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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Word Garden Word List--Christina Rossetti

 

Hi, and welcome to another Word Garden Word List, where we use at least three words from a themed list of twenty in an original poem of our own. This week, our inspiration comes from Victorian poet Christian Rossetti.

Lately I have been exploring and revisiting my earliest influences and this is no exception. While still in high school, I came across this poem of Rossetti's and became a lifelong admirer:


She often wrote of nature (though she was primarily a city dweller), the longing for love, mortality, and spirituality. She also wrote at least two Christmas carols and also children's verse. She was the sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her father was also a poet. She came to fame with her collection "The Goblin Market & Other Poems" in 1862. Usually writing in a rhyming, rather uncomplicated style, Rosetti's poetry is some of the most moving I've had the pleasure to read. Here is one of my favorites, entitled "The Queen of Hearts":


Our aim here is to use the word list as a springboard to our own creativity, not to copy the style of the featured poet--though homages are always fine. So, without further ado, your list:

aloft
arc
chime
forget
goblin
grieved
grove
hare
hyacinth
iron
lily
lofty
maw
peacocks
riven
roost
shuffle
sleepy
spirit
thorny




9 comments:

  1. It’s Helen … I love her and look forward to crafting something for you.

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    1. I could I write anything intelligent, I struggled with the words, therefore I give you this:

      A sleepy morning shuffle
      to where our chickens roost
      lofty expectations of the
      dozens they'd produced
      fox broke in the hen house
      mayhem before the crack of dawn
      flock and eggs have vanished, gone
      gnashed my teeth, grieved the loss
      vowed that fox would pay
      den's in our grove, come out fox
      come out now and make my day!

      (sorry)

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  2. Ah, Rosetti is one of my favorites, Shay, and I love the sample poem you picked. I shudder at what that Muse-able word list may inspire :)

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  3. How comes it, thee, so often
    That when Fire plays cards with Blossom,
    The Queen of cuts always to the top,
    Her poems effortless, nonstop.

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  4. This is a wonderful choice Shay! Her poetry is lovely!

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  5. Rossetti is a personal favorite here, too. The world she inhabited wasn't a very favorable one for females who colored outside the lines, and she did a wonderful job of painting with her own brush.

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  6. Hi, My poem, Dawn Comes Through an Open Window, is in response to your word list. Thank you for this creative prompt 🙏💕

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