| shiny, tacky, juggle, unclad, (a) casting call. |
| tunnel, warmly, morale, darker, female, boggle, general knowledge.
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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.
J4
ReplyDelete"Costume Costs"
No matter what the show budget may be,
certain outfits should be cheap.
Their look depends almost entirely
on spending what ain't too steep.
Jugglers, for one, and acrobats,
and magicians' female helpers
must show semi-clad or as near unclads,
like escapees fresh from shelters.
Tacky and shiny define their aesthetic,
values whose spirit's more than merely syndetic.
~ OMK
I really enjoyed both of these jumbles. Though the clues weren't difficult, both solutions took a bit of letter rearranging. But they both made sense to me both as puns and also as the given expressions. Kudos, constructors!
ReplyDeleteBOTH, BOTH, BOTH! Overused it much?
ReplyDeleteLove your poem, Ol' Man Keith. My Jumble words were so difficult to rhyme that this is one of the toughest and arguably weakest verses of mine, but I tried to do my best.
ReplyDelete"Depression"
Tim's mood was in a tunnel,
his spirits in a funnel.
It could not have been darker
and required a miraculous sparkler.
He cried out to his family, "Charm me!"
and they responded ever so warmly.
They knew they could not dawdle
and must hurry his spirits to boggle.
To lift his depressed morale
they formed a joyous chorale,
led by a sweet pale female
whose voice over others did sail.
She sang songs she had learned in college
that were part of Tim's general knowledge.
Thanks to being so gifted
she sang songs that Tim's spirit lifted.
Then he too began to sing.
They all clapped: "What a wonderful thing!"
J6
ReplyDelete"Of General Despair"
It can boggle the most heated imagination
of a male or female artist
to conceive a theme or sensation
that emulates a vision that's as dark as
that of a psyche like Trump's.
To explore that tunnel of grief,
in the various minds of a thief
and blowhard and braggart
and bastard and braggerer,
must leave one's morale in the dumps.
~ OMK
I was torn between going for the neologic comparative for braggart--and break from the "B"s--or just settle for "swaggerer." But I figured to give the reader something to chew on.
ReplyDeleteMisty ~ You needn't fret; the toughness & difficulty don't show in your smooth lines. I loved your descriptors--"a sweet pale female." Simple, but evocative of an assuming sweetheart.
Sandy ~ I know exactly how you feel, exactly!
I for one hadn't noticed. We all do it, and most of the time we're the only ones to pay such close attention.
Santa does it all the time: Ho, Ho, HO!
~ OMK
Er, "UNassuming."
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the kind words, Ol' Man Keith. Liked your second poem even more, and boy, will it ever feel good to get him out of the White House and out of our lives.
ReplyDeleteOut of the People's House for sure but, sadly, probably not out of our lives.
ReplyDeleteI fear we're stuck with the damage for years to come, and he is certainly going to keep riling up his millions of duped fans.
~ OMK
Another OMK word: syndetic. I'll LIU later.
ReplyDeleteRe. 4*4? Ok I have CAST. And I'm left with LACING or ???
I have the 6"6 in my newspaper and I did that before the CC. The riddle-solution came before the last J6. My morale soared when I got it. The Y chromosone took a bit too.
Yes BOTH of them. In prose using a word over isn't a problem but in poetry it's a no-no. I look for that before posting but I've missed now and then.
So... Any hints for the 4*4 riddle-solution?
WC
Ps, re. The CC:. In the NE I didn't know those bands nor weather group. I seldom leave that many boxes blank.
Delete. My friend who knows pop music is supposed to help but she must be cooking. I didn't know that NC college either.
WC
Here's a hint, or two, Wilbur.
ReplyDeleteThe J4 solution, taken in its original meaning, is an event that, in my professional career (i.e., not the teaching part), I attended often--on BOTH sides of the table at different times.
If that doesn't help, I can add that the answer is alliterative.
~ OMK
Wilbur, re the j4 c!ues, aren't you missing a letter?
ReplyDeleteLOL Sandy ~
ReplyDeleteThe L he is!
~ OMK
Yes, I was missing an L. And my "cast" was in the wrong place. The whole cast of characters is coming together for the denouement of the Ivanhoe saga.
ReplyDeleteI'll see if I can drum something up.
WC
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