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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.
Fln, Misty did you miss
ReplyDeleteChet and Lois made a fun duo(FONDUE)?
Brilliant, Wilbur!
ReplyDeleteNow, That's embedding!!
~ OMK
"Underdogs"
ReplyDeleteWhenever the match was serious,
when it was time to meet face to face,
no breed was more fierce or more active
than Yorkies, always on top, in first place.
Clear the court of other contenders!
"Louie" & "Blip" accept their surrenders!
~ OMK
The app predicted that they were a match,
ReplyDeleteAltho neither considered the other a catch.
Still, a chat, over electronic waves,
Was easy enough, to see what path it paves.
He liked sports, she liked theater.
She liked gourmet, he was meat and 'tater.
Still they began to court, an odd fact.
Proof, I guess, that opposites attract.
Their chats became fervid, their feelings fierce,
But chatting online left a barrier to pierce.
It was a passive, not active, paradigm.
To meet face-to-face, at last it was time!
"Courtship"
ReplyDeleteMatt was keen to make a match,
hoping his true love to catch.
So a sweet young lady he began to court
on his first vacation to a nice resort.
Back home, he invited her to his place
for pleasant visits, face to face.
They avoided any fierce arguments
and discussions over issues were never tense.
Soon their active romance began to bloom,
and in just a short time Matt became a groom.
Aaarrgghh, I can't believe I missed Chet and Lois's FONDUE, Wilbur. My apology.
ReplyDeleteOl' Man Keith, amazing the way you work all the Jumble words and solution into such a brief, succinct verse. Terrific. So Louie and Blip are the names of Yorkies?
Owen, nice to see that you also found that today's Jumble just pointed to courtship. Happy to see we were on the same wavelength, though with a much more elegant verse on your side.
More brief, succinct verse. A little different
ReplyDeleteAll knew when these fierce rivals arrived at Center Court,
One a stoic Swede , his opponent fierce of comport,
That the match this time, face to face, would be highly competitive.
Borg with his smooth ground strokes, McEnroe dervishly active
WC
Looks like you win the prize for brevity today, Wilbur!
ReplyDeleteYou squeezed all the clue words into four lines, while I needed five.
Congratulations!
(Of course, my lines are shorter...*)
~ OMK
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* "La brièveté est l'âme de...." er, something-or-other.
Ok Wilbur, no special Borg-McEnroe meeting. Their head-to-head was pretty even, though McEnroe
ReplyDeletewon more slams.
ReplyDeleteYes, it looks like Misty won a convert in the dean of our site, Maestro Owen ~ as both describe the joyful progress of romantic courtships today.
ReplyDeleteMay Love bloom all around!
I guess the split is 50/50, with romance on one side and competition on the other--my Yorkies (and yes, those were the names of my two successive pups!) and Wilbur's tennis giants.
To be more formal, the two Yorkies were "Radarblip" and "Louie."
~ OMK
I wasn't exactly on the same page as you. This was my second attempt. My first involved a felon in COURT who had to FACE TIME in prison because his DNA was a MATCH for a FIERCE crime he was ACTIVELY accused of. Too much of a downer.
ReplyDeleteThat's never stopped me, Owen, those knights from Ivanhoe's day were fierce and Prince John was the ultimate downer
ReplyDeleteWC
Sandy, I was thinking in particular of this
ReplyDelete1980 match
5 sets, McEnroe won the 4th tiebreaker 18-16 but lost 5th set 8-6.
A fiercely competed match.
WC
Not to worry, Owen, ol' pal.
ReplyDeleteWe weren't going to hold you to it, not expecting you to have turned "romantic" for all time.
We can all go back and forth.
Uppers or downers, however the muse moves...
~ OMK
But Wilbur, what about 1981?
ReplyDeleteKind of interesting that Borg never won a hard court slam, and McEnroe never won on clay (or Australian Open).
Do you think Novak will win his 20th at Wimbledon? Fantasy time: Imagine if he won not only Wimbledon, but also the U.S. Open AND took gold at the Olympics. Possible.
Yes, Johnny Mac cane back and finally overcame Bjorn.
ReplyDeleteI thought Djokovic was playing lights out vs Nadal. So smooth.
He'll be very hard to beat on any surface. Worthy of epic poetry