Got there in four Wordle 1,845 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Some say they will and some say they won't Some say they do and some say they don't Some say they shall and some say they shan't Some say they can and some say they can't (All right!) All in all it's all the same But call me if there's any change youtu.be/Zkca9IaTTm0

Dolor Update @smallJones – respect to Theodore Roethke I have known the tremendous tedium of Teams, the insulting flicker of pixels on lonely screens aglow like disinterested stacks of mirrors, a dull display of dimensionless desolations. [...] sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archi...

Effin' rhymes Wordle 1,844 5/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bicycle Built for Two -Patricia Lockwood On the real azalea path we rode. I can tell you what it was like, I was a celebrity: Babies waved and dachshunds barked, I had nothing to do but be carried along; The colors were peaking, peaking. [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Happy 91st Birthday to the 14th Dalai Lama www.dalailama.com

It's so quiet in the ruins Walking though the old town Stones crumbling under my feet I see smoke for miles around Oh, it's enough to make you weep All that remains of the main street Up in the park on Sunday Dogs chasing and the children played Old man with his head down youtu.be/89NOgZ5Q15w

Have You Seen the Marvelous Ruins -Morri Creech We spent our vacation in an occupied country. The soldiers lent a certain charm. Still, every dawn the sun was an alarm announcing a few citizens had died. We walked the roads to see what we could see. [...] rattle.com/have-you-see...

Wordle 1,843 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟨⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart Then people gonna treat you better You're gonna find, yes you will That you're beautiful as you feel youtu.be/dlT66PZyquE

Always Something More Beautiful -Stephen Dunn This time I came to the starting place with my best running shoes, and pure speed held back for the finish, came with only love of the clock and the underfooting and the other runners. Each of us would [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Staying with 4s Wordle 1,842 4/6* 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟨⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/...

Ok Wordle 1,841 4/6* 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I, Too -Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/...

5 is great they tell me Wordle 1,840 5/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I know a place, y'all (I'll take you there) Ain't nobody cryin', alright (I'll take you there) Ain't nobody worried (I'll take you there) No smilin' faces (I'll take you there) Uh-uh (Lyin' to the races, I'll take you there) youtu.be/wv_V6J-maoc

Auguries - @aestallings.bsky.social The wilted season: peacocks drop their tails, The vines drop leaves And wear a bunch of raisins on their sleeves. The scoured sky pales. Cicadas grate and grate the air Like pencil sharpeners. Hope Shrinks like a bar of soap [...] www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wuz robbed! 1,839 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Happy Birthday Month to Roger McGuinn His gift to us is this song Oh Lord, You know I have no friend like you If Heaven’s not my home, oh Lord, what would I do? When the angels beckon me to Heaven’s open door Then I won’t be at home in this world anymore www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkde...

Canada -Billy Collins I am writing this on a strip of white birch bark that I cut from a tree with a penknife. There is no other way to express adequately the immensity of the clouds that are passing over the farms [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46705/...

Happy Canada Day to those who celebrate youtu.be/bOR38552MJA

There at four Wordle 1,838 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just out in @spectrum.ieee.org Spectrum, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social 's poem "Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla." Just in time of our favorite Serbian scientist's 170th birthday. You'll get a charge out of it. spectrum.ieee.org/poetry-for-e...

When I say Mothership, this is the ship I'm talkin' about. The Mother of all Motherships. youtu.be/Fgz-iQ5lSw4

Something Like We Did IV -Tim Seibles Wind in the leaves of the live oak next door and the June bugs click-click hard bodies hitting the screen. Couldn’t tell how much time had passed. Light from traffic on the ceiling. Late that sound [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Happy (somewhat) with a 4 Wordle 1,837 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Piano -DH Lawrence Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44580/...

Old friends, old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes Of the high shoes of the old friends Old friends, winter companions, the old men Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset youtu.be/HqeAjhEpYOU

Old Friends -Freya Manfred Old friends are a steady spring rain, or late summer sunshine edging into fall, or frosted leaves along a snowy path— a voice for all seasons saying, I know you. The older I grow, the more I fear I'll lose my old friends, [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151351...

I scored with 4 Wordle 1,836 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nice to see 3 Wordle 1,835 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me. youtu.be/BYyf2b3G6hw

Blanks shouldn't count Wordle 1,834 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

She dressed in the dark & she whispered amen She was pretty in pink Like a young girl again Twenty years married & she never thought twice She picked up her bags And walked into the night And silver wings carried her Over the sea From the west coast of Ireland To west Tennessee youtu.be/57lzfY1zqV4

In Summer Time -Paul Laurence Dunbar When summer time has come, and all The world is in the magic thrall Of perfumed airs that lull each sense To fits of drowsy indolence; When skies are deepest blue above, And flow'rs aflush,—then most I love [...] poets.org/poem/summer-...

One-a-these, a-one-a-these A-one-a-these mornin's come up, early Ya gonna rise Ya gonna rise up, singin' Then you spread yo little wings Yo little wings An-a take to the sky-la-la-la-lie B-rrrrrrrrrrrrrr Until a-that mornin', you're a free maid youtu.be/1VkA8HoB5m8

Happy with 5 today Wordle 1,833 5/6* 🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#thankyouforyourattention It's coming from the feel That this ain't exactly real Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there From the war against disorder From the sirens night and day From the fires of the homeless From the ashes of the gay Democracy is coming to the U.S.A youtube.com/watch?v=DU-R...

Happy as a Dog’s Tail Anna Swir Happy as something unimportant and free as a thing unimportant. As something no one prizes and which does not prize itself. As something mocked by all and which mocks at their mockery. As laughter without serious reason. [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48642/...

I've lost at love before got mad and closed the door but you said try, just once more I chose you for the one now I'm havin' so much fun you treated me so kind I'm about to lose my mind You made me so very happy I'm so glad you came into my life youtu.be/J_KBJbSTOd4

Yes! Wordle 1,832 3/6* ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people lookin' half dead Walkin' on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head But at night, it's a different world youtu.be/VVZAa5tRDR0

Summer Solstice -Stacie Cassarino I wanted to see where beauty comes from without you in the world, hauling my heart across sixty acres of northeast meadow, my pockets filling with flowers. Then I remembered, it’s you I miss in the brightness [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53598/...

Close, too close Wordle 1,831 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse -John Ashbery We were warned about spiders, and the occasional famine. We drove downtown to see our neighbors. None of them were home. We nestled in yards the municipality had created, reminisced about other, different places— [...] www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Negative capability? Wordle 1,830 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Fast Food Breakfast Panegyric -Jennifer Blackledge Let us now praise the Allen Road drive-thru, halfway to the office where I go to talk to other people on a screen; let us praise the efficiency with which I can purchase a perfect egg and sausage sandwich [...] rattle.com/fast-food-br...

Not bad considering Wordle 1,829 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TAAAAAH DAAAAAAH! Wordle 1,828 2/6* 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩