Wednesday, June 16, 2021

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.

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 "My Father, Dying" by Joyce Sutphen: brutal, endure, nothing, home, hard, help, mother, work, way, beyond, field, reach

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

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.

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 Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats: worst, hand, word, revelation, thighs, indignant, desert, darkness, stony, nightmare, cradle, beast

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

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.

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 "Looking at the Moon After Rain" by Li Po: broken, blowing, bright, sea, fan, hum, moon, clouds, shining, rising, stretching, common

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

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.

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 Blue-Green Stream" by Wang Wei: river, hills, advance, noise, darkness, broken, water, clean, silk, placid, curled, forever

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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.

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 "Logically, I Know the Circus" by Paige Lewis: mundane, bedroom, apply, act, need, famous, school, gravity, feat, work, trapeze, swing

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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.

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

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

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.

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 "Bandwidth" by Destiny O. Birdsong: last, total, cover, results, chosen, past, related, remember, ready, promise, sorry, breath