Word Garden Word List--Richard Blanco

 

Hello my little unread volumes! It is time once again for a new word list poetry prompt! This time our source is How To Love A Country,  poems by Richard Blanco. Your faithful but slothful, no-account, do-nothing hostess is only half way through her current read, and so I had to select something else. Delving into my poetry shelf, I found this one. I have not read it and so can supply no review. I only know that Mr. Blanco was an inaugural poet for Barack Obama. 

This poetry thing that we do is such a funny animal. It isn't like novel writing, or journal ism, or jotting down one's thoughts on events. Poetry is some mixture of dreams, imagination, hard truth, form (or not), rhyme (or not), and somehow saying the things that cannot be said as well in any other way. It is a way of making the universal personal, and the personal universal. It is the art of not saying a thing directly, but somehow saying it all the more clearly for that. It's magic, light as a feather and heavy as a jackhammer. It exposes lies even as it is filled with invention. It's a helluva thing and I love it. 

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 perhaps do what your hostess has not done, and read Richard Blanco! This prompt remains active until next Sunday. 

And now, your List:

audacity

bearded

cardinal

children

cure

eaten

erase

exactly

exile

hummingbirds

infinite

jazzy

lovesick

prayer card

sea

sissy-ass

sky

translation

veil

yappy