words from wordle 1,935
DIMLY gave this round a natural atmosphere of low light, hesitation, and things happening at the edge of clarity. Lari turns it into a bedtime scene, auntie jj finds a vending machine glowing through dizziness and hunger, and Mark makes dimness almost psychological, pairing it with procrastination and tomorrow’s deadline.
The stronger poems let DIMLY affect more than illumination. It became mood, uncertainty, fatigue, or half-hearted motion. Even with some very peculiar constraint words—DILLY, DIGIT, FROND, BILLY—the best entries found a single scene sturdy enough to hold them together.
Robo 5/6
DRINK and you DIVOT
A DICEY and DILLY shank
To DIMLY lit woods
Debbie Wilson 5/6
Heading SOUTH; WEARY
Bent PINKY from BILLY goat
A barn DIMLY lit
Mark 4/6
STARE off, CLOUD in cup
DILLY dally, DIMLY do
It’s due tomorrow
Diana Marie 4/6
STAND poised on platform
Trains GLIDE — drop is a DILLY
Station DIMLY lit…
Lari
“Don’t LEAVE! GOLLY gee!”
“Time to sleep,” Mom said DRYLY.
Room was DIMLY lit…
auntie jj 5/6
CRAVE snack, punch DIGIT
DIZZY, don’t DILLY dally
machine DIMLY lit
Mick
the day did CAUSE her
to FROND dance to a DITTY
however DIMLY
leaden day did CAUSE
a FROND dance to a DITTY
however DIMLY