Tammi Belko of Ohio is our host today for the 18th day of VerseLove 2025. She inspires us to use a random word generator to generate words to work into poems. You can read her full prompt here, along with some suggestions for online word generators.
Recently, we had The Poetry Fox visit our local coffee shop to celebrate National Poetry Month by writing poems for people on his vintage typewriter. After his visit last year, I learned that he keeps a list of all the words that people give him. I asked if I could take a picture. I’m using his words today as my random words, but I’m only taking a few of them: dogs, hurry, kindred spirits, wisteria, tulip, watercolor, enchantment.
Watercolor Enchantment
I come to the garden
late afternoon
with the boys
– my kindred canine spirit dogs ~
in no hurry to be
anywhere but here
in this watercolor enchantment
of yellow, red, white and pink tulips
vibrant against the lavender wisteria
fragrant, spellbinding,
deeply rooted
in the business
of being what
they were meant
to be
Common Threads 
What a beautiful walk you take us on with watercolor flowers and your pups!
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