Hello poets and welcome to another Word List! I'm sorry to be a day late (and presumably a dollar short to complete the old saying) with this, but I had too many irons on the fire yesterday, plus I generally have no idea what day of the week it is, only whether it's a weekday or a weekend, and even that is sometimes dicey with me.
Anyway! This week's List is taken from A Coney Island of the Mind by the late San Francisco beat poet Lawrence Ferlighetti, a strong early influence of mine. Ferlinghetti was also the owner of the famous City Lights Book Store.
For those interested in reading something by Ferlinghetti, you can read a favorite of mine, Junkman's Obligato, HERE.
What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words from the following list and use them in a new original poem of any style, length or structure, and then link up and visit others. That's it!
And now, your Word List:
addicts
blather
bottled
Christmas
cornball
demented
enormous
falcons
fruit
governments
horses
laments
larks
mandolins
peacocks
performing
poetry
risking
spoons
violin
I'm thrilled to join the Word List this week. I admire Ferlinghetti and ended with a slight twist of his words from Junkman.
ReplyDeleteAnd the List is thrilled to have you!
DeleteSomehow I managed to fly right past this post! Going to give it a try .. Ferlinghetti is hard to resist. You too.
ReplyDeleteStraighten up and fly right, Helen! ;-)
DeleteWait! Wait! There's a WL this week but it's just a day later! I have been moping like you read about for no reason!
ReplyDeleteMope not, oh Mopey One. The List is here!
Deleteferlinghetti? the smiths? all of my favorite things... slightly out of reach? you're killing me. i copied the list, but i can't promise anything, if i do get something written, it will be very very late, hope you don't mind. awesome stuff shay
ReplyDeleteI know I haven't written anything yet but I will try to soon! It's a great list and I absolutely love the Junkman's Obligato, just fantastic! Funnily enough, it seemed like something you would write :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid it's not a poem, Shay! And I've only used two words from the list! Try as I might, I couldn't shoe horn in any more. Next time though, next time...
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