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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.
14 comments:
"Teenager"
Our daughter's growth
worries us both.
We worked hard to soothe
her when she had a sore tooth.
She loves to rhyme--
even words like 'enzyme.'
She watches all the news
which does her knowledge infuse
and helps her options to choose.
Sometimes she gets tough
when she's had enough.
But she's mostly benign
which is a good sign
that she'll rise and shine
to her best, all the time.
And so, I and my wife
pray she'll have a good life.
(Yes, I know this verse doesn't star
since I couldn't rhyme 'caviar')
The challenge we all face to work with a set
of prescribed words is surely tough enough
without having to place each one at the end of a 3-beat line.
As admirable a stunt it may sometimes be*,
it predicts, restricts, & stultifies one's verse,
making otherwise brilliant thought emerge the worse.
Misty ~ I feel for you. You are devoted to finding exact or near rhymes for each of the given Jumble words. It works for you sometimes, but it also narrows your formal choices so that you usually find yourself thinking in short line couplets, maybe triplets, one after the other.
I wish sometimes you'd cut yourself free--and not just from sticking these words at the ends of lines, but from thinking in the short waves that couplets apparently require.
Aren't you binding your imagination by keeping to that format?
~ OMK
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* Whenever I want to rhyme "caviar,"
I think of Milton Berle and his, "Har-di-har-Har!"
Erratum.
Please change line 3 of my poem to read:
"...without thrusting each to the end of a 3-beat line."
(Unrhymed blank verse isn't all that tough, so long as one doesn't add unnecessary beats.
This line works well enough as...
anapest, iamb, anapest, anapest, iamb).
~ OMK
Always appreciate your advice, Ol' Man Keith, but find it a bit tougher to follow it, after such a long history of two line verses. But will try to be a little more inventive tomorrow.
P.S. I just read it over again, and I still think it's sweet.
Thanks, Misty.
I just realized, after so many months of rhyming, this is the first time (aside from haiku) I didn't rhyme--until the couplet.
Actually my first time trying blank verse.
~ OMK
WHOOPS!
Sorry, Misty! ~ I think you must have been referring to your own poem, to the couple with the "sore tooth" daughter.
My head was so full of myself, my stupid ego, that I answered about my piece.
My apologies!
~ OMK
Wilbur and Lois return...
[Lois continues her share at Speaker mtg]
With the help of my sponsor. Laurel, I began a period of growth
It all starts with Step One if the answer is "Yes" to 'Have you had enough'?
Before long I noticed a change, I felt infused with hope
No longer mired in despair unable to change, unable to cope.
Faith in a Higher Power helped to soothe the savage beast
I looked forward to meetings and fellowship and my anxiety ceased
The new life and my new faith were caviar to my soul
No longer disjointed, no longer apart I now felt whole
Many friends I found and the surest and best sign of the times
Was my appetite for change as if fueled by spiritual enzymes
WC
OMK, that was Gleason with the hardi-haha
Misty, yes, to tell a story using six unrelated words and a riddle-solution is a challenge. It's made me a stranger this week. But Betsy and Phillip took the dog and it's just me and the birds.
It's ironic that we had Ezra Pound who counseled many 1920s poets and artists to break free from the limits of the 19th century rhyming and meter restraints.
OMK is trying to likewise free you up. Some days you've done that pretty well.
I think I can wrap up the Chet and Lois Story soon much to y'all's relief. Eh?
It's only 745 in Cali so perhaps y'all are still up..
WC
Perhaps another stranger will surface, eh Sandy?
Eh, Wilbur, here I am surfacing, glub, glub, glub. Aah, a breath of air!!
As I've said before, though I wish Lois all the best, I can't help but be grateful that alcohol has no real appeal for me, because I could never rely on faith in a higher power.
Look forward to seeing how you resolve the story.
No problem, OMK, your poem was great!
Wonderful result of Lois's journey, Wilbur, so happy to read it!
Monday, August 16 ==>
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(When the new page shows, I will copy the following over:)
FLN, Wilbur ~ Good to see the resumption of Lois' tale.
It looks like her meeting with Laurel occurred at a truly fortuitous time. Judging from my own experience, the ability to say "Yes" and stick
to it varies from time to time.
I was going to say "from year to year," but it could make as much sense to say "from day to day." My point being that a variety of unconscious factors control that function.
For those who have faith in God, OR have the desire for a personally engaged "higher power," it may be those subtle "factors" can be triggered by psychically deferring to Him--or them. I'm not sure what can align the factors in the rest of us.
But good for Lois. I am glad she was lucky, and her decision had traction.
Hope is a powerful driver, and she knew she was on the right track when she had that feeling of "wholeness."
Yes, Gleason did it, but Berle did it before him. And, come to think of it, Lahr used it somewhere along that timeline.
Must've been a vaudeville standard...
Everybody influences everybody. Pound was a major influencer of Eliot.
Misty ~ Are you my Eliot?
Here's today's Jumble response ~
If you'd like to learn languages, even the national tongue of Latvia, an online service can help.
Try this, for instance, if you want to get...
"Ahead of Lettish:"
Some thought the internet's "Chrome"
was a bit of a fraud.
But it proved a worthy web browser,
deserving of every laud.
That, gentle reader,
shows how we may be blessed--
when a strange new visitor
may prove a welcome guest.
~ OMK
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