| khaki, dress, notion, cosmos, one-track mind.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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The Ontino were one mindful race,
ReplyDeleteTheir minds could take them any place.
Their traveling was by pure thought;
Technology was what they brought.
They ranged thru-out the cosmos wide
Their only rule was "Don't take sides"!
Be it wolf nor hare, Yank nor Reb,
Where battle was, they did not tread.
Watchers hid khaki skin and ebony eyes,
Taking native dress was their disguise.
Earth, to their notion, was a dreary land.
With constant conflict, they gave no hand.
And then, the nature of conflict churned.
Man and Nature were who it concerned.
Man treated Nature like she was a toy;
Nature turned her climate to destroy.
The Ontino yearned to intercede.
For this war track there was no need!
But truce was offered by neither side,
And so -- both Man and Mature died.
Complicated, epic poem, Owen--congratulations, that's quite a feat. I got all four Jumble words but had trouble with the solution, and so came to the blog. I had to read your poem carefully twice before I finally saw the light and got the solution. Many thanks! The cartoon with all those tiny trees and that barn with a silo and the mountains in the background of the circular track was a delight too. Lots of fun.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the poem and its sentiment. Did you mean Man and Nature at the end??
ReplyDeleteThe jumble wasn't difficult, though I did need to lay out the letters for the third clue before I went "Of course!" But the solution popped out right away. Like those puns, though maybe this one is as much a railroad-derived idiom as a pun.
I have started checking both versions of the cartoons. It does help to make sense of all the comments, but also I can enjoy them both.