| || witch, muggy, nestle, evolve, vetting.
Image from the Internet.
The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
Wendy was a weary wood-witch, wandering,
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Should she nestle down near some muggy swamp,
Where fertile fungi would be fruitful in the damp;
Or should she find a drier spot, mayhap upon a hillside
With a pleasant view of forests and clearings wide?
Able to see when customers or trouble came
To have the appropriate spells ready for the same?
Vetting locations was an oh, so, tiresome chore
Even with a helpful alternate reality realtor.
Communities evolve, the nearby Druidians today
Next year could have Puritan Inquisitions under way!
Or Wendy might herself devolve
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And that would all her problems solve.
She'd need no special room then.
Looking at today's cartoon, I flashed back to my childhood when because my dog was acting strangely, I was mentally betting, dreading, & fretting over the likelihood my mom wouldn't be letting me be petting him.
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteAfter the muggy passages under the mountain
The sun , the wind, the trees helped refreshen
Bilbo's spirits. He'd evolved this hill-bound homebody
Escaping goblins and Gollum was anything but shoddy.
And beyond hope the sound of dwarvish yammer
Standing guard was Balin, The Iron Hammer.
Slipping on the ring he nestled up next to Dori
Off went the ring. "Bilbo! We were starting to worry."
"No time for stories my miscreant, however bizarre
We must make haste before the coming of dusk
I must leave to deal with the Witch King of Angmar."
"Good ol' Gandalf, he's nothing if not brusque."
And indeed very soon the sun would be setting
"Er, how about for the next shortcut you do some vetting."
"To make up for leaving you, here's a spare hood"
Just then they heard the howling of dreaded warg-wolves
WC
My goodness, the poetic brilliance on this blog just blows my mind. I'll have to come back later to see if I can give a more fitting response, but now I'll just say I loved getting all four words and solution to the Jumble and loved the colors in the blog cartoon.
ReplyDeleteNot much to say. Enjoyed both poems; jumble quite easy. Liked the pun.
ReplyDeleteIt was getting late; the sun was setting, and I was shredding fresh newspaper 'cuz his kennel had taken a wetting the night before.
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Mayhap worms were besetting him....
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I just keep betting
ReplyDeleteThat I can stop dreading
My constant fretting.
But it seems to be getting
Better, and heading
Into letting
A kind of netting
Of gentle dog petting
Serve as a setting
For vetting
A wedding.
Whose wedding? A wedding of what? I have no idea. But I feel better and am no longer sweating.
A wedding of wits, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes! ~ an excellent display & replay of the relevant rhymes.
As I look at your lyrical litany, Misty,
I'm moved by many memories.
I'll not soon be fogetting Ol' Pee-pot.
~ OMK
Er, "r."
ReplyDeleteI'm betting you're forgetting my alphabetting, OMK.
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ReplyDeleteSandy, re. Downton Abbey, thx for the Maggie Smith info. I remember a "Bronco" Captain saying "Guess who won the Academy Award? This was 1970 in Marble Mountain Vietnam.
And the answer: Maggie Smith. And I said, "Who?, Never heard if her".
I'll have to LIU that
WC
Alliteration is also amusing.
ReplyDeleteAlphabetting is itself a fine word, Misty,
as are
Abetting,
Collecting,
Electing,
Insetting,
Jetting,
Resting,
Treading,
Upsetting,
& Zesting.
But we couldn't squeeze 'em all into poor lil' Pee-pot's tale.
We need the vision of an Owen or a Wilbur to make unlikely words fit a given format. Or force them to multiple meanings.
Are they not the masters of Humpty-Dumpty's dictum*?
There are a few other words that come close to our need, such as
Kidding,
Middling,
Omitting,
& Questing.
Even (heheh...)
eXiting.
~ OMK
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* ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
Nor to speak of today's word: NESTLE-ing
ReplyDeleteThe full title of our Chapter is "From the Frying Pan into the Fire. Tomorrow if the Jumble cooperates we'll see about that fire.
Now, Tolkien denied allegory but Gandalf represents Churchill eg "Stormcrow*. Prior to WWI Churchill was imprisoned in S Africa by the Boers. He has a miracle escape. Did the "Eagles" come to his aid?
WC
* Theoden King used that name and Churchill's enemies in the 30s also
I give up, you're a better poet than I am, OMK--well, actually, you all are. And I also give up on trying to figure out who is 'poor li'l Pee Pot? (I have a feeling I don't want to know).
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