We Write Poems said: Make your own wordle and provided a link
woodland, windmill, free, mellow, wise, saddlebag, prophet, bold, reaching, shouts, guardian, searching, lean, children, bare, rusty, buy, dare, condemn, gallop, dusty
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He dared and bought a dusty saddlebag,
A prophet galloping east.
Bold shouts of lean children condemning the rust,
Wise guardian searching the woodland
For windmills,
Reaching the mellow and bare country around.
© 2011 Mariya Koleva
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I like the choice of saddlebag over book, it forces me to connect as I read. I think that the brevity of the piece also makes the reader think more and interact more with the writing. Thank you for sharing it.
Yousei Hime – thanks a lot for the appreciation! I found that I like brief poems better, so I seem to have the tendency to brevity, as well.
A poem that employs setting to tell a story.
irene – thank you for stopping by! Yes, that is exactly what I tried to do. And honestly, it was somewhat hard. As was choosing the words for my wordle, in fact. At the end, I realised I have too many nouns and not enough verbs or adjectives. Next time I’ll put more effort in the initial selection, promise 😀
Your piece evoked images of the children for me. Well done!
brenda – thank you for reading and appreciating! I enjoyed writing this, too.
You’ve gotten a remarkable poem from almost nothing but your chosen words.
I usually go in the other direction: lots of padding.
barbara – thanks for the high opinion. I always try to stick to the words as neatly as possible. Yet, I’m afraid, sometimes meaning and message, as well as poetic form, suffer from that.
This had a lovely rustic feel to it. Nicely done.
Anthony – yes, in fact, it does! I hadn’t noticed it. That is how thinking of Quixote makes me feel. Thank you for stopping by!
(And I really enjoyed your post, I commented already)
You wrote a short poem so filled with deep thoughts..
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gautami – thanks for stopping by and for your nice words! I’m happy my poem brings about such a reaction!