| || agile, hoard, ferret, docket, forged ahead.
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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.
"Mind Your Weasels!"
ReplyDeleteA hoard of agile ferrets
escaped their backyard pen,
and rushed about on errands
and snuck back home again.
In the morning once the cops had
seen the goodies they had pillaged
they wrote their master on the docket:
"fostering feral ferrets" in the village.
~ OMK
OMK, I too misspelled "Horde", in one of my Bilbo poems and it was you that corrected me. Now those cute little ferrets do indeed like to "hoard" little trinkets and doodads.
ReplyDeleteI have an idea for continuing Ivanhoe. Even 12th century England had their ferrets. I think we'll revisit Prince John and his cabal.
In my Ivanhoe musical I envisioned the cabal huddling like a football team.
WC
"Off-beat Romance"
ReplyDeleteJennifer was a bit fragile,
and yet she could also be agile.
Her strengths she would hoard
and never flourish a sword.
Her pet was a ferret
and she fed him a carrot.
Though this was not on her docket,
she met a man in a cock-pit
who gave her a locket.
Love took off like a rocket.
Soon a bond they did forge
and one day, by a gorge,
they just went ahead
and decided to wed.
You are so right, Wilbur, it slipped right by me!
ReplyDeleteStill, it did not affect my reaching today's solution (a clever multiple pun) so much as my other early morning error. My sleepy eyes too quickly read "fetter" in place of "ferret" in my first attempt.
Fortunately, the solution popped up anyway & led me right back to correct the clue word.
FLN Misty ~ Thank you for your too-generous praise! The "Seahawks" are another west coast team, a rival to my 49ers & Rams. They are a near rhyme, rather than perfect, but they match neatly in their vowels and syllable rhythm. I couldn't resist.
When I was a kid, we never heard "kiosk" used. We used "booth," "shack," "counter," or "box office," depending on the context.
I remember coming across the word during my first stay in England. Nowadays we see it here in general use.
~ OMK
Also "stand"--another stand-in for "kiosk."
ReplyDeleteYour poem is a delight, Misty. I like how "docket" proved so inspirational, generating several rhymes but also leading Jennifer from her single life!
Words can show us the way.
~ OMK