The Path: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle

Whether we like it or not, there is a path that we all walk…

Each week The Sunday Whirl invites writers to write a poem or short prose using some or all of the “Wordle’s” 12 words. This week it is:

The Path

There is a path, path, path.
where you cannot run:
from or towards.

There is a past, past, past;
food:
savored, not eschewed.

There is tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow;
energy wishing to become:
today’s view, walking.

There is this moment, moment, moment;
which cannot be transformed:
breathe deep.

Watch your thoughts, thoughts, thoughts;
pick through them, choose well:
do not replay them.

Cast all weeds aside;
practice is the best weapon:
on this path, path, path.

Randy Mazie

28 thoughts on “The Path: The Sunday Whirl – Wordle”

The reiteration of the key words certainly drives the message home!

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:42 AM said:

Like the Mets winning the other day!

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Stamp, stamp stamp – to skip skip skip…we certainly have to practice that..make our footfalls lighter..bearable..hopefully even at some point enjoyable..a wonderful wonderful wonderful poem

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:41 AM said:

Thank you.
And a wonderful response, response, response.
Stamp, stamp, stamp…

Randy

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I’m not sure why but this reminds me of years of piano lessons as a child… a fun read, Randy.

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:40 AM said:

Uh,oh. I hope it was a pleasurable experience, and not a forced miserable rote and resentful one.

Randy

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- Misky on October 18, 2015 at 10:47 AM said:
  
  I loved it; was one of few things I was truly good at.
  
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  - The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:34 PM said:
    
    I’m glad – and surely it was not one of the few things that you are truly good at.
    I’m sure you are good at many things – although you may outshine the otherw with your playing. 😉
    
    Randy
    
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You have winkled out a great philosophy from those words. I hope you have chewed thoroughly the food you’ve not eschewed!

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:36 AM said:

You grasped onto one of my favorite word puns in the piece.
You chewly did.

Randy

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- The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:39 AM said:
  
  BTW I liked your “winkled”. I had to look it up as i thought it was a neologism.
  Randy
  
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  - http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com on October 18, 2015 at 10:58 AM said:
    
    No, it’s an oldogism
    
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    - The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:30 PM said:
      
      I realize that now…. 😉
      you know, you can’t teach old dogs new isms
      (I’m referring to myself, of course)
      
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I enjoyed these bits of wisdom and the form you used to convey them, Randy.

janet

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:34 AM said:

Thanks, Janet.
How are you doing?
Randy

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We cannot move anywhere but forward… but just maybe there is repetition in all forward motion.. like a bicycle pedal.

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The Writer's Village on October 18, 2015 at 10:34 AM said:

I like that analogy.

As Harry Chapin sang, “All of life’s a circle, sunrise to sundown.”

Randy

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