words from wordle 1,954
DRESS gave this group a useful split between clothing as image and dressing as transformation. Diana leaves the dress on the floor and lets it imply the whole encounter; auntie jj uses a bright dress to animate a dry meadow; Debbie’s dress helps complete a sharply drawn character. Elsewhere the word becomes disguise, ornament, costume, or outright wordplay.
The strongest poems made DRESS change what came before it. Sometimes it revealed the scene, sometimes the character, and sometimes—as in Jonesy’s sheep and Mick’s meta-poem—it became the joke itself.
Diana Marie 2/6
SPLIT second response
Staccato breath and warm hands…
DRESS rumpled on floor
Lari 6/6
BLACK TOWER caper.
On PRIME. Starlet is lovely
In a GREEN FRESH DRESS.
Jonesy 4/6
The PIOUS shepherd
will SHEAR and TRESS the sheepish
to DRESS up the flock.
Robo 3/6
No TRACE of his gold
If he finds it I am FRIED
Must buy a new DRESS
Debbie Wilson 5/6
Sold CRANK, slap on WRIST
BRUSH it off, now hear my PROSE
From stoop in a DRESS
auntie jj 3/6
purposely missed PLANE
she danced around DRIED meadow
DRESS bright against grass
Mick 4/6
my BRAIN WROTE this DRECK
silly words lazily lost —
adverbs DRESS poem