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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.
Interesting, today's LAT has the quoted word one letter longer and one letter shorter!
ReplyDelete"Butting Heads"
ReplyDeleteHe was a man of the cloth, and yet
he loved to watch her moves.
She'd bump & grind, gyrate to beat all heck,
leave him a wreck,
a man undone,
whom she'd easily won.
Her nature proves youth soothes.
~ OMK
Suzy was a "free spirit" sort --
ReplyDeleteAn exhibitionist; well, a tart.
Clothes, she thought, were fusty needs.
Given druthers, she'd shuck the weeds!
She learned to pole-dance lasciviously,
To hump it while holding by her knee.
She loved to twerk, to gyrate, grind,
Just any moves to shock man-kind!
Suzy'd dance and strut, and show her stuff,
With fans, or veils, or in the buff!
But she was undone, and lost her edge,
When gentlemen suggested she cut her "hedge"!
"Bad Boss"
ReplyDeleteGary's job was a terrible grind
with a boss who all his workers maligned.
His temper would constantly gyrate,
and he'd often break into a tirade
with remarks that were cruel and cutting
and intended to be off-putting.
His employees tried all this to hedge,
but in the end they made a pledge.
Gary reported their boss's behavior
and their chairman became their savior.
The boss was fired, his career undone
and a significant victory his workers had won.
I aimed for a different scheme today. Almost got there, but I'm not happy with the result.
ReplyDeleteBoth Owen's and Misty's efforts struck me as splendid examples of our poetic labor.
The former expanded on a theme similar to my exotic dancer--to far richer effect.
The latter seems a superior version of the couplets Misty has been exploring all along, including clever rhyming and at least one wrap-around sentence!
~ OMK
Thank you for your always kind comments, Ol' Man Keith.
ReplyDeleteAnd there they were in your clever rhyme, all the Jumble words with the solution glossed by the title, as always. Only I was a little surprised that a man of the cloth would get all undone by female bumping and grinding and gyrating. I suppose sometimes it's the unexpected that leaves people butting heads with what they least expect.
Owen, was it Suzy who left the man of the cloth such a wreck? When I read the brazen story of your vivid verse, I wondered if you and OMK had collaborated?
ReplyDeleteThis was clearly one Jumble where men and women took the material in very different directions.
Misty ~
ReplyDeleteI agree that a "man of the cloth" may not be so easily "undone," but I was basing my two head-butters on a time-honored cliché.
I suppose the old story was captured most memorably by Somerset Maugham in his tale, Rain, originally published in 1921 under the title, Miss Thompson.
The Rev. Davidson tries to reform Miss Sadie Thompson (who we suspect has more tricks than her dance moves) but ends up slashing his throat.
There are innumerable other stories of clergy falling for dames they try to reform, but this is probably the essential one.
~ OMK
Great poetic efforts by our Erato experts or is that exotica experts. Except for Misty of course with a riveting, if not gyrating, tale of workplace friction(friction a lot different from the previous two)
ReplyDeleteRe. "The Reverend ". Doesn't the Bible say if a part of the anatomy offends then cut it off? I think there was a Saint that went all the way with that.
I can see why OMK 's Rev. Davidson chose suicide. Of course it could be worse as in falling for an alter boy
WC
Sorry no poetry. Forgot my insert. Pocketed one from a
TBTimes leftover from Sunday but did Thursday xword (PPPs in 3 clues in one section but I pulled out FIR)
ReplyDeletewashingtonpost.com
Top official with U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigns amid misconduct allegations
Today at 8:21 a.m. EDT
The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to cellphone data that appeared to show he was a regular user of Grindr, the queer dating app, and frequented gay bars.
Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill resigned July 20 as the general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops amid “impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior.”
Some privacy experts said that they couldn’t recall other instances of phone data being de-anonymized and reported publicly, but that it’s not illegal and will likely happen more as people come to understand what data is available about others.
Wilbur or anyone: What's a PPP?
ReplyDeleteThanks.