Tada! Wordle 1,638 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree -George Starbuck www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

'Tis the Season "I could have been someone", well, so could anyone You took my dreams from me when I first found you I kept them with me, babe, I put them with my own Can't make it all alone, I've built my dreams around you youtu.be/qSkN4EXhBR8

To lead a better life, I need my love to be here Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with a wave of her hand Nobody can deny that there's something there There, running my hands through her hair Both of us thinking how good it can be youtu.be/qBHSl2d-r0E

She's just a girl for me And I want all the world to see we've met Had it been another day I might have looked the other way And I'd have never been aware But as it is, I'll dream of her tonight Falling, yes I'm falling youtu.be/1n8fmigrk6I

The Body - @almaginnes The man fell to the ground in the deep hours beyond midnight and then, but for a few flickering muscles, was still. The blood coming from his body congealed, and he lay inside his own unraveling as light rolled [...] www.rattle.com/the-body-by-...

Truth

At least not that word Wordle 1,637 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow Take my head and let me sleep In the coolness of your shadow In the silence of your dream Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning For the things that cannot be Keep my mind from constant turning Towards the things I cannot see now youtu.be/2JWcP1sj1kE

Let This Darkness be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. [...] www.themarginalian.org/2023/01/11/l...

Grateful Dead Tapes -Ed Skoog [...] with my friend Jax. It was terrible, a lot of twentieth-century business came due at once. Bob Dylan opened unintelligible and sleepy as if reaching from the frost to make known "in life I was Bob Dylan." [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152056...

Now hear this, Robert Zimmerman Though I don't suppose we'll meet Ask your good friend Dylan If he'd gaze a while down the old street Tell him we've lost his poems So we're writing on the walls Give us back our unity Give us back our family You're every nation's refuge youtu.be/KQTucCHi0pI

Good one Wordle 1,636 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

To Know the Dark -Wendell Berry To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

Join together 'neath the mistletoe, By the holy oak whereon it grows Seven druids dance in seven time Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming Ring out these bells Ring out, ring solstice bells Ring solstice bells Ring out, ring out the solstice bells youtu.be/ZzpRwnTNE4Y

No one could explain it then and no one can now. youtu.be/h3h--K5928M

Fame (fame) makes a man take things over Fame (fame) lets him lose hard to swallow Fame (fame) puts you there where things are hollow Fame (fame) Fame not your brain it's just the flame That puts your change to keep you sane (sane) Fame (fame) youtu.be/NPX6JPHRmBA

Fame is a bee. - Emily Dickinson Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52139/...

Toss up at 3 but no Then Wordle 1,635 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Without a warning you broke my heart, takin' it baby, tore it apart And you left me standin' in the dark, said your love for me was dyin'. Come on baby, baby please come on baby, cause I'm on my knees. Turn on your lights let it shine on me shine on your love light youtu.be/oELqvSuhumU

Sonnet 19 -John Milton When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44750/...

Ho Ho Ha! Wordle 1,634 3/6* ⬛⬛🟩🟨🟨 🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Your daddy, he's an outlaw and a wanderer by trade He'll teach you how to pick and choose, and how to throw the blade He oversees his kingdom, so no stranger does intrude His voice, it trembles as he calls out for another plate of food One more cup of coffee for the road youtu.be/foucIIHg9iA

What I’ve Found Along the Zionville Road - @anniejwoodford A muddy slip hung over a tree branch by its champagne lace. A cracked plastic urn from Charlotte Crematorium. [...] Among those great poems chosen by @foglejunk for @salvation.south 's best of 2025. www.salvationsouth.com/southern-poe...

I donno how this happens but I'm glad it does Wordle 1,633 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Donkeys like to munch on carrots, Carrots don't like that at all. He-haw, he-haw. Listen to the donkeys call. youtube.com/watch?v=KSsp...

One of @Andy Fogle's picks for best poems from @salvation South this year: Carrots - Steve Cushman We wanted biscuits for breakfast, but instead it was expired carrot sticks from the Winn Dixie on 52nd Street where Mom worked. We crunched [...] www.salvationsouth.com/southern-poe...

Lucky day Wordle 1,632 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Turn around, go back down Back the way you came Terror is on every sign Though our leaders are dismayed All those who place their faith in fire In fire their fate shall be repaid Oh god, pride of man Broken in the dust again Turn around, go back down Back the way you came youtu.be/vtnGgCmU7IQ

In my brain I see your face again I know my frame of mind You ain't got to be so blind And I'm blind, so so sorrily blind I'm a man, can't you see What I am I live and I breathe for you But what good does it do If I ain't got you, ain't got? Hey babe youtu.be/yX-OkV_2z8A

This Light -Marc Harshman This green fills with gray, a kind of light that’s hard to breathe if you’ve had enough of this day, this moment, this life which is exactly the problem. We reach towards a color as if [...] poets.org/poem/light-1

Lucky day! Wordle 1,631 2/6* 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Simple Song Blues Villanelle -Tim Seibles Time is passing, I grow older, things are happening fast This tongue I use, these things I do will prob’ly come to grief All I have to hold onto is a simple song at last [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Sing a simple song Try a little do re mi fa so la ti do Do re mi fa so la ti do Do re mi fa so la ti do Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm living, living, living life with all its ups and downs I'm giving, giving, giving love and smiling at the frowns youtu.be/5Yc9LKyGZjE

Wheee! Wordle 1,630 3/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

No words just slittering along youtu.be/ZVageb9ZFLQ

Poem -Frank Stanford When the rain hits the snake in the head, he closes his eyes and wishes he were asleep in a tire on the side of the road, so young boys could roll him over, forever. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50142/...

At Winter Solstice, Iowa City - Stephen Kuusisto I listen for the footsteps Of my dogs: Little taps from their via sacra. When I hear them on the stairs I know the happiness Of Vivaldi! Borges, if only they'd given you a dog You'd have known [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159872...

On this day in 1865, the state of North Carolina ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. #History #Abolition #13th #Slavery #OTD

Getting into a good habit Wordle 1,629 3/6* ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Looking forward to reading poetry with @clairehermann.bsky.social at Eno House Artist's Den in Hillsborough, NC on Wednesday December 17th at 7 pm as part of the #weaveandspin Series. Hope to see you there.

The last of leaves fell from the trees And clung to a new love's breast The branches bare like a banjo moan To the winds that listen the best I gazed down in the river's mirror And watched its winding strum The water smooth ran like a hymn And like a harp did hum youtu.be/NC83ExDpejo

Ballade of a Great Weariness -Dorothy Parker There’s little to have but the things I had, There’s little to bear but the things I bore. There’s nothing to carry and naught to add, And glory to Heaven, I paid the score. There’s little to do but I did before, [...] poets.org/poem/ballade...

Quick three! Wordle 1,628 3/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You know I'd have nightmares And a guilty conscience, too If I kept you from anything That you really wanted to do But if you got to go It's all right But if you got to go, go now Or else you gotta stay all night It ain't that I'm wantin' Anything you never gave before youtu.be/2gRUTNYmwJo

Afterwards -Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say, "He was a man who used to notice such things"? [...] poets.org/poem/afterwa...

Better days are here Wordle 1,627 3/6* 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Storm Windows -Howard Nemerov People are putting up storm windows now, Or were, this morning, until the heavy rain Drove them indoors. So, coming home at noon, I saw storm windows lying on the ground, Frame-full of rain; through the water and glass [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42695/...

I can hear the wheels of the automobiles So far away - just moving along through the drifting snow It's times like these when the temperatures freeze I sit alone just looking at the world through a storm window And down on the beach the sandman sleeps Time don't fly youtu.be/01TOHG71BTM

Inter Alia, North Carolina Trees -Ishion Hutchinson Willow oaks melting into sidewalks, propagating grass with daylong jokes, or, listen, the American holly alive with robins flitting quicksilver through perpetual shadow as gray foxes set off [...] www.nybooks.com/articles/202...