| || mince, stomp, policy, limber, time is money.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed! And couching them in Poetry is definitely NOT required.
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:
Wow, I had to work backward from the solution to get the fourth clue, which really stumped me for some reason. Of course, then it was d'oh! time.
Interesting play on words. Now if it had been an apiary...
Wow, indeed!
This one fairly leapt from the page, !
Lessee, an apiary would turn the solution's third word to that sweet golden stuff. A neat rhyme.
Funny, I ended up with a near rhyme in the Spoonerism intro to my poem.
Ever beat out a rhythm on your gut?
Where the drummer and the glutton share a Policy:
"Mine Is Tummy"
The percussive ensemble named Stomp
uses mincers & trash bins to whomp.
They're limber & nimble
and can play on a thimble
as surreally as Marcel Duchamp.
~ OMK
I'm not going to mince my words!
It's time to stomp up and be heard!
Let those pestilential parasites
Know that we peons have some insights!
Acknowledge that trees are more than just lumber,
Climbing them for tree-houses keeps us limber!
While global warming may cause some pain,
It eases my arthritis, so that's a gain!
A policy on Daylight Savings Time
In the Fall may cost an extra dime,
But the money spent will come right back
When in Spring all of our clocks we hack!
"Financial"
Paul had a worthwhile policy
without a single fallacy.
The terms he did not mince,
he refused to budge an inch,
yet still stayed somewhat limber
when selling his newfound timber.
By refusing to complain or stomp
his production became a romp.
Soon he treasured every dime
pouring in time after time.
Now his life is grand and sunny
as he floats in pools of money.
"Marcel Duchamp"! What a brilliant ending to your brief verse, Ol' Man Keith!
And Owen, I love the way you unobtrusively hide all the Jumble words in your poem. I takes me a minute to find them all, but there they are! Hurray!
I dunno, Owen. Fun to read, but I confess I gotta little lost.
If I read you aright, your speaker may be a climate change denier, maybe a Trumpian, addressing elitists ("pestilential parasites") who score by riding on people's fear of major change. He claims short range benefits are enough, no long term policy need apply.
Anywhere near the mark?
Misty ~ Thank you! Glad you liked M. Duchamp.
Your Paul offers a lesson on the virtue of sticking to one's guns. Good for him!
I love how "sunny" always rhymes with "money"!
At least so long as we keep inflation under control...
Keep your eye on a steady goal, and you can succeed--but even w/o a happy marriage?!
~ OMK
Athough nowadays, Misty, "sunny... money" can't mean "cash."
There are signs going up at various stores (supermarkets, and the few others that are open) disallowing the use of paper money, for fear of spreading all those germs.
My guess is the next step will be the sale of actual money-laundering machines, little washtubs and wringers designed to wash, scrub, and wring bills to make them hygienically acceptable!
~ OMK
OMK, the only other two words I came up with for rhyming with money were 'honey' and 'punny' (full of puns?). Honey was too sentimental and punny possibly ungrammatical so 'sunny' was the best and more or less only choice. Oh nuts, I just realized 'funny' might have worked too, or 'runny'.
"Bunny."
"Gunny" - nickname for Marine gunnery sergeant.
"Nunny" - nickname for a favorite anchorite.
Keith, I think you got it. As many have said various ways thru history, the trouble is that the knowledgeable are so unsure, while the idiots are always positive!
Thanks, Owen.
Or, to paraphrase, "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
~ OMK
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