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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.
20 comments:
Probably not worth $70 per ounce. If you can buy honey retail for $8 per pound, and I think you can, that's 50 cents per ounce. So Manuka had better be pretty miraculous to be worth it.
I dunno.
Too expensive for me.
I'm taking refuge in haiku:
Metaphorically, the outcome of the contest in pixel art brought a small naissance to our creative community, such that we called...
"it, Wee Birth"
It was his tenth try
at pixel art. The trophy?
Who got "First"?
. . . . . . . . . . . . Bestowed.
~ OMK
"Photo Contest"
Sophy's pixel was the key
for photographing the bee
that was producing so much honey
that she thought it might win her some money.
She submitted the photo to a contest
hoping it would be judged one of the best,
and it did some credit bestow
when it was rated tenth in the show.
So it did not win her a trophy,
but that really didn't crush Sophy.
Her photography may have some dearth,
but it still gives her pleasure and mirth,
and that alone produces its worth.
[Lois continues]
Her name was Laurel and at once I felt hope bestowed to me
One suggestion I followed was: "When praying, get down on your knees."
I was pixelated on one hand but still had those lingering doubts
"When I finally get to the tenth step will it be worth it or will I strike out?
Spoke Laurel, "They'll be no trophies, only this promise I make,
If fearless and thorough a new life is yours. Added bonus: A cake"
WC
Good for Sophy, Misty- ~ Glad she could take sufficient pleasure from managing a bee that was a good producer, though not the very best.
We don't always need to be the ace, the topmost champ in the field, to be able to feel pride in our accomplishments. We can't always take the trophy, but that doesn't mean we must be ashamed of our efforts.
I reckon coming in tenth in a field of, say, a hundred, still comes out to be "one of th best."
And your poem, Misty, holds up very well, along with all your verses--that are clearly distinguished on this site for "producing so much honey"!
What's the buzz? It's "Huzzah"!!
~ OMK
Wilbur ~
I like the suggestion/direction to get down on your knees when praying.
I mean, if you're gonna do it at all, then DO IT.
Right?
And I'm not even religious.
Laurel is clearly an AA trouper. I see how she slyly slips that conditional phrase into the promise of a "new life."
Just do it for the cake.
~ OMK
I believe one of the "tricks" of haiku is to rely on the reader's skill in reading the poet's mind, or in filling in the blanks concerning the narrator's unstated mental processes.
With this in mind, I ask whether the following is an improvement on my effort of today (leaving aside the inclusion of clue words):
It was his tenth try
at pixel art. The trophy?
Hmm. Aha! Bestowed.
~ OMK
So, Wilbur, there are nonreligious chapters of AA? I think I read that in a previous commnent you made. I ask because I've always wondered about the religious aspect of AA. Granted I think they talk about a Higher Power,'however you conceive it' or words to that effect. But I've thought that it's lucky I don't have a problem with alcohol, because I'd never be able to benefit from that approach.
I liked your second haiku better, OMK than its earlier version--simple, neat, clear but still with a little mystery (Hmm.) Best-owed? Bested Owen? No, he'd never be that competitive, as you pointed out earlier.
I hope Lois stays on the right path, Wilbur, and, as always, nice to see all the Jumble words and solution--it's been worth it.
Thanks for your vote, Misty!
I agree. But I'm not sure I have the confidence to rely on a haiku to carry it off on its own, without extra words from me to sorta "explain" what I want it to do.
In other words, it is easy to expect readers to "get it" once I have explained the "trick." I wish I could just leave the poetry alone--to speak for itself.
Oh, I don't understand the latter part of your message. What exactly did I point out earlier? Regarding Owen and being competitive? (It must have something to do with my note on Sophy, right?)
~ OMK
Sandy, AA is purposefully unorganized though there are regional, State and National organizations which provide guidance, literature etc.
Originally there was an Oxford society which was religious. AA chose not to be religious and spawned off. A Higher Power can be anything, in many cases the group(of drunks).
Self assessment, admission of faults to another(eg Sponsor) and atonement for whatever messes up your relationships is the nuts and bolts.
Atheists and agnostics are welcome and many AA's are non religious and some anti-religious. One guy told me that a true follower of the 12 Steps should eventually become a Buddhist.
And boy, the stories you hear.
WC
BTW, I liked Misty's use of "Dearth" akin to Tolkien's "Days of dearth". I wanted a couplet saying
[Lois speaking]
"I was pixelated on one hand but didn't know whether to praise it or curse it
"When I finally get to the tenth step will I strike out or will it be worth it"
And finally...
The mysterious haiku a la Chairman Moe. That hidden meaning ?????
WC
As an old (in both senses) atheist, I have noticed how AA seems to evade the god issue. I respect them for it, Sandy If I were ever to need such help, I would appreciate being able to define my own "higher power."
I could manage it, I'm sure, by focusing on the vast mystery that science regularly explores.
I am not imagining that it must be sentient (although maybe it is) to feel that I might appeal to it as the weak, but feeling creature that I am, before the powerful energizing force or forces that make up and regulate the cosmos.
I can't know I'd gain a hearing, but I could hope to align myself with such power.
~ OMK
As I mentioned here is link to Tolkien's
Days of dearth
WC
Thanks, Wilbur
OMK, if it's not sentient, then what's the point of trying to relate to 'it'? Thats just the unknowable universe, really, isn't it? Not meaning to be argumentative, but I just don't see any personal point.
Oh well, we are all indviduals.
Sorry, OMK, about my confusing Owen comment. I was just playing with your haiku:
It was his tenth try
at pixel art. The trophy?
Hmm. Aha! Bestowed.
I was playing with your ending--Bestowed--and separated the word into 'best-owed' and then brought up Owen only because of the word. But I meant to refer to the male figure in your haiku who made a tenth try at pixel art and didn't win but didn't seem to mind because he had still done well, done his best, best-owed. No reference to our own talented Owen was intended except with an illusion to the "owed" in the word. Apologies, Owen--I should have asked you first if I could allude to you.
Have you never been in awe of a redwood, Sandy?
Or the intricacy of your own organs?
How about the vastness of space?
Even when and if these may be reducible to the mechanistic explanations of science, I don't think I will give up measuring myself and my relatively simple processes against the "laws" that govern them--and me.
Surely that is a way of "relating."
Not to argue, not at all. Just to clarify.
How about music?
Different, because man-made. But according to patterns or rules or laws that we didn't make--a "language" of sorts, but not a logical once, yet capable of inspiring emotion.
How about poetry? A language that relates to both sentient and non-sentient entities. Not necessarily the slim verses we attempt here (and leaving aside all the kinds that you don't like)--
Still, we have words and images and rhythms capable of capturing the feelings we cannot otherwise express as we witness the surge of the sea (non-sentient) or the hear the cry of a newborn (of limited sentience). We certainly "relate" to these, and in part define ourselves in those relationships.
I agree that we are all indidivuals. But I'm pretty sure you have some of these same experiences, however you may express them.
~ OMK
That way of relating seems fine, OMK. I would define it as a personal reaction to something in nature. I personally think that trees are the best things on the planet, especially redwood trees and I have felt an awed admiration when in a redwood grove.
My quibble, if that's what it was, was thinking of nature as a 'higher power' in the sense of getting purposeful guidance somehow. I figure that we can attribute whatever we want, to phenomena outside ourselves, but that the attribution definitely comes from us.
Definitely.
And isn't it an awesome capacity!
To dogs & cats & bugs and such, it's all just part of the neutral, friendly, or unfriendly environment.
To us, it evokes from us and/or we attribute to it an amazing range of "phenomena," including a sense of being in harmony or at cross purposes with it.
~ OMK
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