Wahoo! A two Wordle 1,755 2/6* 🟨🟨⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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THE EPILOGUE (OF WHICH TIME MAKES A PREFACE) -Visar Zhiti Life is less than hope. And, still, I write poems Though no one reads them. Perhaps the wind does not read the stars at night, Maybe the cliffs at the seaside Feel nothing of the fury of the waves. [...] thegalwayreview.com/2013/04/04/v...

Whee! A three Wordle 1,754 3/6* ⬛🟨🟨🟩🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

-Edna St Vincent Millay Loving you less than life, a little less Than bitter-sweet upon a broken wall Or brush-wood smoke in autumn, I confess I cannot swear I love you not at all. For there is that about you in this light— [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148563...

Just out of spite, I confess I’ve ruined three lives Now don’t sleep so tight Because I didn’t care till I found out that one of them was mine. Night after night time time after time. Done too much of both types of w(h)ining. Still wasn’t right fight after fight youtu.be/OzQa6I-DdBM

I am not in love but I'm open to persuasion East or West where's the best for romancing With a friend, I can smile but with a lover, I could hold my head back I could really laugh, really laugh Thank you You took me dancin' across the floor cheek to cheek youtu.be/oag3I4VRXyM

Aha! Wordle 1,753 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Fours forever! Wordle 1,752 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in Saint John's Wood And your father'd be there with her If he only could But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire Your old man took her diamond's and tiaras by the score Now she gets her kicks in Stepney youtu.be/btLUYReUGK4

Dear Tiara -Sean Thomas Dougherty I dreamed I was a mannequin in the pawnshop window of your conjectures. I dreamed I was a chant in the mouth of a monk, saffron-robed syllables in the religion of You. I dreamed I was a lament to hear the deep sorrow places of your lungs. [...]

More fours Wordle 1,751 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Watch who's knocking on your front door Now you know that they're watching What are you waiting for? Think you're young and original Get out before They get to watch your step Ev'ry day is full of fun and family spice They're making heroes out of fall guys youtu.be/7OR25MqPWuc

Caution. -Walt Whitman TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty. whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.002...

Caution. -Walt Whitman TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty. whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.002...

I'm just a four kinda guy Wordle 1,750 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum Dodging lions and wastin' time Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory As the daylight hours do retreat [...] youtu.be/yq7QVXwfLsY

Painting vs. Poetry -Bill Knott Painting is a person placed between the light and a canvas so that their shadow is cast on the canvas and then the person signs their name on it whereas poetry is the shadow writing its name upon the person. poets.org/poem/paintin...

I was due a two but a three will do Wordle 1,749 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Peonies -Danusha Laméris What are these strangers sitting on the table in their ruffled collars. They open, close, open, emit the scent of cracked pepper and honey. Magenta punctuation marks at which to pause. Pink commas against the green scrub. [...] poets.org/poem/peonies

Rhymed to the edge of death Wordle 1,748 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Orpingtons -Devin Johnston A pair of Orpingtons, one blue, the other black, with iridescent necks and fine, ashen fluff cackle through the dark, their damp calls close enough to chafe, a friction with no spark. They settle down to roost, [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

One very Fine Day youtube.com/watch?v=UF0l...

Larry the Cat keeps it real on Downing Street www.gbnews.com/politics/vid...

April Moon -Cathy Song The moon tonight is closer to us than it will be for the rest of the year, grace willing, the year we will remember as the Great Pandemic. Pulling us closer into its orbit, shining the light of its fullness into the room, [...] poets.org/poem/april-m...

April, come she will When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay Resting in my arms again June, she'll change her tune In restless walks she'll prowl the night July, she will fly And give no warning to her flight August, die she must [...] youtu.be/rgv0J5mip7M

I can't believe it Wordle 1,747 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

-Frank O'Hara The eager note on my door said “Call me, call when you get in!” so I quickly threw a few tangerines into my overnight bag, straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and headed straight for the door. It was autumn [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42671/...

I need you to pick that telephone Dial those numbers heartache I need to hear your sweet voice Let me you again I need you baby Got to be just picking up that telephone please oh baby You got your limit baby I got mine Six eleven, three 3 3 6 9 Please baby pickup that phone youtu.be/z7s9A3s8iv8

Ya never know Wordle 1,746 4/6* 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟨🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My first introduction to @john Sayles was this great title story in The Atlantic (when?). Worth your 20 minutes or check out the book. youtu.be/2ZobbxwWT9E

It’s coming yet for a’ that, That Man to Man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that. poets.org/poem/mans-man

Thanks @thepinkertonraid.bsky.social for reminding me of this youtu.be/R6Oq0aB0LQw

Okay Wordle 1,745 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The Library at Alexandria —Joel Brouwer After his wife kicked him out he began to date a Serbian librarian whose apartment was a block from the zoo. From her bathtub he could hear peacocks cry like cats stuck in trees. Sometimes he heard the elephant.[...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I'm lookin' for hard-headed woman One who'll make me do my best And if I find my hard-headed woman I know the rest of my life will be blessed, yes (yes), yes, yes I know a lot of fancy dancers People who can glide you on a floor They move so smooth but have no answers youtu.be/Z8T8pLAxCXg

What a way to start! Wordle 1,744 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Let me up on the stand And let me kick out the jam Yes, kick out the jams I have to kick'em out! Yes, I'm starting to sweat You know my shirt's all wet What a feeling (ah-ah-ah, whoa) In the sound that abounds And resounds and rebounds off the ceiling You gotta have it, baby youtu.be/Oeyt9wNYhnQ

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/...

Danced all around the answer Wordle 1,743 4/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A Lecture upon the Shadow -John Donne Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in love's philosophy. These three hours that we have spent, Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd. [...] www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44118/...

In the skies the skylarks rise Above the sounds of war Since that day I knew they'd stay With me for evermore 'cause nothing stays the same And no-one needs to cry No-one is to blame For the days we left behind youtu.be/2n1IhyF6R0U

Democracy Poem #1 -June Jordan Tell them that I stood in line and I waited and I waited like everybody else But I never got called And I keep that scrap of paper in my pocket just in case www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/155843...

While looking out at the blooms at Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities @weymouthwritersnc.bsky.social Wordle 1,742 4/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Peaceful skies in my lover's bed With a wide open country in my eyes And these romantic dreams in my head Cause once we made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat baby no surrender Blood brothers in the stormy night With a vow to defend No retreat baby no surrender youtu.be/tLeZ7EolBDE

Just about, just about to lose my mind! youtu.be/r9vPYStzWQ0

Took a cup of coffee, but ok Wordle 1,741 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

your tears were not in vain But I guess we both knew We'd never be the same Never be the same Why must we hide all these feelings inside? Lions and lambs shall abide Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again Build the peaceable kingdom Back again youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA

Your periodic reminder: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Fantasy -Norman Rosten Clouds are not weak: Fast as they form and fade only the swiftest wind can burst their sculptured seams! I have watched them mass in noon batttalions or at dusk become tall strong steeples tolling the silent sky. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...