Wordle Wednesday: Imprint

I first saw Wordle at Dani's last week. Now I know that I've seen Wordle tag clouds around lots of places but I really only remember them making an impression on me when I sauntered over to Dani's. She had made word clouds for each of her children's birth stories that were quite poignant.

As bon pointed out in a comment here yesterday, Wordle is used a lot to give a pictorial representation of tags on a site so that you can see in an instant what the site is all about. I prefer to think of Wordle as art. As such, I took my big post-miscarriage post from February and ran it through Wordle. This is what I got. Click on the picture to see a larger version.



You'll notice that the top word on the fingerprint is believe and the next to last one is alone. I'm also struck by the way the words little, part, just, us are impregnated in the word know. I keep coming back to this picture and, like poetry, it keeps offering me images and insights that I hadn't seen before.

I also made tag clouds for all my Ghosts of Christmas Past posts but I decided not to save any of those. It was enough just to see them laid out on screen with sometimes painful and sometimes loving words all tumbling into each other like glittering, broken ornaments in a box.