| hitch, afoot, stigma, pigeon, (a) camp sight. |
| outfox, hiatus, rather, modest, hymnal, phobia, blast from the past.
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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.
11 comments:
Pastor's Lambaste
"Please open your hymnals to number 10:
'I Have No Fear, No Phobia of Hell
Since My Lord Outfoxed Old Satan'.
After verse two we'lł pause a spell,
a short hiatus while the ushers pass the plate.
And while modesty is a Christian virtue
please try to be rather more bold this date
than you were last week. Yes, it may hurt you,
but the Lord don't give a good boo-hoo."
~ OMK
"Fearful Tobeas"
We once had a friend named Tobeas
Who suffered from many phobias.
He feared cocks and rocks,
Though we tried to outfox
him, all we managed was rather
To heighten his lather.
Giving him a hiatus
only made him berate us.
With our hope so minimal
we finally gave him a hymnal.
Yet a gift just so modest
Made him worship a goddess.
Now his fears from the past
have vanished at last.
You have some special rhymes, Misty, ultra-clever.
Y'know, I think near-rhymes are often smarter than the real echoes. "Minimal" and "hymnal" is a good example.
Heheh. Whenever I encounter a neat rhyme or phrase, I feel like Polonius in Hamlet. When the Player king is holding forth, he says, "But who, oh who had seen the mobled queen?"
Then Polonius butts in--very obtrusivesly--and says, "That's good! 'Mobled queen' is good."
I think, "That's good! 'Minimal/hyminal' is good!!" (And that's how I'd pronounce "hyminal" if I were reading aloud.)
Where is everybody else these days?
~ OMK
I've revised & erased my 3:30 am posting.
This version is a bit of an improvement, I think:
A Scamp's Flight
"The game's afoot!" cried Sherlock as he hitched
a ride with Lestrade. "We'll know him by his brow.
It displays stigmata, the mark of a wing which
blushes bright red under stress, so now’s
the time to pluck our bird. We've a smidgen
of a chance--per his fellow stool pigeon!"
~ OMK
I didn't mean to also erase my FLN Thanks to Misty & Sandy for their nice comments on my attempts at haiku yesterday.
Nor my lament that Owen & Wilbur hadn't joined us. We missed both of you!
~ OMK
Thank you, Ol'Man Keith, for your extremely kind and generous comments.
It makes me really happy that you liked my awkward minimal/hymnal rhyme.
I unfortunately can't do the other Jumble, but I must say that I love your smidgen/pigeon rhyme. I could not have come up with that in a million years.
I too miss Wilbur and Owen, and especially Sandy. Hope we get some word before the end of the day.
Wow, never posted this either,? Ok here we go
Sorry for not getting a post in FLN. I composed one but didn't post. Then it was on my phone still this morning and I thought I posted it at 7sm EDT. But no sign of it.
Sunday is busy day for me. I finally got started after noon then a grocery store run intervened. While in a long line I got my phone out and the grocery list and jotted down the four J's. I had previously got five of the 6*6's and the brief hiatus to the store and a peak at Misty's poem and I had all six. The riddle-solution may have also been gotten quickly from effectively a Misty spoonerism.
I worked the 4*4 riddle-solution out once I had 9 letters. I'll have to look at OMK's poems now that I have 10 words and two riddle-solutions. Keith has gotten very clever and intricate these days.
As I learned from Bilbo himself, daily poetic practice hones one.
WC
Ps, I used to see Owen on Facebook but not recently. Has he appeared this week at all,?
I should check in too. Did both jumbles without huge problems. I enjoyed the funny solution to j4. Got a little sidetracked on the solution to j6, because I initially wanted "them" as one of the words, but I did clear that up. The solution didn't strike me as terribly clever, but it was ok.
I applaud the energy of anyone who creates poems these days, but I have pretty much succumbed to heat-induced lassitude. No AC in my abode, just a fan!
It is pretty hot in SoCal these days. I feel for you, Sandy.
I am the heat-lover in our home, while Janice likes it cool. But these days we are in agreement, and the a/c is running night & day.
Occasionally I slip out to the patio for some sun to melt the frost on my knees and knuckles, but I'm glad to be able to return to the cold inside.
Wilbur!! ~ Good to see you, old man!
I also sometimes think I've posted when I haven't. I was only concerned that you were OK. It's good to be busy.
No, I have seen no sign of Owen recently. He is probably all right, but we know he has health issues, so it would be good to have some reassurance from him.
~ OMK
Wilbur, wonderful to hear from you and look forward to hopefully getting your poem tomorrow. Thank you so much for checking in with us.
And you, too, Sandy--we missed you both.
Now if Owen would just check in, it would make our day.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
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