We’ve been having fun with Linked Worku — taking the day’s constraint words and writing a series of 5–7–5 poems, with one constraint word in each poem (check out auntie jj’s six part epic from 26 September!). That got me reading about Japanese linked poetry. Traditionally, renga and later renku…
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Wordle in 6! Now What Do I Do?
You know the feeling. Wordle in six. Yay, but for the worki this is a challenge. Now you have six constraint words to squeeze into one little 5–7–5 Worku. I always suffer when that happens. Then I thought: Wait. What if I don’t put them all in one poem? Introducing…
This week’s theme: presence
Notice what is here, right now—a person, an object, a sensation, a creature, a moment. Don’t use the word presence. Put us there.
This week’s theme: movement
This week we add movement. Bodies. Water. Wind. Travel. Leaving. Arriving. Falling. Rising. Staying still while everything else moves …