| || poise, bevel, melody, spiral, lies (the) problem.
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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.
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Who says jumble's not political? Did anybody ever say that? Not true!
How about some mediaval politics, Sandy. From Wednesday's J's
The clamor that Sir Brian was responding too
Was occasioned by a missive from the besiegers
Signed by Wamba the Witless and Gurth. "What's the ballyhoo?
Nothing but an empty threat" said the leaders.
"They're just trying to bamboozle us with this sonata"
[Answered Front de Boeuf]
"Those forest brigands will send 200 cloth-yard shafts
From 200 bows. We'll feel like we're in a pinata."
[Answered De Bracy]
"Afraid of these worthless swine, are you all daft?"
[Responded Front de Boeuf]
"I see the image on the note is from the Saxon Locksley
If writing implements can be found answer thusly:
'Cedric and Athelstane will be executed tomorrow'"
[said Sir Brian]
"So be it, let them be shriven first by a priest though".
WC
I like how "bamboo" got tucked into "bamboozled"!
Isn't it strange that these words' etymology show no relationship between the two?
Music is natural as a flower.
Cultivate it with nature's power.
Melody is merely noise
given poise.
First, bevel its edges,
as you trim your hedges;
then let its pollen spiral & spin into blooms
that become your tunes.
Let there be no problems:
Thus ever flies the blossom,
in ways simply awesome.
~ OMK
Isn't it interexting, Wilbur, How Scott worked Robin Hood into his story? I am really enjoying your tales.
I do think the cartoon politician today is better looking than our own IRL wrecking ball. Low bar, though.
Please tell me if I cross a line and I'll back off.
I doubt that a simple comparison of likenesses between our RL POTUS and a 'toon politician is too edgy.
Maybe "wrecking ball" endows him with more power than his actual capability.
I see the gentleman in question as caught halfway en route to becoming the "Hulk," still lacking any of the strengths possessed by that avatar, while having abandoned all of the mental capacity and normal human virtues of Dr. Bruce Banner.
But maybe that's hard to draw?
~ OMK
"Jumble Mumble"
Wilbur's sagas never make noise--
They simply express too much poise.
Keith, I find your poems as level
And gliding as a bevel.
Sandy, there lies no problem
With your evoking a goblin.
So, what did I miss?
Tell me:
Was it the melody?
"Jumble Mumble" P.S.
Oops, my verse vent viral
Before I added that spiral.
LOL, Misty!
"So, what did I miss?"
Not.
a.
Thing.
Your score: alpha plus
~ OMK
Everyone is poetic but me.😕 😕😕
However, I don't think it's so much directly being a wrecking ball as it is in the power of appointments, e.g., environment, public schools, etc. etc.
Sandy, I'm sure you too are a poet,
You just don't know it.
(Or you just won't show it).
Blank verse, perhaps?I
Poised on the edge of remembering the melody,
I see in my mind's eye
the beveled edge of a spiral or helix.
Ah, therein lies my problem.
Which is it?
Lame effort at being mystical.
Don't back off, Sandy!
No, not blank verse, but you had a great opening line in perfect dactylic tetrameter.
Check it out!
_uu _uu _uu _uu.
You almost followed with your three-beat capper.
I would probably go for two dactyls and a monosyllable. To give it punch.
"Heard in the ear of my mind"? _uu _uu _ !
But that's just me. You clearly have another idea & prefer visualizing the melody.
Either way, you had a great start! Not lame at all.
~ OMK
Woohoo! See, Sandy, I knew you could do it.
(and yes, I'm still rhyming--sort of)
Ok, OMK, apparently not blank verse, but maybe free verse?
I want to be free; just let me be free.
Or words to that effect, lol.
It's a worthy aim, Sandy, the wish to be free
--not as easy as one might suppose.
But where is the key?
It's tough as it goes, heaven knows.
The first choice we make is always cliché
as Grotowski has taught us.
We only THINK we can play
'cross the lines that that he brought us.
~ OMK
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