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Monday, February 28, 2022

Word Garden Word list #15 (Millay)

 

Our list this time is taken from the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. I got off on the wrong foot with Edna. When I was in 8th grade and my beloved Tigers were in the World Series, our English teacher very pointedly collected radios at the door and made us hear, in rapturous tones, all about Edna St. Vincent Millay, in whom 13 year old me had zero interest. Moreover, the name made me think she probably wrote odes to tea cups or something. How wrong I was about that!

Years went by and I happened across something she had written and loved it. I finally gave her poetry a chance and she has become one of my favorite poets. Far from tea cups, she was a passionate, independent woman who wrote emotionally stunning, structurally fascinating poems. I hope that, unlike younger me, you'll look into her work!

Please use at least three of the twenty words listed in a new original poem--no haiku* please-- then link up and visit others. Link stays "live' through Friday.

*No haibun, senryu, or seppuku either. If you want to write haibun, go to Dverse

Your list:

ail
annotation
blossoms
bright
butterflies
cherish
dreadful
ebb
ferry
follies
forget
idiot
lily
lovely
margin
quarrel
rhododendron
stricken
swans
winter

8 comments:

  1. A lovely poet and a lovely list. Thank you Shay for this prompt!! 🤩✍️

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  2. A marvellous list, Shay. I am working on something and will be back when it decides it is done. Millay is an inspired choice. Thanks so much for hosting another iteration of your inspiring challenge.

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  3. This list, eight of the words ... speak to the memory of my mother. Lovely.

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    1. You did her proud with your loving poetic tribute, Helen.

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  4. I want to write seppuku now that you said I couldn't.

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    1. It's weird but hardly anybody ever does a second one!

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  5. I have a book of her poems. I should start reading them more often

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