wordle 57 ~ a baker’s dozen


Greetings Wordlers,

This week’s words came from three different poems I perused at Poets.org. Each of these poems spoke to me on some level, so I grabbed the words. I’m typing this up early Saturday evening, and am unsatisfied with my results with these words. I hope things came easier for you all. Here are links to the source pieces:

Equinox  by Joy Harjo

Spring is like a perhaps hand  by e. e. cummings

Black Petal   by Li-Young Lee

Good luck poets and writers of short fiction.  You all rock!

Brenda

wordle 56

Greetings Wordlers,

The Everest Education Expedition, a group of educators, athletes, scientists and researching doctors,  is at the Everest Base Camp.   Two of the team members hale from Montana State University.  They also have a Facebook page with expedition updates and pictures.  The words for this week came from the teacher resource page for the expedition.  I lifted them from the text that accompanies Lesson 7, “One Mountain, Many Cultures.”

Coffee and you all make Sunday mornings my favorite,

Brenda

Postscript:  Magical Mystical Teacher noticed that “indigenous” has no “i” in the wordle.  My mistake…hopefully you weren’t scrambling to find out what ndigenous means….I think nothing.  :)   Happy writing!

wordle 54

Greetings Wordlers,

Pull up a cup of java and get to writing, reading, communing with one another.  Marianne sent us the words this week from Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath.  Take off with them, and see where you land.

NaPo is winding down, and we’ll all start breathing easy.

See you soon,

Brenda

Anniversary Wordle

Happy Anniversary Friends and Fellow Poets,

I was hoping for some profound words of wisdom, but family events kept me busy today, and wisdom isn’t coming. These are your words, sent in over the course of the week. An intriguing list, eh? Anytime you want to e-mail me words, one at a time or by the dozen, my e-mail is in the sidebar. It is Day 22 of NaPoWriMo, and I keep hoping for a second wind. Maybe these words will provide it, when I finally tackle them.

You are my light on Sundays, and I thank you for being here.
Write on, Wordlers!

Brenda

wordle 52 ~ a baker’s dozen

Whew! It’s been a busy month, April. :)

This is week 52, and so it will complete the first year of weekly wordless. April 24, 2011 saw the first posting of weekly wordles at A Wordling Whirl of Sundays. When I moved my blogging life to WordPress, I shortened the name to The Sunday Whirl. Thank you for your continued interest and support of The Whirl. I love having you all here.

Next week will be the one year anniversary of The Whirl. I’d love to have one word from each of you in my e-mail. I can’t wait to see what you send. I’ll only pick twelve, but if a plethora appear, I can always continue into the following week.

Good luck with this week’s words. I selected them from comments left by judges on middle school variety show audition rubrics. We are in the middle of auditions for the end of the year show. I’m the chair of our the show; it’s one of my favorite hats to wear at school. Kids are awesome in their creative element.

May the remainder of April see your muses busy, and open to your needs,

Brenda

wordle 51

Dear Wordlers,

For those of you who celebrate, Happy Easter. To all of us, Happy NaPoWriMo. We’re here, starting week two. I selected this week’s words from a poem by Joy Harjo, Equinox.

A couple of you e-mailed me privately about commenting this week.  I’ll keep it simple: as a standard rule of courtesy, if someone comments on your poem, visit their work, too.

Happy writing….I hope that some of you can create something hopeful with these dark words.  My piece doesn’t have much hope this week.

Happy Poeming,

Brenda

 

wordle 50


Happy Sunday Wordlers,

This week’s words showed up in my inbox with a note from Richard Walker who delights us with his blog, Sadly Waiting for Recess. Thank you for the inspiration, Richard.

“Here are some words I thought we could try for The Sunday Whirl. They’re all multiple-meaning words, words that can be both nouns and verbs. I’m just curious to see how everyone uses them in their poems.”

I am curious, too.

Happy writing,

Brenda

wordle 49


Greetings Wordlers,

This week’s words came from an article in Bon Appetit magazine. Oh Lordy, I struggled with these words. I hope something comes easy for you all.

See you soon,

Brenda

wordle 48 ~ a baker’s dozen


Greetings Wordlers,

This week’s words were pulled from the Montana Forensics Educator’s Association Committee Proposals. The last 2 1/2 days, I was in Bozeman at the spring coaches’ meeting. The networking is fantastic. I serve on the scholarship committee, where we spend an afternoon reading through scholarship applications and select the recipients. We gave out five $200 scholarships this year to high school seniors from all across the state. The money comes from our membership dues. What a great committee to serve on, eh?

As always, use any or all of the words in a written piece, and post a link to it on Mister Linky. Forms of the words are acceptable. If you want to comment below, feel free. I never close the Mister Linky, but do notice that poems posted earlier in the week receive more readers. If you want to receive the words early, I send out an email on Friday night. Email me (link is in the sidebar) and let me know if you want the early words. Use “early words” as your subject line, and I won’t miss the email. It’s likely that I won’t respond to your email…but I will add you to the group.

Good luck with the words,

Brenda