Word Garden Word List--My Dear I Wanted To Tell You

 

Hello my friends and welcome to another Word List! This time our source is an amazing novel by Louisa Young entitled My Dear I Wanted To Tell You.  This title is taken from preprinted cards given to wounded English soldiers to send home. They read "My dear ____ I wanted to tell you", They then went on to say the man had been wounded, and the wounded soldier would then cross out either "slight" or "serious" leaving the other to describe his wound. 

Louisa Young

The novel follows two couples, an officer and his pretty but shallow wife, and a pair of young lovers. The men both go off to the trenches while the women deal as best they can. WWI changes all of them profoundly. The book is marvelous, but also gutting. It's one the best I have ever read, but it also tore me up. So, recommended but with a caveat. It's not an easy story.

What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others, and enjoy your Sunday. This prompt remains active until next Sunday when I will post a new one. 

And now, your List:

artistic

bird

bitter

blue

circled

egg

end

golden

hideous

letter

muddy

narrow

Paris

ribbon

scarf

shell

sugar

sweet

trifles

wards

Anyone writing "sweet as sugar" shall be driven into the poetic wilderness by a mob of angry pedants carrying torches.