Welcome. This is the first prompt for The Sunday Whirl at WordPress. The post is titled Wordle 8 as many of you titled your blog posts from A Wordling Whirl of Sundays consecutively. I’ll be playing with the theme of the blog, and will add your blogs to the blog roll as you participate.
For this week’s wordle, I chose words from pieces at three relatively new WordPress blogs. At each blog I had specific syllabic parameters. From Richard Walker’s piece Do You Like It? at Sadly Waiting for Recess, I selected four 1-syllable words: bold, strange, sleep, and wish. From Pamela Sayer’s diamantes Life and Death at her new blog wordsandthoughts, I selected four 3-syllable words: devious, enchanting, alluring, and inspiring. From my own new blog, undercaws, I chose four 2-syllable words from undercaws’ inaugural poem, street art: lotus, kinship, torsos, and stories.
I look forward to reading your responses, and I hope you are all okay with the move. I haven’t figured out Mr. Linky, but if you cut and past the url for your piece in the comments it becomes a link. Easy Peasy.
Oh, the first time you post here, I will need to approve your comments. I’ll be away at a family event from 8-noon mountain standard time Sunday. Then I’ll be around all day to approve your posts and read what you create.
The Sunday Whirl 
Hi, I see from other comments your name is Brenda, so is mine! But, I mostly am called Bren.
I really enjoyed this challenge. Here’s my entry link for the Bakers Dozen:
Couldn’t think of a suitable title so I called it Wordle Words LOL (hope you don’t mind) I would be honoured if you would add me to your blogroll too. Thanks so much for organising it for us to take part in.
http://wp.me/p1wgSW-cE
Hi Brenda-I found you through Margo Roby’s Wordgathering blog, and I’m so glad. This was a challenging prompt–and I REALLY like those.
I hope you like my attempt.\:
http://dkrighttowrite.blogspot.com/2011/06/fallen-lotus-petals.html
This was a tough one.
Sorry it took me awhile to approve your comment, I’m out of town with occasional access until tomorrow night. Thanks for posting.
I tried using more of the words in another poem, “You Make Up Your Mind”
Mine is late, but I wanted to wait for We Write Poems, as the poem refers to both prompts:
Thank you for adding me to the blogroll. However, I’m a MYSTICAL teacher, not a “mystery” teacher. Could you make the correction, please? Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Got it, sorry for the “mystake.” 🙂
Brenda, thanks for choosing words from one of my poems; I’m blushing. (Is there an emoticon for that?) Oh, and thanks for adding me to the blogroll already. Here is my poem: Incomparable (WordPress) or Incomparable(Blogspot)
This is my first visit to Sunday Whirl (courtesy of this week’s We Write Poems prompt). Here’s my poem:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2011/06/14/homeward/
-Nicole
I’m glad you found your way here, Nicole. Welcome.
I managed to use five of the words in Boatman
Here’s the link to my poem: http://bit.ly/lEtdgF
I like the look of the new blog, Brenda. Welcome to the WordPress gang. 🙂
Here’s my poem: In Dreams
Thanks Traci. I’m glad you made it here.
Better late than never – http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/brendas-sunday-wordle-2/
I’ll be back later to read.
Let’s try this again. I like the new place. This isn’t my best wordle effort, but I had to write it tonight. Look forward to reading everyone elses. Thank you for any comments. It’s called, “Rain Check.”
http://henryclemmonspoet.blogspot.com/2011/06/rain-check.html
Hi Brenda! Another great new site for you. I hope you’re enjoying WordPress…been nothin’ but happy here! 🙂 Also…another great wordle. I love the challenge of these. ~Paula
Here’s my newest wordle: To The Lotus Flower
http://herwordsbloomed.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunday-wordle-8.html
This was most definitely Easy Peasy!!!
Looking good. Kind of an understated elegance.
I mostly played sound and nonsense this time around.
small bells ringing, with clear tones
I love it when you play with sound and nonsense. Thanks for the compliment on the blog theme. I like it, too.
Thanks, Brenda! You’ll have to let me know how you like wordpress.
Here’s mine:
http://lkharris-kolp.blogspot.com/2011/06/typical-day-at-club.html
Laurie, The thing I miss the most about blogger is my blog roll. It comes in by most recent posts with titles and a snippet from the piece. I miss my blogroll being the same here. It allowed me to see if I’d already read a piece before I clicked the link.
Otherwise, WordPress is superior, in my opinion. I did have to give up followers, but maybe that’s a good exercise in ego control. 🙂 There are many bells & whistles that make it fun. It’s all behind the scenes stuff. I haven’t learned how to tweak much out here, yet.
About a week in, I’m happy with my decision to move.
You can add a widget to your wordpress blog, which shows recent comments.
and they also show up on your dashboard – which needs regular checking anyway to make sure “spam” really is spam, and not a proper comment.
Thanks Viv, I’ll look into that one. I noticed that “pingbacks” were showing up and I delete them when I see them, but they are sneaky little things. 🙂
I just changed something under discussion settings that should take care of the problem. No more pingbacks to articles linked (I’m no even really sure what it means, but I think it will help.)
I enjoyed writing this little tale. Love the look here, Brenda.
A Lotus Dream
Now, I know how to hypertext, yay!
Pamela
You are amazing, you hypertexter, you. LOL
Here’s mine Brenda. I like your new blog, but I liked the old one too. LOL I am kind of getting the hang of wordles I think!
Peggy
http://ponderingspeggy.blogspot.com/2011/06/poem-nightly-news.html
I think you’ll enjoy the move; wordpress rocks.
I think I’ve watched too many movies in this heat wave:
lifetime movies
These words only wanted to go in one direction, so I followed.
Elizabeth
I love the new look: bright and crisp. Lovely colours. See you later in the week when I post. And, welcome to wordpress.
margo
Thanks Margo, I’ll look forward to your post. I’m a bit concerned that the link colors blend in too well. My husband who is color blind said he can’t see them at all. I think I’ll darken those up. I’m glad you like the color scheme, though. I do, too. It’ll go with a lot of the available wordle colors, too. 🙂
WOW! You’ve been busy! Your new site looks great! Thanks for making your blog such a fun place to visit. Looks like you’ve given us another awesome wordle challenge this week!
Thank you for your kind words, Marianne. It’s worth it to do it, when I read all the poems, plus it gives me inspiration to write something myself. 🙂 It feels good to see that you think The Sunday Whirl is a “fun place to visit.”
Happy writing,
~Brenda
Yes the words did. I did a poem. Thanks Brenda!
Meditations on living and dying
Here’s mine. Looking forward to reading yours:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/06/lotus.html
My second week here. 🙂
Here’s mine – Sitting – Watching – Sitting
May I just use a word or two, or is the expectation that every word will be incorporated into what I write? Just curious…
You can use any number of words, or forms of the words. The words are provided for inspiration and direction. Sometimes they all speak to you, sometimes a few of them just won’t wiggle their way into your piece. I hope you decide to join in the fun.
May the words open a path for you. I think I’ll choose next week’s words by syllables, again. It sure made selection easy. 🙂
Here’s my piece at undercaws:
tattoo
I’ll check for posts to approve before I leave in the morning. If I understand WordPress, once I’ve approved one of your comments, they will always post immediately.