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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 ~
ReplyDeleteI erred in my final stanza about Zoey yesterday. I mistakenly thought an alternate pronunciation of "limn" could sound as "lime."
Apparently, the only legit pronunciation is the same as "limb."
Knowing that, I have changed the wording in the next-to-last line, which now reads:
If she enters that great race,
and manages to win, to place,
or show, only then can we trace
a reason to embrace
her in a rhyme,
and appropriately limn & hymn
the deeds of her prime.
Thanks for re-reading...
~ OMK
ReplyDelete"Tore the Trump Tuffet (down)"
The lobbyists & liberals fought the tyrant,
even bribing legislators to vote him out.
Together they change the political climate,
costing the "Fuehrer" what's left of his clout.
~ OMK
"Stand-up"
ReplyDeleteThe first time he was offered a bribe
Bobby instantly felt a bad vibe.
He had taken the job as a hobby
and so hadn't expected to lobby
for privileges for his clients.
He now felt a sense of defiance.
So he did what he was taught
and with his new boss he fought.
Bobby was clear and blunt
and told him he was a tyrant--
a charge the boss couldn't ignore
since the brunt of all this he bore.
And so the tyrant retired
and the company a new boss hired
and now Bobby no longer grieved
but felt at peace and relieved.
His workers felt he had done the right thing
and now his praises they sing.
Ol' Man Keith, I saw no problem with your verse yesterday and never caught the pronunciation issue. So very smart and heroic of you to notice it and fix it so beautifully. Many thanks for that.
ReplyDeleteAnd your Tyrant verse today just amazed me: three clues worked into the first line!
Then the rest, with the title rhyming the solution perfectly and yet not a bit obviously.
I wish I could learn to be briefer and cleverer in my own verse, but am still so bound to making those end rhymes use the Jumble words. Maybe one of these days I'll try an adventurous compilation, like yours.
You've really got it, Misty, when you're hot!
ReplyDeleteYour first stanza today is a prime example. It just rolls off the tongue.
I especially like--love!--your "clients"/"defiance" rhyme.
The flow of the second couplet into the third ("to lobby/ for privileges...") is perfection.
~ OMK
Wow! Wow! Ol' Man Keith, you've made my day! You've really made my day! Woohoo! Thank you!
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