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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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