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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.
"Arrr," said the pirate, Xavior McCree.
ReplyDelete"Since I've retired, I've bunged up my knee!
But no peg-leg for me, that would be trite.
I'd look like an idiot, a cliche on sight!"
"I should have kept my mind on the job.
And not let the board bang my knee on the knob.
The air, it turned blue at the remarks I made,
But I didn't misuse any word that I said!"
"I handled that board like a novice with a plank,
Remembering good times, those blokes who sank
When I prodded with my snickersnee, their long walk
On that plank that stuck out like a very short dock!"
"A Pique at this Kind [of Aesthetic]"
ReplyDeleteThe poetry platform has a plank
that permits perverted grammar. Let's be frank:
It's often misused by idiots
(novices too) who liketh archaic sounds
or to make a scansion hideous
with adjectives following nouns.
~ OMK
Wow! Two terrific poems to start off our Friday! Welcome back, Owen, we missed you, and your pirate makes some very thoughtful remarks. And Ol' Man Keith, maybe your poetry critic too liketh archaic sounds more than he realizes.
ReplyDelete"Relief"
ReplyDeleteNora was just a novice
who felt like an idiot.
How could she manage to miss
her payment--it wasn't a lot.
Well, perhaps she did misuse
her private account at the bank
and she hoped they wouldn't accuse
her and make her walk the plank.
But the man at the counter was kind:
he told her to keep in mind
that if she paid her late fee,
they would happily let her go free.
Our thanks to Owen
ReplyDeleteand to Xavier McCree
for his memory, and that he
would be so kind as to care to share it!
No idiot he, unless wearing a parrot
for an epaulet. That peg-leg stuff
ain’t cliché enough.
Misty’s Nora is a doll
to be so innocent as to how
the rules for banking work.
Unlike Jason, she’s no jerk,
she’s just naïve,
so deserves reprieve.
As with Ibsen’s child
we are beguiled.
(The husbands among us
merely smiled.)
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteMisuse of funds, a familiar plank gained nothing for the novice.
Forget the negativity, the way to the voters heart is in the fat promise.
They're all idiots anyway, glued to TV and the Net
There looking for easy street. "Vote for Me, the safe bet.
They're sick of the same ol' same old. Sick of the nine to five grind."
"Escape with me from the tired old trend. Next time I'll keep that in mind".
WC
Fln-5; Misty, thank you for the kind words in H is for...". AA has a monthly magazine, the Grapevine. Perhaps they'll like it. I'd you have a critique feel free to let me have it.
ReplyDeleteI see Owen went with the pirates. The Pittsburgh Pirates* got the name from stealing players from other teams during the Baseball Wars of competing leagues circa 1880-1895.
"Abuse of ERATO", a capital crime
From ridiculous to the less than sublime
"Pervert that grammar, go ahead, make my day"
Said the magistrate of meter and rhyme, OMK
*And the Cleveland Indians from Sockalexis of Holy Cross baseball legend
Hello guys. I saw the solution immediately upon looking over the cartoon. That didn't help me with clue four, which for some reason gave me a lot of head scratching. Had to figure out its letters needed for the solution and finally got it!
ReplyDeleteI see this as clever word play of a non-pun variety. Maybe B-.
Hello, Wilbur. Whenever you get the time and inclination, I look forward to a story continuation. No pressure, honest, just anticipation.
Neither magistrate nor master
ReplyDeletebut a critic, a nasal-snorter,
wishing to prevent disaster
when the aim’s to cut a corner.
To cram big thoughts in a wrong line length,
to make the trite seem an ancient truth,
to reach a rhyme through a twisted sense,
then “Fie!—on thy bardic lay uncouthe!!"
Wilbur, what terrific lore,
on the Pirates' background!
I never knew before
how the boys were named. You just astound
me, sir. I am almost happy to go
another day or so
without an end for Ivanhoe!
~ OMK
Wilbur, you are not just a good poet,
ReplyDeletebut also a good critic, in case you didn't know it.
Ol' Man Keith, it's always a mystery
how you are so steeped in history.
Owen, I'm glad your pirate has retired--
that makes him even more inspired.