes

Whirligig 314

Welcome to The 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.

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THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Places I Have Heard the Ocean" by Faith Shearin: throat, shell, hold, blood, beach, bed, carries, current, cat, rise, fall, everyone

Whirligig 313

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "When Love" by Alicia Ostriker: love, cuts, canyon, silt, revealed, layers, granite, washes, away, essential, carrying, floods

Whirligig 312

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Here In The Psalm" by Sally Fisher: sheep, grass, restful, thirsty, chilly, prods, trying, table, expected, drink, watch, wobbles

Whirligig 311

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Forewoman Speaks" by Kathleen McClung: stiff, silent, stony, signed, dated, read, resume, meet, admire, crosswalk, routine, bridge

Whirligig 310

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye: river, fish, famous, fence, birds, carry, want, smile, forgot, shuffling, buttonhole, boot

Whirligig 309

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "I Ask My Mother to Sing" by Li-Young Lee: sing, play, sway, boat, watch, rain, away, grass, water, rock, cry, spilling

Whirligig 308

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Thought" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson: swift, flash, rings, constant, chain, straight, order, always, thing, wild, moves, roves

Whirligig 307

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake" by Anne Porter: neared, wings, surface, rippling, lake, drift, composed, water, arc, glided, settled, nest

Whirligig 306

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Housekeeping" by Natasha Trethewey: mourn, mend, broken, soap, work, draw, chipped, catalog, drive, mark, threadbare, mail

Whirligig 305

Welcome to The 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.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Home" by William Stafford: father, star, light, tragedy, faces, front, door, came, near, locks, own, believe

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Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Night of the Snowfall" by Mo H. Saidi: snow, sluggish, fail, heart, moths, fireflies, dissolve, dawn, glow, smoke, blades, alight

Whirligig 303

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Ode on an Abandoned House" by Hayan Charara: wind, rain, keys, held, inherit, whispering, ants, worms, birds, uncut, overgrown, buckled

Whirligig 302

Welcome to The 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 anytime, for the link never expires.

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

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "A Yellow Leaf" by Alberto Rios: yard, ash, among, stripped, strident, enough, makes, later, day, mention, conversation, winter