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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.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid, I enjoyed the seals that wore little dunce caps & blew tin horns for crowds at the zoo.
They could play little folk songs and...
"Show Tunes on Call"
To train a sea lion to toot a horn,
you have to adopt a patient attitude.
Let him scarf a few sardines & he'll be sworn
your pal. Then he won't revolt, and you'd
find no closer friend. Teach him simple tunes
like "Happy Birthday" & "Willow, Willow!"
You'll see it takes just a few afternoons,
and he'll prove a most talented fellow.
A sea lion is the puppy of the ocean.
He'll show you devotion --
with fervent emotion.
~ OMK
"Supple Couple"
ReplyDeleteThe couple met on a wharf
the day she was wearing a scarf.
Their courtship was careful and slow
and they gave it time to grow.
He had no inclination to bolt
and he knew he would never revolt.
They finally made love on a pillow,
and he proposed to her under a willow.
When they married later that fall
she was once again wearing a shawl.
A year later their marriage they topped
by deciding to adopt.
They now watch their baby crawl
slowly up and down the hall.
Yes, their marriage had occasional bumps
and there were some complaints and grumps.
Still, their union had been a dance,
with family and love and romance.
Today's words led your pair
ReplyDeleteon the usual marital rigamarole,
which is fine so long as they're
happy, with lives made whole.
Good job getting the clue words
in hand--like all those proverbial "birds"!
~ OMK
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PS. Adoption was nice, in that it gave her
a child without any labor!
Hoping your eye doctor visit
ReplyDeletedidn't have you strain at the chart: "What is it?"
~ OMK
(w/ thanks to Ol' Possum...)
A couple of good ones, OMK and Misty. Fln, "self-demanding" is a good way to put it. No pain, no gain. Or... "Half measures availed us nothing" or...
ReplyDelete"Some of us tried an easier, softer way and the result was nil "
Uh oh, those should have been saved for C&L saga. Btw...
There's a lady named Lois, married in the fellowship. I told her about my "Lois" and offered to share my "poetry".
The reaction? Much like Dracula when shown the crucifix.
We five are blessed to have each other
WC
Blessed we ARE, indeed.
ReplyDeleteI think to appreciate our verses, one needs to have faced the struggle, to have grappled with the challenge of the clue words & the need for their inclusion.
That kinda narrows the entryway.
In other words,
Ya had-ta been there!
~ OMK
I too feel thankful to be one of our five, and to have us appreciate that having to work with Jumble words has a serious effect on our poetry. Thank you all.
ReplyDeleteSince I only make occasional comments, it doesn't seem quite fair to you all to count five people contributing. Four people writing poems, right?
ReplyDeleteSandy, one need not poetify. I for one treasure your contributions. They are always well thought out and apropos. In fact I've (we've) missed you.
ReplyDeleteWe definitely need more commenting about the J itself. I had fascia the other day instead of fiasco and was missing a letter to the riddle-solution.
WC
[At a topic meeting another old timer is talking. The topic is 'I tried AA and it didn't work!'
ReplyDeleteYes, many come to AA and scoff. "I can do it on my own will"
Oh, they stay dry for a little while, refusing to adopt any change until
Life clean and sober slows to a crawl; having no fellowship
They revolt and the thought occurs: 'Perhaps just a sip'
WC
Actually, Wilbur, are there any statistics on the percent of people who DO quit drinking on their own. Curious about that.
ReplyDeleteSandy, in the very beginning, 1935, the two founders and the first one hundred after them were classified as "Hopeless" alcoholics. Generally people who could periodically "get" sober but couldn't STAY sober.
ReplyDeleteNow I have a friend who got sober in AA for two years, left AA for 35 and has been attending meetings since 2016. He says the 35 years were hell, the last 4 or 5 the happiest ever.
WC
I should think it difficult to track personal records in AA.
ReplyDeleteI guess not everybody who starts the program registers officially with the organization, and I imagine there are various degrees of addiction involved--and for quite different combinations of physical & psychological factors.
~ OMK
Sandy, you're definitely one of us, more-so than meem lately. I'm glad to do the administrative stuff to keep the blog going every day, but only been contributing poems sparsely, and seldom add to discussions since I often don't read the blog over until the end of the day.
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