Word Garden Word List--Tenderness

 Hello my little bookhounds, and welcome to yet another Word Garden Word List poetry prompt! 

In my 20's, a friend told me that she thought my writing resembled that of D.H. Lawrence. It didn't, but her saying that put me on to a writer who became an immediate favorite, and one of his books in particular blew me off my chair and out the window I found it so wise and so amazing. That book was Lady Chatterly's Lover. Not that many books have fundamentally changed how I view life, but this was one that did. One line I especially loved was when Constance tells Mellors that he has the courage of his own tenderness. I never forgot that.

And so that brings us to this week's source, Tenderness  by Alison MacLeod. In it, she tells the story of Lawrence in exile, trying desperately to finish this book in the time he has left. He knows it won't be published, that it is too honest and speaks too clearly of things that were not spoken of in respectable literature of the time. She then tells the story of none other than Jackie Kennedy, and her efforts to see the book--which she greatly admired--escape the censors and be published for everyone to read. 

There is nothing remotely obscene about Lady Chatterly's Lover.  In fact, it may be the most beautiful book I have ever read. And now there is Tenderness.

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 if you are able, and then follow your heart. This prompt remains active through Saturday. 

And now, your List:

affair

art

book

broken

cows

daisies

Italy

lens

madness

memo

orchids

page

spirit

spying

stone

summer

tenderness

umbrellas

vulnerable

worldly