Whirligig 455: Final Edition

For eight years The Whirligig has published a dozen words each week to inspire writers, but the time has come to close the wordshop. We wish you well in your writing endeavors in 2024 and beyond. Happy New Year, and productive writing!

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Habitable Nebula" by Timothy Donnelly: shines, back, birth, stars, act, blur, habit, ignore, middle, turbulence, gravity, daisy

Whirligig 454

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Sheep in Winter" by John Clare: sheep, snow, gnaw, pecks, hedges, storm, stack, face, shun, hovel, warm, meal

Whirligig 453

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Solstice in Truro" by Joshua Weiner: term, done, laptop, chill, weak, migrant, door, feed, restless, grandfather, gathers, opens

Whirligig 452

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes" by Travis Chi Wing Lau: smoke, time, flashpoints, mark, shared, impact, collide, cost, keep, remains, restless, sleep

Whirligig 451

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Corsair" by Cyrus Cassells and Brian Turner: remember, spool, whales, relinquish, white, treasure, map, discover, tangerine, dawn, ships, sheets

Whirligig 450

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Perhaps the World Ends Here" by Joy Harjo: kitchen, gifts, table, scrape, gossip, ghosts, laugh, umbrella, birth, pray, remorse, thanks

Whirligig 449

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS (11, for the poem is short!) come from "The Bluebird" by Alexander Posey: winged, bit, Indian, sky, strayed, hither, from, home, high, bluebird, its

Whirligig 448

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Miracle of Giving" by D.A. Powell: bread, hands, fish, wine, enough, feed, hungered, round, human, pattern, tribute, division

Whirligig 447

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Opposite of Abandonment" by Alexis Aceves Garcia: nostalgia, house, roses, father, threatened, between, grief, left, hospital, keep, circle, sorry

Whirligig 446

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Grow" by Ruth Ellen Kocher: broke, rub, shower, passage, pet, maybe, believes, happen, lilacs, rambling, abandon, rotten

Whirligig 445

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Another Night in the ICU" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: tenderly, blankets, checks, moves, wisp, midnight, rises, nest, place, danger, tracking, determined

Whirligig 444

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Let No Charitable Hope" by Elinor Wylie: confuse, eagle, nature, born, beset, stone, nourishment, austere, years, fear, escaped, smile

Whirligig 443

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Mujer Malvada" by Janel Pineda: waters, arms, brush, braid, myth, nails, blade, missing, body, took, safe, instead

Whirligig 442

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "To Mars from Arizona" by Alberto Rios: mornings, possible, taking, speaking, bikes, horses, song, tired, plans, quietude, happen, catch

Whirligig 441

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Jurupa Hills/Riverside" by Aaron Boothby: urgent, tremulous, rippled, words, claim, refused, lemons, hibiscus, thistle, birds, complicates, weeds

Whirligig 440

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Afternoon in Andalusia" by Sahar Romani: faith, trust, wall, stars, flash, field, see, spinning, wheel, vines, future, alight

Whirligig 439

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Rooms by the Sea" by Lauren Aliza Green: apartment, stairwell, pills, wanted, lined, bowl, dance, rug, manner, bees, ocean, hold

Whirligig 438

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Two Photographs" by Theresa Lola: eyes, frowning, knots, selfie, bent, cracks, therapy, prayer, cup, space, firm, pebbles

Whirligig 437

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Humming-Bird" by Beatrice Ravenel: tin, ring, twisted, print, melted, glass, darts, keen, spurt, shadow, dreams, whizz

Whirligig 436

Welcome to The Whirligig, a place for you and your muse to find inspiration. Each Wednesday I will post 12 words with which you may create a poem, a short story, or some other piece of writing. Use the words in any form, as many (or as few) of them as you wish.

You will be able to link your writing to this site anytime, for the link never expires.

If you'd like to contribute 12 words, please e-mail them to me: magicalmysticalteacher@gmail.com

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "Survivor" by Geffrey Davis: backside, warm, recovery, soothing, glory, proverb, laughter, thin, waiting, weep, kneeling, light