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Friday, March 31, 2023

Word Garden Word List--Stephen Dunn

 

Hello. my small cadre of fantastic poets! This week we take our List words from a Pulitzer Prize winning collection by Stephen Dunn entitled Different Hours. Dunn writes of life situations which are quiet and ordinary on the surface and shines a bright light into the depths. His style is unornamented free verse, and yet it is very definitely not prose. Dunn has a deft knack for skirting the edge. If you'd like to read some of his more well-known poems, you can find them HERE. I urge you to do so. 

What we do here is to take at least 3 of the 20 words from the list provided and use them in a new original poem of our own. Then simply link, visit others, and then sink into a deep contemplation of the meaning of existence. And now, your List:

affair
blizzard
cats
clown
coo
Egyptians
episodes
Havana
holidays
knot
motto
narcosis
paper
perpetual
popular
radio
six
suits
weather
zero

10 comments:

  1. Just followed the link and read five amazing poems by Dunn. Thanks for the introduction. Don't know if I will be able to write this week, but glad the list is here.

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    1. I'm pleased you liked the poems! And i hope to see you come back with one of your fine poems, dear.

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  2. I love Stephen Dunn!

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    1. I've never read that first one. Wow. "There's an awful shrug and, suddenly, You're beautiful for as long as you live."

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  3. Hi Shay, I followed Misky over. Hope neither of you mind. I'm definitely looking up Stephen Dunn - new to me.

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    1. You are more than welcome, Debi. I will be by to visit this afternoon!

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