This first week of October, Mary Lee challenged our Inkling writing group to write Wordy 30 poems, based on the Wordle game in which you have 6 chances to guess a 5 letter word. The game is quite addictive, but stacking 5 letter words into a poetic verse is another level all together. Inklings were excited to give it a try, but we were unsure how strict the rule of “Only one word per line” is. I veered off on one of my drafts by writing a 3 x 10 poem using 10 letters.
For more Wordy 30 fun, check out how other Inklings met the challenge.
Linda Mitchell
Molly Hogan
Catherine Flynn
Heidi Mordhorst
MaryLee Hahn
I shared this activity with my students. Here is one Avalyn and I wrote together about our classroom monarch caterpillar who is getting fatter by the day.
Reflections on the Teche 
Every good rule needs to be broken now and then! I love your cloud egret and your letters-not-words version of the challenge!
They’re both lovely, Margaret, but I’m especially partial to the first one. Way to go rogue on the second one though! 🙂
That cloud is amazing, Margaret, and your poem fits it perfectly.
Love these! The first makes me want to walk in a spring garden…I guess I’ll need to book a flight to Australia!
I love your herby poem! It makes me thing of preserving herbs for winter, which is one of my favorite seasonal harvest activities. Thank you so much for sharing!
Oh, I may have to try this with students when I sub! How fun.
Margaret, your egret poem may skip the rules but it is a fascinating wordy 30 image poem with a new twist. Avalyn must have been pleased when she paired with you to write to the new format.
Both delightful in their own “needed-to-be” way! I’m loving all the imaging people did…it’s hard to make 30 letters work hard enough without a picture!
What a fun challenge–I’m going to have to try this. I think your herbal one is amazing. The progression is lovely, and within such stringent limits. I love how sensory it is and how it goes from concrete to abstract, from small to huge. ❤
Love them all, looks like you had fun! Spread more of your “scent peace,” fly on “cloud egret,” —thanks for all and your inspiring images too!
I love everything about this! The verbs in Avalyn’s poem are perfect!
Avalyn’s “fatty sloth” is terrific, but I really love that “cloud egret” even if it does break the rules.
I enjoyed all of the poems. “cloud egret” is my favorite!
Was this so FUN to play with??? Your egret cloud is beautiful!