Words of Whimsy and Wit by Lferion

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Five rows in two pairs of half drabbles and a full drabble

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1. Waggle Winter Waistcoat Wruxled Whole
2. Wallop Wane Wander Waiting Wampum

Wretched Winter, Wruxled in your white Waistcoat of snow, embroidered in ice. Winsome you were once, when seasons were dreams beneath shining Trees and wondrous stars, the world Whole, the sea one span, and a duck could Waggle its way across the king's court without worry of featherbed or food.

Now the light Wanes, as winds Wallop weary walkers, Waiting for the sun to shine again, for the wretched cold to Wander away, taking with it worthless Wampum hail and ruinous rain, freezing fog, killing cold. Wistful we are for wroth and wanton spring, cruel and kind, bountiful and bright.

 

3. Water Want [Wallow/Wood/Wheels] Wain Walrus

They'd built the wains so they could be fitted with wheels for stone and earth or runners for ice and snow. Mud, slush and other intermediate states saw them wallow and strain with their burdens. Walrus fat on the runners made for easier going, though it did little to preserve wood and iron when axle-deep in ice-melt or fording the rare stream; that wanted Song to extract the water before it could freeze again. Findekano and Findarato together had composed the water-removal song (and the ice-to-water song and several others) but everyone who could Sing at all soon learned it.

 

4. Wasp Warm Wild Wick Walnut
5. Warlock Wake Wield Wandreth Walm

Warm summer brings busy bees defending their hives, heavy with honey, wild wasps, willfully wounding, stinging if disturbed. They flourished in Treelight, slept and woke under starlight, made vigorous by the Sun. What wick burns to make candles for the moths? What wind shakes down walnuts as sustenance for squirrels?

Stifling the season, the long light a weapon wielded against the Enemy, wandreth and woeful, they curse the Sun as a warlock set firm in defense of all they oppose. Let hope walm up like clear water, for Himring holds; wake to day, knowing Mithrim yet stands firm and fast.

Vertical - Poems of Fun and Fancy

Five half drabble verses, each of which can stand alone, one for each column.

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Waistcoat Wander Free Space Wild Wield

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Oh wander away, in your waistcoat of green
To wild mountains grey, free and unseen
Amid the affray, wield well your voice keen
As night becomes day, in spaces between
For none will you stay, Not High King nor queen
But sing of the May, what might and has been.

 

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Winter Wane Want Warm Wake

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Slow wanes the winter, yet quickens the spring
Old ice will splinter, the bluebells will ring
Warmth from far hinter the sun doth now bring
Where hail did a-dinter, new leaves wake and cling
What want caused to sinter, now gathers to sing
Colors a-tinter, bourne up on bright wing

 

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Wruxled Waiting Wain Wick Wandreth

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Oh heavy the wain, slow drawn from afar
O'er vale, wood, and lane, no mountain will bar
Well wruxled 'gainst rain, no wandreth doth mar
No waiting in vain to bargain and spar:
What would you obtain? Lamp wick, rose attar?
Such fine goods to gain from Dale and Rhudaur!

 

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Waggle Wallop Water Wasp Warlock

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Ducks they will waggle, and wasps they will swarm
Warlocks will haggle and curse up a storm
Water will draggle the proudest of form
Goats they will straggle and eat every corm
So wallop that gaggle, but keep them all warm
And hope you can snaggle the dragon named Orm

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Whole Wampum Walrus Walnut Walm

 

Oh let the light walm, the shadows subside
Whole cart-loads of calm will not slow the tide
With wampum and balm the walrus will bide
And nary a qualm will quiver or hide
Neath walnut or palm, nor fea sad decide
To lie 'neath the malm, but will dragonflies ride.

Diagonal and So Forth

A half drabble with all the words on the card and then some

The two diagonals as pairs of half drabbles

A 4-square postage stamp drabble: Words for Wally, the Wandering Walrus of Wales

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All the words and then some

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Wander in Wandreth Wruxled in Wampum, Wick and ready to Wield Wild Water, Wallop Wasp and Walrus in the Wake of your Walnut Wain, let Winter Walm and Wane, Leave Warlock Waiting in Want of a Warm Waistcoat, In Free Space Waggle your Whole store of Words, Wit and Whimsy.

 

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Diagonal: Waggle Wane Free Space Wick Walm

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On the green hillside there is a pool, where the water walms up from deep springs, cool and refreshing. Birds frequent that space, flitting over it, dabbling at the edges for the plants that grow there, swimmers waggle their tails diving for the wary fish that live in the depths.

As the day wanes and the stars burn bright through the tree-stems as though the branches were wicks lit like candles. Now the birds of twilight and night come out, making free of the water, hunting the small creatures that live there. Peace reigns here, and the memory of song.

 

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Diagonal: Whole Waiting Free Space Warm Warlock

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A warlock they called him, when he sang the fire alight to warm his hands, as if fire were sorcery, dark magic, rather than the opposite. It did not stop them from drawing near the flames, those small people, shorter than dwarves, with beards on their feet, not their faces.

They liked his songs, though, when he invited them to make free of the coals, and worked through the whole of the very silly song about Tilion hurtling through space with the moon while they were waiting for the tubers to roast through. Enchantment was apparently not in their vocabulary.

 

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Postage Stamp: Walrus Walnut Wain Wick

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KayleeArafinwiel asked "...so what do walruses and walnuts have to do with each other?"

Words for Wally, the Wandering Walrus of Wales

How is a walrus like to a walnut?
How is a walnut not like a wain?
Walrus and walnut are wick on the quayside
With names e'en the wise find hard to explain
Wains may be walnut, carry a walrus
Wrought by a wainwright, a wagon named plain.

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