Just take your guesses from your game of Wordle and create a haiku. That's a short poem of 17 syllables, arranged in three lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
(Always start with the same word or two? Just omit those in your haiku... unless you like the repetition!)
Guesses: Vague, Freed, Seedy, Weedy, Needy
Freed of your needy
Embrace, which felt so seedy.
Vague need for weedy.
Guesses: Liken, Women, Woven
It's silly to say
Women liken woven baskets
To prosperity.
Guesses: Obese, Ready, Peril, Merit
Obese and ready.
You don't merit the peril,
So just ignore it.
Guesses: Ankle, Range, Caste, Paste, Waste
Caste system, a waste.
Weak ankle limits your range.
Still, paste on a smile.
Guesses: Olden, Meaty, Avert, Treat
Back in olden times,
Nothing beat a meaty treat
To avert hunger.
Guesses: Realm, Trust, Syrup, Shrub, Shrug
In the realm of trust:
No syrup on the shrub, please.
Don't you shrug that off.
Guesses: Empty, Trust, Thing, Twang
Trust is a rare thing.
Life without it is empty,
Like a guitar twang.
Guesses: Gauze, Shore, Belie, Twice
Standing on the shore.
Wrap the gauze twice around you.
Belie your true self.
Guesses: Juice, Under, Gruel
So much runny juice.
All pooling under your gruel.
Yum - Bon Appetit!
Wordle Fail!
My Guesses were: Guile, Enema, Dress, Cover, Tower, Joker
Actual Answer: Poker
Guesses: Haste, Roach, Whack, Khaki
Dressed in haste, oh no!
A roach in my khaki pants.
Whack! Scream, shriek, pass out.
Guesses: Logic, Handy, Hunky
Logic dictates this:
Nothing's more useful than a
Handy, hunky guy.
Guesses: Gaunt, Layer, Lapel, Label
Flip up your lapel.
Don't look gaunt; add a layer.
Ignore the label.
Guesses: Close, Plead, Gleam, Glean
The gleam in their eyes.
So close, I plead for more space.
They glean all they can.
Guesses: Pudgy, Glaze, Cling
Ham glaze, so tempting.
Pudgy hand reaches out...No!
Cling wrap protects it.
Guesses: Union, Straw, Facet, Batty, Tatty, Patty
A batty union.
Straw patty looking tatty.
Every facet gross.
Guesses: Shave, Blimp, Widow, Fruit, Unfit
Widow on a blimp.
Unfit to shave fuzzy fruit.
She's so very drunk!
Guesses: Avert, Spear, Smear
Avert your eyes, please
Smear of blood from the sharp spear.
Bad start to the day.
Guesses: Botch, Ready, Panel, Alien
Panel slides open.
Get ready...don't botch this up...
Greet your alien.
Guesses: Flout, Under, Shush, Pubic, Buggy
Pubic buggy? Shush!
Don't flout convention and talk.
Keep it under wraps.
Guesses: Fault, Enemy, Rhyme
When you fail to rhyme...
If it makes you feel better,
Fault your enemy.
Guesses: Rumor, Doubt, Pouts, Couth, Youth
The couth youth pouts hard.
No doubt the rumor is true.
Who could have spread it?
Guesses: Flame, Light, Bully, Jowly, Coyly
The jowly bully
Glances coyly at the flame.
He's scared of the light.
Guesses: Blind, Water, Track, Quart
On track to be blind:
She drinks a quart of whiskey
Like it was water.
Guesses: Cabin, Clear, Crash, Crazy, Crack, Cramp
Clear out of the way.
Crack! Crash into the cabin.
Blame my crazy cramp.
Guesses: Limit, Glean, Slush, Cluck, Blurb, Bluff
I cluck at your blurb.
Glean the limit of my bluff.
Pay from the slush fund.
Guesses: Rinse, Steam, Debts, Upset
Rinse away those tears.
Don't waste time upset at debts.
Relax with a steam!
Guesses: Knife, Blast, Stoop, Stoup, Stomp
A knife in the stoup.
Blast! Quickly stoop to grab it.
Loudly stomp away.
Guesses: Dance, Pouts, Lofty, Worth, Motto
Our lofty motto:
Every dance is worth watching.
She pouts hearing that.
Guesses: Goner, Funds, Canny, Cinch
It's a cinch for him,
Such a canny business man.
Funds are a goner.
Guesses: Paste, Gripe, Crepe, Elope
This crepe tastes like paste.
Don't gripe; it could taste like mud.
So now we elope.
Wordle Fail!
My Guesses were: Tired, Mores, Lover, Boxer, Goner, Cower
Actual Answer: Power
Sorry, no Wordle Haikus since I’m on vacation.
Guesses: Panel, Trite
The secret panel.
Open with a button press.
Oh how very trite.
Guesses: Vital, Bangs, Anger, Angry
Her bangs were vital.
They kept her anger at bay...
Which made her angry.
Guesses: Ghost, Bloom, Cloak, Flock
Such a pretty ghost.
Flowing cloak, bloom of flowers.
We all flock to it.
Guesses: Grave, Sandy, Happy, Taffy, Wacky
A sandy beach grave.
Just happy to eat taffy.
I know, so wacky!
Guesses: Reach, Round, Robot, Roomy
Roomy, round robot.
Such a practical design.
We reach perfection.
Guesses: Mourn, Blast, Wiped, Weedy, Wedge
Wedge the dynamite
To blast the weedy garden.
Wiped out; now we mourn.
Guesses: Glove, Devil, Liven. Liver
Devil dons a glove.
Guard your liver from his grasp.
Liven up to live.
Guesses: Stole, Click, Alarm, Bland
Door click. Alarm sounds.
Her favorite fur stole gone.
Such bland outfits now.
Guesses: Favor, Begin, Night
The cold, foggy night
Will begin with a favor
And will end in tears.
Guesses: Brave, Titan, Cloak, Assay, Papaw, Madam
Submit for assay,
From the brave, titan madam,
Papaw from her cloak.
Guesses: Fluke, Enter, Merit, Berth
His berth on the train
Was a fluke and not merit.
Still, you can't enter.
Guesses: Super, Swell, Steam, Stead
The door flies open.
A swell of super hot steam.
Send you in my stead.
Guesses: Pivot, Voice
Dim, twisty stairwell.
Tight fit for the big white couch
Voice yells out: "PIVOT!"
Guesses: Clone, Purse, Tepee, Grape, Agape
Mouth and purse agape.
Put a grape in your tepee.
Let your clone eat it.
Guesses: About, Under, Lumpy, Skull, Fluff
Under all that fluff:
Lumpy skull about to crack.
Pieces everywhere.
Guesses: Frost, Fugue, Field
Frost on my fingers.
Enter a fugue from the cold.
Collapse in a field.
Guesses: Fight, Laser, Sneer, Sewer, Sever
Sewer fight goes bad.
Sever toes with a laser.
Sneer as I hobble.
Guesses: Image, Paint, Vicar, Lilac
His only request:
Paint the vicar in lilac.
The perfect image.
Guesses: Towel, Duvet, Reset, Greet, Egret
We greet the egret
With a towel and duvet.
Reset his bad mood.
Guesses: Atoms, Lofty, Bento, Pinto
Nothing lofty here:
Bento box with pinto beans.
Pretend they're atoms.
Guesses: Above, Lunch, Dutch, Hutch
You can grab your lunch,
Above that lovely dutch hutch...
If you can reach it.
Guesses: Alien, Crash, Gabby, Gawky
Tall, green alien.
So gabby despite his crash.
And very gawky.
Guesses: Touch, Spoil, Drool, Droll
Touch will spoil the spell.
Then you see droll turn to drool.
So disappointing.
Guesses: Mouse, Order, Retro
A mouse in the house.
Order up a retro trap,
That will do no harm.
Guesses: Likes, Smart, Rusty
He saves rusty nails.
He likes putting them in frames.
Not a smart hobby.
Guesses: Evade, Ready, Heady, Beady
Beady eyes staring.
Evade his heady questions.
No ready answers.
Guesses: Purge, Lease, Spice, Shine, Smite
We smite those who shine.
We purge all spice from their life.
And cancel their lease.
Guesses: Fault, Joker, Drink, Brink
His drink was at fault.
Brought that joker to the brink.
Whoops, over he goes!
Guesses: Music, Drunk, Vogue, Awful
Drunk, the music starts.
You strike a pose - come on, vogue!
(Yes, it is awful.)
Guesses: Water, Blast, Aloft, Gloat
Gloat on the water.
The sails aloft on my yacht.
Blast the horn in joy.
Guesses: Flame, Sound, Unzip, Input
Don't unzip your lips.
Keep your input to yourself.
No sound, like a flame.
Guesses: Razor, Loner, Loser
Look at that loner
Behind the razor wire fence.
A loser at life.
Guesses: Savor, Mambo, Patio, Nacho, Cacao
Nacho with cacao.
Mambo on the patio.
Savor the good times.
Guesses: Grant, Nosey, Clown, Flown, Blown
Flown into a rage.
Plan blown by that nosey clown.
Grant me my revenge.
Guesses: Trial, Marks, Apron
Food competition.
See the marks of the trial
There on her apron.
Guesses: Noise, Primo
What makes ugly noise
Sound like its world-class music?
Primo herb, of course!
Guesses: Drive, Plate, Atone
One dark, rainy night,
Drive through a plate glass window.
Now I must atone.
Guesses: Store, Moral, Color, Donor
What's in store for you
Will color your mood all day:
A moral donor.
Guesses: Tries, Catch, Bloat, Float
Balloons float away.
Can't fight our bloat to catch them.
No one even tries.
Guesses: Under, Seats, Whose, Loose, Goose
Whose loose goose was it
That left this little "present"
Under all our seats?
Guesses: Upset, Tepid, Piety
Yes I am upset
By your tepid piety.
Just be more pious!
Guesses: Begin, Right, Girth
Upset by my girth.
Vow to begin a diet.
Right after this meal.
Guesses: Whale, Drama, Crass, Train, Trait
That shameful, crass trait,
Causing drama on a train.
Whale of a good time!
Guesses: Sharp, Mound, Blood, Flood
The sharp knife cuts deep.
Flood the catcher's mound with blood
Baseball is scary!
Guesses: Built, Level, Slash, Flood, Gloom
House built on the shore.
The flood will slash and level.
Leaving only gloom.
Guesses: Twice, Petty, Depth
The depth you sink to,
Being petty twice as long
As anyone else.
Guesses: Proud, Wrong, Croak, Troll, Broth, Froth
Is it wrong I'm proud
A troll can croak from broth froth
That I created?
Guesses: Sorry, Lease, Phase
Sorry for this news,
But your lease has been cancelled.
A new phase begins.
Guesses: Thorn, Whose, Shows, Showy
Life's winner will be
The person whose showy thorn
Shows the sharpest point.
Guesses: Field, Treat, Wreck, Creak
Please field this question:
Was the creak in the bathroom
A wreck or a treat?
Guesses: Brain, Sonar, Manor
Outside his manor,
Brain filled with thoughts of sonar,
Lounging in the sun.
Guesses: Drain, Ample, Atoll
My favorite atoll
Has an ample center hole
That looks like a drain.
Guesses: Right, Found, Scoup, Bayou
Scoup to the bayou.
Found the perfect spot right there.
For 'gator watching.
Guesses: House, Treat, Greet, Crept
Crept up to the house.
No treat in sight to greet me.
Well, time for a trick!
Guesses: Irate, Stair, Tiara
Irate, she storms off.
Tiara hurled to the ground
Bounces off the stair.
Guesses: Drunk, Agape, Axels, Asset
Drunk with mouth agape.
Crushed fender, broken axels.
Every asset gone.
Guesses: Leapt, Young, Couch, Vouch
Don't vouch for the young.
Just when I let my guard down,
One leapt on my couch.
Guesses: While, Annul, Aloud, Album
Thinking aloud now:
While an album would be nice...
We have to annul.
Guesses: Proud, Tease, Hinge
Always the same taunt: "
Too proud to oil a hinge, eh?"
Such fun to tease him.
Guesses: Phone, Toner, Money
His fingers fumbling...
Eek! Spilled toner on the phone.
Money will fix this.
Guesses: Bleak, Groan, Radar, Scram, Scrap
No scrap of hope left,
They groan at the bleak radar.
Tell them all to scram!
Guesses: Route, Saver, Gamer
As the saying goes:
A gamer, not a saver.
Which route will you choose?
Guesses: Tinge, Group, Gassy, Glass
Such a gassy group.
All with egos made of glass...
And a tinge of fear.
Guesses: Debut, Locus, Scour
Debut your new hat.
Find the locus of your fear
And scour it away.
Guesses: Waste, Melon, Needy, Bench, Being
Such a waste of time!
Being needy on a bench,
Eating a melon.
Guesses: Trade, Dodge, Dense, Dexie, Deuce, Delve
Trade for a dexie?
Only the dense use a deuce.
Don't you dodge: delve deep!
Guesses: Power, Slice, Devil, Field, Yield
You slice the field bare.
Devil power drives you on.
He won't let you yield.
Guesses: White, Often, Metal
White noise as I sleep.
Often dream of metal sheep.
Their bleats are tinny.
Guesses: Cloud, Heart, Misty, Bitsy, Tipsy
Itsy, bitsy heart.
Beats faster; feeling tipsy!
Sad cloud, so misty.
Guesses: Album, Slurp, Slush, Slunk, Slung
Album slung up high.
I slunk below, past the slush.
Stop to have a slurp.
Guesses: Radio, Large, Farce
The large man dances
To songs on the radio.
Farce or not, it's fun.
"I'm not going to write a Haiku using the word 'negro'!" That's what I said to myself yesterday after I made that ill-advised guess on the Wordle puzzle. I only guessed it because it was the only word I could think of that fit the clues of my two placed vowels and so many consonants ruled out. I eventually just gave up, which was a first for me. I've failed to guess the word, but never just given up. My guesses were: Douse, Below, Tempo, Negro. <insert record scratch sound>
Guesses: Dealt, Wives, Spice, Shine
The wives shine so bright.
Dealt a rough hand, but they thrive.
The secret is...spice!
Wordle Fail!
My Guesses were: Rapid, Fault, Maven, Banjo, Hanky, Nancy
Actual Answer: Canny
I wasn't even close to guessing the right answer, as my desperate "Nancy" guess shows. Although...it having been mother's day and my mom's name being Nancy, that would have been spooky if it were the answer.
Guesses: Angel, Doubt, Midst
My meemaw told me:
In the midst of a crisis
Don't doubt your angel.
Guesses: Vapor, Laugh, Badge
I laugh at the badge.
Its power over me is
As weak as vapor.
Guesses: Plaid, Envoy, Other, Homer
Homer is so bold.
No other envoy wears plaid
Quite as well as him.
Guesses: Bound, Wince, Train
Bound on the train tracks.
I wince as the whistle blows.
I am thunderstruck!
Guesses: Haiku, Hairy
He wrote a haiku
Full of his hopes and wishes
To be more hairy.
(This was the best day to have an inspiration to use "Haiku" as my starter word!)
Guesses: Intel, Track, Forty, Story
Drinkin' a forty,
Gettin' intel at the track.
That's quite the story.
Well, it finally happened: I lost track of my Sunday and missed doing the Wordle puzzle entirely! Whoops.
Guesses: Awful, Blame, Valid, Larva
In my heart of hearts,
An awful but valid thought:
Blame all the larva.
Guesses: Daily, Crate, Trash
Full of frustration.
Trash that crate almost daily.
Sorry not sorry.
Guesses: Reach, Deity, Melty, Zesty
Hungry deity.
Reach for the zesty ice cream.
Melty, but who cares!
Guesses: Found, Groan, Shown
Shown the evidence
He let out a groan. Dear lord...
They found the body.
Guesses: Vogue, Ready, Bench, Heist
The next heist we do,
Jump on a bench; strike a pose...
Get ready to Vogue.
Guesses: Slice, Wrest, Meows, Askew
Wrest the cat away.
Claws slice and meows ring out.
My hat sits askew.
Guesses: Drole, Saver, Merry, Twerp, Inert
Such a merry twerp.
So drole, he leaves me inert.
What a life-saver!
Guesses: Shape, Guide, Olive
They guide their olive
With precision and great skill
To the perfect shape.
Guesses: Foist, Adept, Kaput, Plant
Adept at scheming,
She will foist her kaput plant
Onto some sucker.
Guesses: Valid, Ditto, Guide*, Oxide
Ditto on the guide
To use iron oxide as
A valid hair dye.
* I was really struggling after "Ditto" and in my desperation didn't realize I was making a guess that didn't have an "o" in it. (I try to play by the hard rules.) But I don't think I would have gotten to Oxide without something like the Guide guess!
Guesses: Dealt, Gassy, Mango, Cargo
In the cargo hold
He was dealt a tragic blow:
A gassy mango.
Guesses: Unity, Layer, Foyer
A layer of dust.
The foyer: quiet and still.
Unity for all.
Guesses: Lapse, Claim, Flair
With dramatic flair,
Claim a lapse in your thinking
To explain your shirt.
Guesses: Rinse, Place, Maple, Ample
Rinse away your cares,
With ample maple syrup...
There's no place like home.
Guesses: Humid, Chase, Cheer, Cheek
Cheer him in the chase.
Watch sweat running down his cheek.
Goddamn, it's humid!
Guesses: Pride, Smoke, Shame
Shame he has to smoke.
Such a vile, filthy habit.
Pride won't let him quit.
Guesses: Afoul, Scent, Hence, Wince, Mince
Afoul of the law.
Wince at the scent of danger.
Hence, don't mince your words.
Guesses: Voice, Class, Crumb, Chunk
Cake chunks crumbling.
Crumbs abound; no class at all.
The voice of rebuke.
Guesses: Touch, Money, Loyal, Royal
Money cannot touch
His loyal, royal subject...
He says you'll be back.
Guesses: Pluck, Round, Squad
With a little pluck
My squad can force this square peg
Into that round hole.
Guesses: Value, Trail, Slack, Black
Staying in the black?
Don't slack on the value trail.
Keep bargain-hunting!
Guesses: Groan, Smart, Stair
The stair gave a groan
At the first touch of his weight.
Smart time to diet.
Guesses: Heist, Sleep, Smoke, Scare
The heist had a scare:
Smoke pouring from the building.
Sleep away the fear.
Guesses: Brace, Apron, Moral, Horah, Foray
Brace for the moral:
The horah in an apron
Is quite the foray.
Guesses: Fault, Awash, Bread, Comma
We fault the novel,
Awash with stories of bread
But just one comma.
Guesses: Laugh, Salty, Fatal, Datal, Katal, Natal
Can I rhyme "katal?"
Sure: Fatal, natal ... datal!
(Insert salty laugh.)
Guesses: Dream, Waist, Shawl
Wasp waist proportions.
Shawl wrapping bony shoulders.
Dream... or a nightmare?
Guesses: Clean, Pesky, Fever, Fewer
That pesky fever.
The trick to fewer of them:
Just keep your hands clean.
Guesses: Swipe, Grape, Trope
Feelings boil over.
Swipe the grape juice to the floor!
Boring trope for rage.
Guesses: Trash, Moist, Snout
Lid lifted gently.
A moist snout snuffles the trash.
Stealth dog finds a snack!
Guesses: Large, Lotus, Loopy, Lolly, Lowly
Eat that large lolly.
Now eat that lowly lotus.
Feeling loopy yet?
Guesses: Doubt, Other, Stoke, Stone, Stove
You stoke the stone stove.
The other is full of doubt
About your prowess.
Guesses: Leapt, Chalk, Shall
They leapt from the roof.
We shall just chalk that up to
Being in a rush.
Guesses: Alien, Trunk, Sound, Pound, Found
Never mind the sound.
Just pound on this trunk I found.
Inside: an alien!
Guesses: Inert, Sound, Mangy, Nymph
Crumpled on the tile floor,
The inert, mangy nymph sleeps.
No sound can wake her.
Guesses: Alive, Needy, Hokey, Epoxy
Alive and needy
Means broken heart epoxy.
It's hokey, but true.
Guesses: Input, Depot
Would love your input
About a few odds and ends...
In the arms depot.
Guesses: Bleak, Preen, Diets, Quest, Chest
Quest for a small chest.
The diets are bleak and dreary.
At the end, I preen.
Guesses: Cloud, Umber, Inure, Purse, Purge
Umber color cloud.
Inure myself to the pain.
I must purge my purse.
Guesses: Fault, Hovel, Slosh
Inside their hovel,
I slosh the drink in my glass.
Is that spill my fault?
Guesses: Cheat, There, Their
There they go again:
Cheat and steal their way through life.
Karma will catch them.
Guesses: Prize, Learn, Never, Renew
Never forget this:
If you learn to renew hope,
That will be your prize.
Guesses: Peach, Talon, Allow
You should not allow
The talon of an eagle
To grab your last peach.
Guesses: Pound, Sauce, Saute
Your dream meal awaits:
Sauce filled with a veggie saute.
Boxed wine by the pound.
Guesses: Black, Other, Douse, Movie
With black hearts and souls,
Douse that other flame of hope
And say: No movie!
Guesses: Blown, Hedge, Kites, Cuter, Cater
What's cuter than this:
Kites blown into the hedge.
Cater to mischief!
Guesses: Trace, Tease
Tease that hair up high.
Then with a trace of a smile,
Enter the filled room.
Guesses: Pause, Swell, Shelf, Smelt
Pause at that swell shelf.
Undeniable beauty.
Still... Smelt it into slag!
Guesses: Patch, Cumin, Ulcer, Focus
Focus on this fail:
He tried to patch his ulcer
by eating cumin.
Guesses: Dirty, Today
The dirty birdy
Lands on a pile of offal.
Today we eat well.
Guesses: Frame, Candy, Hatch, Watch
Her hands on the frame
She will watch the hatch until...
The candy appears!
Guesses: Faith, Maybe, Sauce, Parse, Lapse
Her faith is, maybe,
Hard to parse given the lapse
of that awful sauce.
Guesses: Train, Mount, Monty
They train day and night
To mount a show worth viewing.
Ooh: the full monty!
Guesses: Sword, Swipe, Sweet
Grab his attention
With a swipe of the sword, then:
Whisper sweet nothings.
Guesses: Blind, Tread, Guard, Shard, Hoard
The cats guard and hoard,
That shard of sun on the tread.
Blind to each other.
Guesses: Blend, Flask, Pluto, Cloth
Grab a cloth blanket,
Blend a drink for your flask and
Gaze upon Pluto.
Wordle Fail! I didn't guess it.
My guesses were: Wreck, Error, Frame, Gripe, Drive, Urine.
For the last guess, I was debating between urine (what I picked) and brine (which was the correct answer), and I went with urine thinking a more unlikely word would be the right one. Damn you, urine, with your tantalizing pull!
Guesses: Speak, Treat, Clean, Ahead
You can speak the truth
Ahead of everyone else,
With a clean conscience.
Guesses: Point, Woman, Moron, Mourn
With an evil smile,
The woman got to her point:
Don't mourn a moron.
Guesses: Saved, Packs, Nasty
She packs a small bag.
Saved from a nasty good-bye,
She leaves while he sleeps.
Guesses: Drown, Right, Rules, Rupee
It's not fair or right,
But when we break all the rules,
We drown in rupee.
Guesses: Great, Epoch, Chose, Choke
We happily chose
To choke down this great epoch.
That was a mistake!
Guesses: Urban, Plane, Thank, Chant
Keep the plane aloft,
With a chant to thank the gods.
Urban myth? Perhaps.
Guesses: Aisle, Still, Swill, Spill
Down the aisle does spill
The swill from that broken still.
Sticky floor to clean.
Guesses: Reign, Silly, Widow, Livid, Vivid
The widow, livid
To find her vivid reign was
But a silly dream.
Guesses: House, Drove, Alone, Elope, Bloke
The bloke sits alone.
He drove her out of the house
With the word: elope?
Guesses: Reach, Freed, Write, Trope, Trove
My trove of tropes:
I reach for them as I write,
Freed of convention.
Guesses: Smile, Taunt, Thorn
Your smile is a taunt.
It hides danger with beauty...
a thorn on a rose.
Guesses: Yield, Heats, Other
Anger heats the soul,
Yet the other will not yield--
Eternal deadlock.
Guesses: Dream, Banks, Laugh, Tacit
Unbeknownst to all,
She banks a laugh and a dream
for the tacit future
Guesses: Pleat, Longs, Silky, Swill
With a swill of ale
He longs for a silky pleat,
Amidst the burlap.
Guesses: Grief, Eagle, Dodge
Eagle soaring high.
Lightening from the heavens...
Dodge! Grief avoided.
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